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Chinatown

  • 1974
  • 16
  • 2 Std. 10 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
8,1/10
368.118
IHRE BEWERTUNG
BELIEBTHEIT
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Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway in Chinatown (1974)
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  • Regie
    • Roman Polanski
  • Drehbuch
    • Robert Towne
    • Roman Polanski
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Jack Nicholson
    • Faye Dunaway
    • John Huston
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  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    8,1/10
    368.118
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    BELIEBTHEIT
    1.063
    259
    • Regie
      • Roman Polanski
    • Drehbuch
      • Robert Towne
      • Roman Polanski
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Jack Nicholson
      • Faye Dunaway
      • John Huston
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    • 92Metascore
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
  • Am besten bewerteter Film #166
    • 1 Oscar gewonnen
      • 21 Gewinne & 24 Nominierungen insgesamt

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    Jack Nicholson
    Jack Nicholson
    • J.J. Gittes
    Faye Dunaway
    Faye Dunaway
    • Evelyn Mulwray
    John Huston
    John Huston
    • Noah Cross
    Perry Lopez
    Perry Lopez
    • Escobar
    John Hillerman
    John Hillerman
    • Yelburton
    Darrell Zwerling
    Darrell Zwerling
    • Hollis Mulwray
    Diane Ladd
    Diane Ladd
    • Ida Sessions
    Roy Jenson
    Roy Jenson
    • Mulvihill
    Roman Polanski
    Roman Polanski
    • Man with Knife
    Richard Bakalyan
    Richard Bakalyan
    • Loach
    • (as Dick Bakalyan)
    Joe Mantell
    Joe Mantell
    • Walsh
    Bruce Glover
    Bruce Glover
    • Duffy
    Nandu Hinds
    Nandu Hinds
    • Sophie
    James O'Rear
    • Lawyer
    • (as James O'Reare)
    James Hong
    James Hong
    • Evelyn's Butler
    Beulah Quo
    • Maid
    Jerry Fujikawa
    Jerry Fujikawa
    • Gardener
    Belinda Palmer
    Belinda Palmer
    • Katherine
    • Regie
      • Roman Polanski
    • Drehbuch
      • Robert Towne
      • Roman Polanski
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    Zusammenfassung

    Reviewers say 'Chinatown' is acclaimed for Roman Polanski's direction, Robert Towne's screenplay, and standout performances by Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. The film is lauded for its intricate plot, atmospheric cinematography, and reinterpretation of film noir. However, some critics find the pacing slow and the ending controversial or unsatisfying. Despite mixed opinions on certain elements, 'Chinatown' is generally regarded as a significant and influential work, noted for its exploration of corruption, moral ambiguity, and complex characters.
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    10Hitchcoc

    Forget It Jake, It's Chinatown

    This is a top ten for me. I have watched this film several times, and each time I see why Jack Nicholson is one of our great American actors. It starts with a story of complexity but accessibility. Nicholson's Jake Gittes, running around with a slit in the side of his nose, put there by Polanski, investigates, gets careless, and realizes what he has stumbled upon. Fay Dunaway as Mrs. Mulray and John Huston and that voice: "Just find the girl." There are comic scenes and Nicholson has feet of clay, but he finally puts his personal integrity on the line. He moves into darkness and sees the underside. And then there is Chinatown with its secrets, politics, incest, all of that. It is such an intelligent movies. One of the reviewers said it was compact. That says it all. Every scene is necessary. It's too bad Polanski can't work in the U.S. anymore--he still releases a treasures every so often. To get back to the movie, all that leads to the climactic last several minutes has been prepared for with loving care by the director. It's so nice to know that there are films like this that people will watch into the latter stages of the 21st century. One of finest.
    10rmax304823

    Marvelous

    There is a word, impossible to spell, that describes the alignment of solar bodies like the planets when they all fall into place together. A similar word would describe this film. Everything about it is right. Polanski never directed a better movie. The performers, down to the lowest atmosphere person, are superb. The editing, the score, the sound, the decor, the dialog, all are just about flawless. The photography is peerless. The white garden apartments, the terra cotta roof tiles, the palms and desert sand are all painted with a faint gold, faintly ripe with false promise, like the oranges that bounce from Gittes' desperately speeding car in the northwest Valley.

    Polanski deserves much of the credit. When Gittes surprises Evelyn Mulwray in her car, after he follows her to her daughter's house, her face slumps forward and beeps the horn briefly. Then, so faintly, we hear a few dogs bark in the background. Not only is the scene itself exquisitely done but it prefigures the ending, as does Gittes' remark earlier to Evelyn that she has a flaw in her iris. The movie is too good to deserve much dissecting. It stands repeated watching. If there is anything wrong with it, it is the serious and tragic ending that Polanski always insists on tacking on. Robert Towne was right and Polanski wrong in this case. Everything came together on this film. It's not only the best detective movie ever made; it's one of the best movies ever made -- period. A marvelous job by everyone concerned.

