This was because the noted authorSyd Field usedChinatownas a major example in his bookScreenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting.
Mulhollands life and Mulwray’s character mirrored each other in significant ways.
The dam break discussed early inChinatownbrought to mind the real St. Francis Dam disaster of March 12, 1928.
In a 2007 interview withMTV News,Nicholson discussed the canceled third film.
He said they always planned on making three films that were to be tied to elemental things.
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Chinatown is a 1974 neo-noir film featuring Jack Nicholson as private investigator Jake Gittes. Tasked with investigating an alleged extramarital affair in pre-World War II Southern California, Gittes is drawn into a complex web of duplicity, unraveling a series of intertwined personal and political scandals.
