Editing L.A. Confidential (film) (section)

===Principal photography===
[[File:501 N Wilcox, Los Angeles 2.jpg|thumb|Lynn Bracken's house. 501 N. Wilcox Ave., Los Angeles]]
Hanson did not want the film to be an exercise in nostalgia, and so had Spinotti shoot it like a contemporary film, and used more naturalistic lighting than in a classic film noir.<ref name= "taubin">{{cite news
 | last = Taubin
 | first = Amy
 | title = Confidentially Speaking: Curtis Hanson Makes a Studio-Indie Hybrid
 | work = [[The Village Voice]]
 | date = September 23, 1997
 }}</ref> He told Spinotti and the film's production designer [[Jeannine Oppewall]] to pay great attention to period detail, but to then "put it all in the background".<ref name= "amy"/> ''L.A. Confidential'' was shot at the [[Linda Vista Community Hospital]] in the Los Angeles area.<ref name="npr">{{cite web|title=For Location Scouts, It's All About Making The Scene|url=https://www.npr.org/2011/02/25/134032333/for-location-scouts-its-all-about-making-the-scene|work=[[NPR]]|date=February 25, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/l/laconf.html|title=Film locations for L.A. Confidential|publisher=Movie Locations|date=2015-10-30|access-date=2015-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130005432/http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/l/laconf.html|archive-date=2012-01-30|url-status=dead}}</ref> Several famous Hollywood landmarks appropriate to the 1950s were used, including the [[Formosa Cafe]] in [[West Hollywood]], the Frolic Room on [[Hollywood Boulevard]], and the [[Crossroads of the World]], an outdoor shopping mall dressed as a movie theatre where the premiere of ''[[When Worlds Collide (1951 film)|When Worlds Collide]]'' takes place at the beginning of the film.<ref name="Chris Eggertson">{{cite web| url=https://la.curbed.com/maps/la-confidential-movie-kim-basinger|title='L.A. Confidential': The ultimate filming locations map| author=Chris Eggertson| publisher=la.curbed.com| date=2017-09-29| access-date=2018-03-07}}</ref>

Patchett's home is the [[Lovell House]], a famous [[International Style (architecture)|International Style]] mansion designed by [[Richard Neutra]]. Bracken's house is at 501 Wilcox Avenue in the affluent [[Hancock Park]] neighborhood, overlooking the Wilshire Country Club.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/scene-lynn-brackens-house-l-confidential/| title=Scene It Before: Lynn Bracken's House From L.A. Confidential| author=Lindsay Blake| publisher=Los Angeles Magazine| date=2014-11-13| access-date=2018-03-07}}</ref> The house required a $75,000 renovation to transform it into the Spanish-style home described in the script.<ref name="Chris Eggertson"/> Historic [[Central Los Angeles]] neighborhoods were used for the scenes in which the police hunt down the Nite Owl suspects, including [[Angelino Heights]], [[Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles|Lincoln Heights]], and [[Koreatown, Los Angeles|Koreatown]].<ref name="Chris Eggertson"/> The Victory Motel was one of the only purpose-built sets, constructed on a flat stretch of the [[Inglewood Oil Field]] in [[Culver City, California|Culver City]].<ref name="Chris Eggertson"/>