Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
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- makdelart19. mars 2026The film lacks flashy spectacle, but it features a rather complex plot, a convoluted mystery, a distinctive detective character, crimes, corruption and a femme fatale – all typical hallmarks of film noir. On top of that, there’s an unexpected twist and a dramatic conclusion. Jerry Goldsmith’s beautiful score also adds to the atmosphere. A masterful film by Polanski, further enhanced by his own memorable cameo appearance.
- ርልዪረ14. september 2025Chinatown. Every major city has a geographically distinct, alien, bustling, simmering and chaotic Chinatown where those who belong - the assimilated, the ones from the proverbial all-American, culturally sanitized suburbs go to spend tourist time on Sundays or date nights to sample the exotic food, the culture and the chaos, bringing home whatever local color they didn't absorb on their sojourn into take-out containers. Whatever nefarious behaviors go on there happen because it's "only Chinatown." Murder, mayhem, drug-deals, opium dens, graft and gambling...the bleak underbelly stuff of a non-assimilated culture left to their own justice by the mainstream...the police put these in the unsolved file. Jake Gittes - played by Jack Nicholson - is a born hero, who wants to wear a white hat but a corrupt police dept. won't let him so he becomes a PI in order to have some integrity, even if he becomes a snoop for jealous spouses. Fueling the infamous Los Angeles water wars, the impresario of graft - Noah Cross, a composite of real-life entrepreneur Mulholland and others guilty of robbing the city blind to feather their own bankbooks - also thinks he can bypass the fundamental laws of nature to groom his own daughter and grand daughter for self-gratifying incestuous relationships. Faye Dunaway plays the hapless heroine Evelyn who married Cross' kind business party Hollis Mulwray to escape her father's clutches and when her husband, the Water Commissioner is killed because of ethical conflicts with Cross over diversion of water from the desert to Cross' lands to enhance his wealth, it sets off a hunt by police as to who did it. Enter Jake Gittes, conned by a fake Evelyn Mulwray planted by Cross into investigating where all the water is going. The plot all climaxes in a torrent of bullets and screams and blood in Chinatown, where crime gets buried as the price of living in the undesirable leftover parts of LA. The police execute manslaughter for Cross who owns them and Dunaway's heroine, trying to escape with her daughter born of her own father, takes the hit. A brilliant, haunting film-noir score by Jerry Goldsmith and poignant artwork on the movie poster capture the pathos of a script written by Robert Towne, a 70s wunderkind (who along with producer Bob Evans was so instrumental in Paramount's renaissance, thanks to the Godfather 1 and 2). This Los Angeles is a burgeoning, flourishing America, a dream of what some people could have that once was but always is as we live in it today...where the good guys give up while the bad guys destroy beauty and innocence to satisfy their own greed and narcissism. The bones of contention today aren't the orange and lemon groves and vineyards and lettuce, strawberry, almond and avocado fields that yield billions in profit, but instead the computers and high tech and environmental and transportation boondoggles. That cuts across the board to all cultures, not just the Anglos. Maybe that's why Chinatown is timeless -because greed is.
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Chinatown ble utgitt 20. juni 1974.
Chinatown ble regissert av Roman Polanski.
Chinatown har en spilletid på 2t, 10m.
Chinatown ble produsert av Robert Evans.
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
Hovedpersonene i Chinatown er J.J. 'Jake' Gittes (Jack Nicholson), Evelyn Cross Mulwray (Faye Dunaway), Noah Cross (John Huston).
Chinatown har aldersgrensen R.
Chinatown er en Crime, Drama, Mystery.
Chinatown har en publikumsvurdering på 9.3 av 10.
Chinatown hadde et budsjett på USD 6 mill..
Chinatown har tjent USD 30 mill. på kino.