Sloppy

Students of film, film historians, are sloppy. One example of several. On the glorious :| 50th anniversary of Chinatown some guy wrote of the many scenes of Los Angeles in the movie. Where Gittes first espied and photographed Hollis Mulwray and his assumed young lover was MacArthur Park, this guy intoned.

No reason to doubt him, he knows L.A., I don't. I took it as the truth.

Then today, rewatching the film I heard the character Gittes appears to be filming say on the phone to Gittes that he was in Echo Park where he saw Mulwray (in background rowboat) with the young woman. Didn't mean anything to me, they change the names of places all the time in movies. So I looked up MacArthur Park bridge.

Which that does not look like the bridge in the film.

There is no fucking googly poogly image of "MacArthur Park bridge" that looks remotely like the one depicted in the film.

So, I googled Echo Park. It was a real name.

Look at that, "The Bridge" with a rowboat and everything. The bridge in the film is not of identical construction to that Echo Park bridge, captioned "1900's" but it's a damn sight closer than the massive concrete tunnel bridge in MacArthur Park!🎵MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down🎵. Lay off the LSD when you're writing, smart guy.