Another abridged version, 123 minutes.
As an obsessive-compulsive disorder patient, how can I swallow this breath? So I went to the Internet to find the script, and I spent 3.99 knives on YouTube to watch the original English version for 130 minutes. The most representative lines that have been deleted are the following:
So there's this guy Walsh, do you understand? He's tired of screwin' his wife... So his friend says to him, "Hey, why don't you do it like the Chinese do?" So he says, "How do the Chinese do it?" And the guy says, "Well, the Chinese, first they screw a little bit, then they stop, then they go and read a little Confucius, come back, screw a little bit more, then they stop again , go and they screw a little bit... then they go back and they screw a little bit more and then they go out and they contemplate the moon or something like that. Makes it more exciting." So now, the guy goes home and he starts screwin' his own wife, see. So he screws her for a little bit and then he stops, and he goes out of the room and reads Life Magazine. Then he goes back in, he starts screwin' again. He says , "Excuse me for a minute, honey." He goes out and he smokes a cigarette. Now his wife is gettin' sore as hell. He comes back in the room, he starts screwin' again. He gets up to start to leave again to go look at the moon. She looks at him and says, "Hey, what's the matter with ya? You're screwin' just like a Chinaman!"
humiliating. . . Anyway, this stereotype, like Asian Tintin, is not supported by any statistical data.
But comparing the dark reality of powerlessness to Chinatown is one that has to be contemplative.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
This line has become a classic, ranking 74 on the top 100 list. It's even used when people are helpless about Hollywood's own unspoken rules and unreasonable phenomena.
The entire script is a classic and has become a compulsory textbook for film and television majors. In the 1975 Oscars, the film received eleven nominations like "The Godfather II". In the end, only the original screenplay won, losing to the latter in both best picture and director. Just like "The Shawshank Redemption" lost to Forrest Gump 20 years later, there are many good films in the old days, and people always have a hard choice among several films; it is also difficult now, but it is hard to choose among the mediocre films. Come up with a more decent one.
Five years before the film was made, the famous Manson cult killings took place. Director Polanski's eight-month-pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, was brutally murdered. Polanski stayed away from the United States after the case, and this "Chinatown" is his first work since returning to Hollywood. The gloomy atmosphere of the whole film and the dark and tragic ending all reflect the director's own state of despair, sadness and helplessness.
There are many metaphors in the film:
When Jake's first customer at the opening said he was going to kill his wife, Jake replied: "You've got to be rich to kill somebody and get away with it." This already illustrates the theme of the film.
Evelyn died with a shot through the eye and, like Oedipus, who married his mother, was in an incestuous relationship. After learning the truth, Oedipus blinded himself with his mother's brooch, a result more tragic than death.
Evelyn's father's name was Noah Cross. Noah came from Noah's Ark and was associated with a flood; one meaning of Cross was "the cross".
There are many pairs in the film, but one of them is vandalized: the two pocket watches that Jake was tracking, one of which was crushed by the car; the reading glasses found in the pond, one of which was broken; Jake's nose, which was Slashed (Polanski himself plays the unnamed supporting role with the knife); Jake breaks a taillight on Evelyn's car; Evelyn's iris in one eye is flawed and ends up being shot through the other; Katherine looks like Evelyn A replica of her, but a product of incest; Evelyn's husband's body was found with a shoe missing, and Jake was later washed away with a shoe.
A few lines that are repeated:
I think I would've remembered.
It's an innocent question.
As little as possible.
My sister/my daughter.
Although it is highly recommended with five stars, it is not recommended to watch the eunuch version.
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