Chase Scene in the Downtown LA Artwalk

People who live downtown hate the Downtown LA Artwalk.  The art is terrible.  The traffic gets super-snarled.  All sorts of people from outlying areas come in to drink and puke and piss.

The Artwalk is a nuisance—the two-headed, crackbaby love-child of urban renewal.

But it’s also becoming an institution—as much a fixture on the downtown landscape as used condoms and cigarette butts.

So, I want a chase scene that happens in the middle of the Artwalk.  My protagonist is going to have to abandon his car and it becomes a foot chase.  There will be all sorts of colorful things to describe:  food trucks, stalls, kiosks, galleries, bars, etcetera.  They are local color, obstacle course, maze.

Now all I have to figure out is who is he chasing?  And is he chasing the right guy?

Crowd at LA Downtown Artwalk

2 thoughts on “Chase Scene in the Downtown LA Artwalk

  1. I love this idea: it makes me laugh, but it works as much more than a joke. I could definitely see a truly suspenseful chase scene taking place at Artwalk, not to mention the multiple opportunities for you to include meta-commentary through the art that forms the “backdrop” of the chase itself.

    • I remember being in a building in the middle of art walk in an elevator with a very striking woman and her punk rock chihuahua (yes, it was wearing a tutu). I was talking to a friend and mentioned that artwalk was about to happen. Suddenly this woman said “fuck, it’s artwalk” and I could tell that she wanted to cry. She knew she was stuck in for the evening. Even her chihuahua looked heartbroken.

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