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1. www.bbc.com › culture › articleChinatown: The real-life California scandal that inspired the ...

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   Jun 21, 2024 · Chinatown begins with a quintessential film noir set-up. In 1930s Los Angeles, private detective JJ Gittes (Nicholson) is hired by a woman who goes by the name of Evelyn Mulwray to prove her...

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2. screenrant.com › chinatown-real-story-californiaChinatown: The Real Story That Inspired The Movie - Screen Rant

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   Sep 26, 2020 · The 1974 Jack Nicholson vehicle Chinatown is one of the great sun-bleached neo-noirs, but did you ever wonder what inspired the seventies classic? Roman Polanski's bleak, brutal Chinatown is infamous for its grim, hopeless coda.

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4. www.looper.com › 398463The Ending Of Chinatown Explained - Looper

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   May 3, 2021 · He's a former LAPD officer who used to work Chinatown before he quit to become a P.I. — the movie never explains why he left, but it's implied that he was opposed to police corruption.

5. www.slashfilm.com › 790422Chinatown Ending Explained: Forget It, Jake - /Film

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   Mar 7, 2022 · Private investigator J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) becomes embroiled in life of Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway), the wife of the head of the Los Angeles Water and Power Department and daughter of her...

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6. screenrant.com › chinatown-ending-explainedChinatown Ending Explained - Screen Rant

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   Jan 20, 2023 · The ending of Chinatown sees Jake Gittes piecing together the web of conspiracy weaved by Noah Cross (John Huston). Jake discovers it was Cross who murdered Hollis Mulwray (Darrell Zwerling) and was also responsible for the death of Ida Sessions.

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7. collider.com › chinatown-original-ending-robert-towneRobert Towne Discusses 'Chinatown's Original Ending and How ...

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   Jun 18, 2024 · The title was always Chinatown. The heart of Jake Gittes’ problems, and the reason he left the police force, was because of what happened a decade earlier in Chinatown.

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   What happened in Chinatown?

   • In Chinatown, the water department, under the influence of Cross, is behind a plan to secretly dump water from a vital reservoir in the San Fernando valley at night during a drought, so that the local agricultural land becomes unusable, and is devalued – allowing the department and Cross to buy it off cheaply from those forced out.

   Chinatown: The real-life California scandal that inspired the ... - BBC

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   Is Chinatown a tragedy?

   • Chinatown is a tragedy at heart and explores themes of corruption, futility, and the darkness of human nature. One of the movies that helped launch Jack Nicholson's career, 1974's Chinatown has a stunningly dark ending that still has the power to shock.

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   How does Chinatown start?

   • Chinatown begins with a quintessential film noir set-up. In 1930s Los Angeles, private detective JJ Gittes (Nicholson) is hired by a woman who goes by the name of Evelyn Mulwray to prove her husband's infidelity.

   Chinatown: The real-life California scandal that inspired the ... - BBC

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   Why is Chinatown a bleak ending?

   • Keeping in tradition with the American New Wave movement, Chinatown's bleak ending is a broad statement about the futility of fighting corrupt institutions, and it reflected the political landscape of the 1970s. Despite being set in the 1930s, the ending of Chinatown was about modern issues.

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   Why does Jake 'forget it's Chinatown'?

   • After witnessing the cold-blooded murder of Evelyn and seeing Katherine taken by Cross, Jake is told to "forget it...it's Chinatown," to which he can only blink in horror. One of the best movie ending scenes in history, its iconic quote also explains the movie's ending.

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   Does Chinatown have a dark ending?

   • One of the movies that helped launch Jack Nicholson's career, 1974's Chinatown has a stunningly dark ending that still has the power to shock. Directed by Roman Polanski and written by Robert Towne, Chinatown offers a unique spin on the detective stories of the 1940s, giving it a much darker twist than movies of the era would ever allow.

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9. angelusnews.com › arts-culture › 50-years-chinatown-la50 years after ‘Chinatown,’ LA still suffers from the same ...

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   Jan 30, 2024 · 50 years after ‘Chinatown,’ LA still suffers from the same identity crisis. Joseph Joyce. Jan 30, 2024 • 4 Min Read. Jack Nicholson in “Chinatown.” (IMDB) To explain his theory of relativity, Albert Einstein pointed out that sitting on a hot stove for five minutes feels like an hour, but sitting next to a pretty girl for an hour feels ...