Please click the link
to read my review of The Kid Stays in the Picture (Chinatown was one of
producer Robert Evans’ biggest successes).
Synopsis: Sleazy
gumshoe sticks his heavily-bandaged nose into some weird family business.
Blurb From the VHS
Jacket: “This sinister son of film noir is one of the most meticulously
crafted Hollywood films in many years. Everyone involved collaborated to
re-create for contemporary tastes this disillusioned vision of seedy,
sunkissed, pre-war Southern California.”
What Did I Learn?:
1) Nosy fellows lose their noses. 2) Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores
all get respectable if they last long enough.
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Movie If: You know that bad things can take place in Chinatown.
Really?: 1) Hold
on – Noah Cross is one of the richest and most powerful men in California, and
he just had to bang his own daughter? Ok, maybe he’s just a fucked-up weirdo,
but if he’s into very young girls, I would think he could have found other
alternatives. 2) I can understand Jake wearing nice suits at the office to
impress his clients, but the movie takes place in Southern California during a
drought, and Jakes spends a lot of time outdoors. Gee, there’s nothing I enjoy
more on a hot day than wearing a lot of dark wool.
Rating: Roman
Polanski’s Chinatown is rightly
considered to be a masterpiece of modern cinema. The storyline is compelling (Chinatown’s script has long been used as
an example of a model screenplay) and Jack Nicholson is at the top of his game
as Jake Gittes. Interestingly, the movie also works well as a period piece – it
looks and feels like a 1930s/1940s Raymond Chandler detective story (although it was
written by Robert Towne). Highly recommended. 10/10 stars.
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