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Chinatown When Los Angeles private investigator Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) is hired by a faux Evelyn Mulwray to investigate her husband's suspicious activities, Gittes believes it's a simple case of dishonesty. However, Jake's investigation soon becomes everything but simple when he meets the real Mrs. Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) and realizes he was hired by a fraud. Mr. Mulwray's sudden death sets Gittes a trail of scandalous intentions, deceit and family secrets as Evelyn's father (John Huston) becomes

and it exists in the form of a Film Noir movie. Chinatown is a film from 1974, directed by Roman Polanski and written by Robert Towne. Chinatown is a story about truth and misinformation, with heavy themes of mystery and ultimately tragedy. With Jack Nicholson as Detective J.J. Gittes and Faye Dunaway as Evelyn Mulwray starring in the film the characters in Chinatown are especially memorable. As a whole, Chinatown is a prime example of a movie from the Film Noir genre and is proven to be a well-liked

remake of the film Internal Affairs. The film is about two Boston men Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) who infiltrate each other’s worlds in order to take down or protect the organized crime leader Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson). Both men are put in a world where they desperately want to get out and struggle trying to maintain the facades they have to portray. The award winning director Martin Scorsese once again constructs a masterpiece that incorporates several examples

situations. The film, A Few Good Men, directly explored and elaborated upon this topic. This movie features characters such as Lt. Daniel Kaffee, Lt. Cmdr. Joanne Galloway, Capt. Jack Ross, LTJG Sam Weinberg, and Colonel Nathan R. Jessep who were played by: Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Pollak, and Jack Nicholson respectively. Directed by Rob Reiner, this film centered around the court case of Lance Corporal Dawson and Private First Class Downey when they supposedly acted upon orders in

Modern motion pictures use the same genre, but updated visual, theme and content. Neo-noir, Greek term neo means new, making term new black. Noir movies are very popular among the audiences. Chinatown (1974) directed by Roman Polanski, starring Jack Nicholson (Protagonist) as Jake Gittes, Faye Dunaway (Co-actor) as Eve Mulwray and John Huston (Antagonist) as Noah cross is a successful Academy award winning popular neo-noir movie of 1970s. On the other hand The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) directed

guy” is a criminal, with the exceptions coming from Chinatown and Michael Clayton. The major difference between these movies comes from the protagonists in each, a private detective and lawyer/ fixer respectively (even both the actors are great, Jack Nicholson and George Clooney, wow). The film shows two major themes within this area. The first is corruption within normally trusted entities and the second is ignorance in the pursuit of justice. While both the L.A. Water Department and Jake Gittes see

and didn’t know what they were doing. I often wondered what that must be like. I, being a very passive person, have never lost control when I’ve become angered. I’ve always had total awareness of my situation. In the movie “Anger Management”, Jack Nicholson so nicely stated: “Your temper is the one thing you can’t get rid of by loosing it” I’ve probably come close at times, but never gone over the edge to uncontrollable rage. I remember there was one time it came close. It happened one late Sunday

Chinatown This week's movie is Chinatown by Roman Polanski. This movie in short follows this private investigator J.J. Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) who is hired by the wife of the chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. At first, the person who hires him is a facade to the real wife of the chief engineer. The original intentional for hiring him was to find out if the chief engineer was having an extramarital affairs with someone else; he was not. As time goes on, the plot

Damon), is paralleled and intertwined with that of an opposing character, William Costigan Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio). Colin Sullivan, raised in a poor Irish neighborhood of South Boston and trained to become a mole for Irish mobster Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) after his acceptance into the Massachusetts State Police, not only must pretend to flush out the suspected mole on the force (himself), he must also find the opposing infiltrator (Costigan Jr.) which the State Police have planted in Costello’s

This week's movie is Chinatown by Roman Polanski. This movie in short follows this private investigator J.J. Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) who is hired by the wife of the chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. At first, the person who hires him is a facade to the real wife of the chief engineer. The original intentional for hiring him was to find out if the chief engineer was having an extramarital affairs with someone else; he was not. As time goes on, the plot thickens