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Chinatown: Screenplay (FF Classics) [Paperback]

Robert Towne
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (21 Feb 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571202241
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571202249
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11.2 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 154,460 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1930s Los Angeles. Jake Gittes is a successful 'bedroom dick': a private eye specialising in cases of marital infidelity. Paradoxically he might also be the last truly ethical man in a corrupt town. Lured into an investigation of the death-by-drowning of City Water Commissioner Hollis Mulwray, Gittes gets more than usually entwined with his new client, Mulwray's enigmatic widow Evelyn. He then finds himself crossing swords with Evelyn's redoubtable father, the aging business magnate Noah Cross, who has professional and personal reasons of his own for wanting both Hollis and Evelyn silenced.

Academy Award-winner for Best Original Screenplay of 1974, Robert Towne's Chinatown is widely regarded as the finest American movie script of the post-war years. Complex in narrative design, infused with the sordid real-life history of Los Angeles' economic growth and unmistakably adult in its updating of the trademark violence and sexual intrigue of film noir, on the page Chinatown still shines - and cuts - like a blade.


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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Robert Towne's script for Chinatown is one of the best screenplays ever writen and as such it is very sad indeed that Faber have done such a poor job of keeping the proper format of the script.

Many of the actions and the scene descriptions have in error been formatted as scene headings making reading the screenplay in this edition much of a guessing game.
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If you like the film, and you write a bit, you'll love this. I like having the small 'pocket-size' screenplays around to remind you how it's done. Better than a hundred-page print-out from some script you found on the net. If you haven't seen the film, read this first, and then watch Nicholson's masterful performance, especially the nose/knife thing...
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Chinatown is quite simply one of the finest screenplays ever written. Budding screenplay writers should read and learn from one of the true masters.
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