It’s only a movie! That’s what you tell yourself when Hollywood puts Washington on the screen and bungles the geography. “Salt” spent several days filming here last year and achieves a decent Beltway verisimilitude. Sure, you groan when Angelina Jolie orders a cabbie to “U Street,” then alights at her Kalorama-like home. Or when she leaps from the L’Enfant Promenade overpass and Chiwetel Ejiofor shouts, “She’s heading south on Route 1!” (It’s 395, man.)
They’re minor flubs compared with Jolie exiting her apartment building at a corner marked Sixth and Indiana. No way! In real life, that’s the wide-open intersection shared by the D.C. Superior Court and an Au Bon Pain. Why change the signs? Turns out the neighborhood scene wasn’t shot in Washington at all, we learned from Josh Friedman of the D.C. Film Office — but in New York. It just looked Kalorama-ish. The street signs apparently were added to make sense of the next scene, when Jolie runs into the Archives Metro station, near the real Sixth and Indiana. Or something like that.
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