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Much of “The Annihilation of Fish” takes place in and around the boarding house, but Burnett and cinematographer John Njaga Demps occasionally take the couple out into Echo Park as they go for a walk or ride a paddleboat, the gentle hum of a vibrant city in the background.

We rented a swan paddleboat on a picturesque day when we could see the downtown L.A. skyline with great clarity in the distance, with the water and fellow swan boats in the foreground.

If you watch a Keaton movie now, you’ll be astonished at the level of his daredevilry — flinging himself from rooftops, leaping on and off speeding cars and trains and paddleboat wheels, diving through windows, rolling down hillsides.

As for the murder, “Nile,” like the paddleboat it’s set on, takes its sweet time getting there.

According to the Conroe Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Lake Conroe Queen is a 60-passenger, double-deck sternwheeler paddleboat.