![]() It's here on East 5th Street that a mysterious crossbow killer appears, quickly dispatches ‘Happy’ and roars away on her bike. This entrance to Indian faces the GM Hoff Building, East 5th Street, a historic property seen in Martin Brest’s 1988 Midnight Run, with Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin, in Francis Lawrence's 2005 supernatural thriller Constantine, with Keanu Reeves, and in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. Indian Alley has appeared in several movies, including 1973’s The Sting, with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, as well as such classic TV cop shows as Starsky & Hutch, Baretta, and Quincy ME. That history is now recognised in the Alley’s murals and colourful street art. Predictably, the results weren’t always as positive as had been intended. It was a gathering place for homeless Native Americans flocking to the city after the 1956 Indian Relocation Act, intended to ‘encourage’ Native people to leave reservations and ‘assimilate’ into cities. The stretch of Werdin Place, north from 5th to Winston Street, is called Indian Alley. Narrowly giving everyone the slip, Harley sneaks out of the back entrance of a store only to run smack into someone else bearing a grudge – ‘Happy’, the man whose face had been tattooed by Mr J.Īnother of LA's little alleyways, this is Werdin Place at East 5th Street, about a block to the west. This includes the brother of the animal dealer Harley fed to her hyena, with whom she suddenly comes face to face.ĭiving for safety into the rear of Wall Street Wholesale indoor market, she emerges from the front onto Wall Street, where she meets the former driver whose legs she broke, loses her egg sandwich and faces hyena-man’s van barrelling along the road towards her. Now news has spread that Harley is no longer under the protection of the Clown Prince of Crime, plenty of people feel free to settle old scores. It’s not only Montoya that’s on her case. In fact, two blocks east, the corner of Ord Street and Spring Street was used for the final scene of Roman Polanski’s Chinatown, though it has changed quite a bit,īirds Of Prey film location: Harley Quinn dives into the bustling market: Lucky Ave, Winston Street, Los Angeles | Photograph: Google Mapsįrom here she makes a quick right into a crowded outdoor market, pausing only to pick up a dinky little handbag that catches her eye. This is Phoenix Inn Chinese Food, 301 Ord Street at the corner of New High Street in LA’s Chinatown, just north of the Downtown area. Having broken up with ‘Mr J’ (there seems to be some problem with the use of the name Joker), Harley Quinn ( Margot Robbie) gets a space of her own, with Bruce the hyena and a stuffed beaver in a pink tutu, with a room above ‘Doc’s Place’, a corner takeaway in Gotham’s Chinatown. ![]() Despite some impressive CGI tweaking (which probably goes unnoticed), the setting never really feels like anything other than Downtown Los Angeles, particularly since there are some quite familiar locations. Suicide Squad was filmed around central Toronto, and the idea from moving from Gotham’s centre to the Outer Boroughs is interesting, but ended up pre-empted by Todd Phillips’ ultra-grim setting for Joker. ![]() It comes as a surprise each time ‘Gotham City’ is name-checked in Cathy Yan's Birds Of Prey as there’s nothing traditional about this brightly-coloured, sun-drenched Gotham. Meanwhile stay safe and travel the world online. We apologise and, as soon as travel restrictions are lifted, will return to posting original photographs. * During the current situation, we're relying more than usual on Google Maps images.
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