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Many may remember the Georgetown Metro stop that was featured in the 1987 film No Way Out. Kevin Costner’s character eluded some nasty folks by hiding out in the Georgetown metro stop – that doesn’t actually exist.
Well, it seems that Penn Quarter is about to go down in similar truth-bending movie history. According to Nikki Schwab at the Washington Examiner, the movie Salt (in theaters starting Friday, July 23) will feature a Penn Quarter shopping mall. We know what you are thinking, but, no, this isn’t a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Gallery Place complex.
In the scene, Angelina Jolie, runs into the Archives metro station to elude some pursuers. Apparently, another character explains that Jolie “ran into the Penn Quarter shopping mall.” The actual mall that is displayed is the underground L’Enfant Plaza shopping area. Jolie then surfaces at the L’Enfant metro station without ever boarding a train.
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Was the PQ Mall full of unruly teens screaming, pushing, fighting, littering and shouting obscenities without a parent in sight?
I am so glad JPQ wrote about True Lies – for the life of me, I could not rememeber the name of the movie, but I immediately thought of it and remembered laughing when I saw it.
I would almost guess that every Hollywood movie shot in DC has taken liberties at the town’s geography. I remember a movie – I think it was called Network — filmed at 1001 Pa. Ave. before all the office space was occupied. The office space in the film was made to look pretty grungy; I knew exactly where it was when a character looked out the window at the Old Post Office building. 1001 was never hardly a grugy C class office building!
Urbaniste–I think you’re recalling Broadcast News. Just saw it the other night and I notice the area.
If I didnt know any better I would think the way which DC residents obsess about incorrect movie scenes in DC was based on pride in ones hometown. Do people in New York, or any other city in the world nitpick over every movie that is set their city the way DC residents do? The first couple of times I witnessed this phenomenon I agreed, and yeah the continuity folks associated with these movies should be fired. But EVERY movie? really? Does the Post style section and every other media outlet have to obsess about every movie based here that isnt geographically perfect? Is our inferiority complex as hollywood for ugly people really that bad?
Two that really tick me off:
The Girl Next Door- the kid gets into Georgetown, and at the end, is shown at some school that looks all suburban and new and nothing like Gtown.
In the newest Die Hard, it was supposed to be in DC, but then it shows all these helicopters flying amongst skyscrapers, which we clearly don’t have…
I agree tho that the True Lies scene is awesome.
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My favorite “DC” scene is near the beginning of True Lies, where Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character commandeers a police horse outside Georgetown Park Mall, rides through Franklin Square park, and ends up on the roof of a 30-story hotel, all in about 30 seconds.
Can’t wait for Salt!