    I have to add (6/27/05) that the word I mentioned in the first sentence is spelled "syzygy." Man, did I get enlightening email on that. I might as well add two other impressive features of this movie. (1) Polanksi takes his time. Example: Gittes sneaks into Hollis Mulwray's office and begins to go through the drawers of his old-fashioned wooden desk. As he slides each drawer out, Polanksi gives us a shot of their humdrum contents (checkbooks, magnifying glass, and so forth) and we can almost smell the heat and the odor of shellac and sawdust emanating from the wooden containers. The contents reveal nothing of importance in this case. But (2) sometimes irrelevant information crops up that resonates later in the film with its own echo. The detail might be just a word ("applecore") or an ordinary object (a pair of spectacles found in a pond, immediately after Gittes imitates the Japanese gardener's remark that the water is bad for the "glass.") Some of the references may be so consistent as to constitute a theme (water). None of this hits you over the head with its significance. It's all very neatly stitched together.
    BlackJack_B

    Gittes gits it done.

    Truly deserving of its title as one of the greatest films of all time, Chinatown delivers in spades. Everything about the film shines, and it looks better now than it probably did in 1974; of course, there's a lot of junk in the theaters these days. Acting, cinematography, script, atmosphere, it's all 10s baby. The story of a struggling P.I. getting a case that has more twists and turns than a mountain road is still one of the most crafted storylines ever concocted. Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, John Hillerman, and everyone else deliver superb performances. Robert Towne's script, John A. Alonzo's camerawork, and Polanski's direction all make this a classic. You can't be a movie buff if you haven't seen this one.
    Neal Wruck

    An excellent piece of filmmaking.

    If it wasn't for the fact that most of the cast would have been too young or not born yet, this movie could have been made in the 1930's or 1940's. It reminds one of the film noirs that Hollywood used to make during that time period. It is a superb example of film making, certainly among the 20 best movies I have ever seen.

    Jack Nicholson is private detective Jake Gitties, who can be as hard-boiled as Humphrey Bogart's Phil Marlowe. But Gitties is different: He is intelligent, dresses well and has associates whom work with him. Gitties is hired by Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) to investigate into an extra-martial affair she believes her husband is having. However, the investigation leads into bigger things involving the water supply of Los Angeles, which is in the middle of a drought. A series of double-crosses, murders and plot twists all lead into a climatic showdown in Chinatown which has a surprising conclusion.

    If the saying `They don't make them like they used to' was ever more true, it was with this movie. Sex is only suggested between the Nicholson and Dunaway characters, yet it is convincing enough. And although Faye Dunaway is a beautiful woman, we never see frontal nudity of her (Directors today would do just the opposite). Some of the plot twists also would not be possibly made today, especially the ending (Which, if you haven't seen the movie, I cannot reveal).

    Nicholson is a tour de force in his role as Gitties, but the rest of the supporting cast (Including John Huston as Mulwray's deceptive father) is equally superb. As to how Nicholson could loose the Best Actor Oscar to Art Carney in Harry and Toto is beyond me. Faye Dunaway was also nominated for Best Actress, only to loose to Ellen Burstyn for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Fortunately, Nicholson and Duanway have both won Oscars since. In addition, the film itself received nominations for Best Picture and Best Director for Roman Polanski (Who has a cameo in the movie as the knife-welding thug who cuts Nicholson's nose), but those Oscars would be lost to The Godfather, Part II. The only Oscar won was for Robert Towne's screenplay, which is today considered the model for film writing. After watching the movie, one will know why. From the stellar performances to the sharp direction to the superb screenplay, this is a cinema treasure.
    9RanchoTuVu

    watered down noire

    A film about LA and water set in the l930's during a drought with a dark incestuous subplot and some stunning performances by Faye Dunaway and Jack Nicholson, and superb cinematography that seemed to capture the essence of LA. Directed by Roman Polanski, who makes a terrific cameo appearance as a switchblade wielding heavy, and using the considerable acting talents of John Huston as a ruthless and perverted landowner. Read Cadillac Desert to know about LA's water grab but see Chinatown for its brilliant allegory of water and corruption, both public and private. The direction, the screenplay, the acting, the photography, and the soundtrack combine to make a convincing and atmospheric picture. The crushing ending is just so much more icing on the cake.

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      After several takes that never looked quite right, Faye Dunaway got annoyed and told Jack Nicholson to actually slap her. He did and felt very guilty for it, despite it being Dunaway's decision. The shot made it into the movie.
    • Patzer
      During the "Mulvihill! What are you doing here?" scene, the elevator call buttons are modern, automatic-elevator type with lights. In the 1930s, elevator call buttons were generally black and had no lights.
    • Zitate

      Walsh: Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

    • Crazy Credits
      The film opens with the 1940's Paramount logo.
    • Alternative Versionen
      TV versions omit the "screwing like a chinaman" joke told by Jake.
    • Verbindungen
      Edited into Die Spur führt zurück (1990)
    • Soundtracks
      I Can't Get Started
      By Ira Gershwin and Vernon Duke

      Recorded by Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra

      (Courtesy of RCA Records)

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    Details

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 19. Dezember 1974 (Westdeutschland)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Vereinigte Staaten
    • Sprachen
      • Englisch
      • Kantonesisch
      • Spanisch
    • Auch bekannt als
      • Barrio Chino
    • Drehorte
      • Big Tujunga Wash at Foothill Blvd., Sunland, Los Angeles, Kalifornien, USA(dry river bed)
    • Produktionsfirmen
      • Paramount Pictures
      • Penthouse Video
      • Long Road Productions
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      • 6.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
    • Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
      • 29.200.000 $
    • Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
      • 29.232.347 $
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