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* In ''[[Mr. and Mrs. Smith]]'', at the start of the film, [[Brad Pitt]] and [[Angelina Jolie]]'s characters claim that they met in Bogota, Colombia. Flashback to said moment, and they show Bogota, a real-life big metropoly city with a very cold climate, portrayed as a small river-side town where sun always shine, people listen to flamenco music and there's no need for clothes. To make things worse, a soldier speaks with a heavy Mexican accent. Even the actors said that they've never been to Bogota, or Colombia, for that matter. Colombians were ''so'' not happy.
* In ''[[Entrapment]]'', the protagonists head off to Malaysia to carry out a heist in the Petronas Towers at Kuala Lumpur. The movie portrays rural, ramshackle slums with open views onto the fabulous towers themselves. Kuala Lumpur looks [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/KL-Skyline_Night_HDR.JPG like this].
* In ''[[X-Men: First Class|X Men First Class]]'' there's a scene where Magneto kills some bad guys that supposedly takes place in the Argentinian city of Villa Gesell. The establishing shot shows snowy mountains and a beautiful lake surrounded by hills, the only problem is, although you can find a lot of cities that look like that in the southern part of the country, the real Villa Gesell is a beach city located nowhere near that area.
* In ''[[All the President's Men|All the Presidents Men]]'', Woodward and Bernstein's car seems to teleport around [[Washington DC]], from shot to shot, at random.
* ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s once[http://www.cracked.com/article_19168_6-myths-about-famous-places-you-believe-thanks-to-movies.html ran6 anMyths articleAbout thatFamous Places You Believe (Thanks to Movies)] pointedpoints out several common artistic licenses shown in film, such as stereotypically, Australia being shown as being unmercifully hot all year round, or anything taking place in Australia usually taking place in the summer, despite Australia getting its fair share of snow (and more), or Russia being depicted as being constantly snowy, usually having at least a somewhat thick coating of snow on the ground, no matter when the story is taking place, although usually being shown in the winter. Also, Washington D.C. will often be depicted as a colossal metropolis with as many skyscrapers as many other very large cities, despite the fact that Washington has no true buildings taller than sixteen stories.
** To be fair, a large part of Australia is devoid of snow, and discernable seasons. Anything towards the north of the country has only 2 seasons - Wet and Dry. Then again, most films are set in or near the cities in the south. So perhaps the most realistic depiction of the country comes from ''[[The Matrix]]'', which uses Sydney as a random city somewhere in the world.
** The parts of DC with skyscrapers could theoretically be Arlington, Virginia, right across the river, which does have a [[wikipedia:Rosslyn, VA|traditional (if smallish) skyline]].
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