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* ChekhovsGun: The script is loaded with these. ''Nothing'' is superfluous in this movie. For example, 'Bad for glass'. [[spoiler:The salt water is bad for the ''[[JapaneseRanguage grass]]''.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: Jake's client Curly in the opening scene, and the fact that he cannot afford to pay Jake for his services.
* ChekhovsGunman: Jake's client Curly in the opening scene, and the fact that he cannot afford to pay Jake for his services.
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* ChekhovsGun: The script is loaded with these. ''Nothing'' is superfluous in this movie. For example, 'Bad for glass'. [[spoiler:The salt water is bad for the ''[[JapaneseRanguage grass]]''. Hollis died with salt water in his lungs, and Jake realizes that Hollis was drowned in the salt water pool on Evelyn's estate, not in the ocean.]]
* ChekhovsGunman:Jake's client Curly Curl appears in the opening scene, and the fact that scene as one of Jake's clients. Since he's just a humble fisher, he cannot afford to pay Jake for his services.services, but Jake is okay with this so long as he agrees to complete a favor for Jake later. [[spoiler:Towards the end of the film, Jake cashes out that favor by getting Curly to move Evelyn's things during [[RunForTheBorder her attempt to escape to Mexico]].]]
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive [=/=] CorporateConspiracy: [[spoiler:Noah Cross]], already the richest man in Los Angeles, [[spoiler:renders vast farmlands arid by illegally dumping their irrigation water into the ocean, thus causing their prices to plummet to next to nothing. After forcing the farmers to sell their land to his cabal of corrupt business partners, Cross intends to develop his newly acquired land by irrigating it with the water supply diverted from the city itself, through a new aqueduct and reservoir built from $8 million of taxpayer money. His only gain from this elaborate swindle is "The future!"]].
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive [=/=] CorporateConspiracy: [[spoiler:Noah Cross]], already the richest man in Los Angeles, [[spoiler:renders vast farmlands arid by illegally dumping their irrigation water into the ocean, thus causing their prices to plummet to next to nothing. After forcing the farmers to sell their land to his cabal of corrupt business partners, Cross intends to develop his newly acquired land by irrigating it with the water supply diverted from the city itself, through a new aqueduct and reservoir built from $8 million of taxpayer money. His only gain from this elaborate swindle is "The future!"]].future!"]].
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Noah Cross is a local tycoon worth millions of dollars, but despite being able to afford whatever luxury he wants, he still yearns for more. So what does he do? [[spoiler:Pay off the water department to divert water from local farmlands and force farmers from their land, have his similarly corrupt business partners buy the degraded lands on the cheap, and push for a new aqueduct and reservoir project to irrigate the ill-gotten gains, all so he can obtain "The future!" When Hollis discovers this scheme, Noah has him killed off to prevent him from disrupting it further.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Noah Cross is a local tycoon worth millions of dollars, but despite being able to afford whatever luxury he wants, he still yearns for more. So what does he do? [[spoiler:Pay off the water department to divert water from local farmlands and force farmers from their land, have his similarly corrupt business partners buy the degraded lands on the cheap, and push for a new aqueduct and reservoir project to irrigate the ill-gotten gains, all so he can obtain "The future!" When Hollis discovers this scheme, Noah has him killed off to prevent him from disrupting it further.]]
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* TheReveal[=/=]WhamLine: Katherine turns out to be [[spoiler: Mrs. Mulwray's sister ''AND'' [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo her daughter]], her ChildByRape from her evil father]].
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* TheReveal[=/=]WhamLine: TheReveal: As the police are closing in on Evelyn Mulwray, Jake violently demands that she explain the truth about Katherine. Katherine turns out to be [[spoiler: Mrs. Mulwray's sister ''AND'' [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo her daughter]], her ChildByRape from her evil father]].
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** "Oh yes, bad for glass. [[spoiler: Salt water vely bed for glass.]]"
** "She's my daughter! She's my sister! She's my daughter! My sister! My daughter! [[spoiler: She's my sister AND my daughter! My father and I.... Understand? Or is it too tough for you?]]"
** "She's my daughter! She's my sister! She's my daughter! My sister! My daughter! [[spoiler: She's my sister AND my daughter! My father and I.... Understand? Or is it too tough for you?]]"
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** Jake is visiting Evelyn's estate while she's making plans to escape, trying to get to figure out what really happened to Hollis. Jake knows the autopsy found salt water in his lungs, which is strange, since he was found in a freshwater reservoir. His leading theory is that someone drowned him in the ocean and moved his body to a freshwater reservoir, but he realizes that [[spoiler:Hollis was actually drowned in a saltwater pool on Evelyn's property]] after a groundskeeper there tells him, "Oh yes, bad for glass. [[spoiler: Salt water vely bed for glass.]]"
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**"She's After this revelation, Jake corners Evelyn and violently demands to know just what the deal is with Katherine. Evelyn switches between saying she's her daughter and her sister, but Jake doesn't really believe either of those explanations. Evelyn clarifies that [[spoiler:both are true, because Katherine is the result of her father raping her.]]
--->'''Evelyn:''' She's my daughter! She's my sister! She's my daughter! My sister! My daughter! [[spoiler: She's my sister AND my daughter! My father and I.... Understand? Or is it too tough foryou?]]"you?]]
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--->'''Evelyn:''' She's my daughter! She's my sister! She's my daughter! My sister! My daughter! [[spoiler: She's my sister AND my daughter! My father and I.... Understand? Or is it too tough for
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--> ''Chinatown'' is a '70s image of a '40s image of the '30s, apparently based, in turn, on Los Angeles water politics from an earlier period again and complete with a kind of indeterminate post '50s soundtrack.
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--> ''Chinatown'' is a '70s image of a '40s image of the '30s, apparently based, in turn, on Los Angeles water politics from an earlier period again and complete with a kind of indeterminate post '50s post-'50s soundtrack.
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* BitchSlap: [[spoiler: The REAL]] Mrs. Mulwray gives Jake Gittes one. He shocked to realize he'd been duped [[spoiler: by a fake Mrs. Mulwray]]. Later, Jake gives several of these to [[spoiler: the real Mrs. Mulray asking her for the truth about her relations with a young woman named Katherine]].
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* BitchSlap: [[spoiler: The REAL]] Mrs. Mulwray gives Jake Gittes one. He is shocked to realize he'd been duped [[spoiler: by a fake Mrs. Mulwray]]. Later, Jake gives several of these to [[spoiler: the real Mrs. Mulray asking her for the truth about her relations with a young woman named Katherine]].
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* DeadManHonking: The film ends with [[spoiler:Evelyn jumping in her car and trying to escape from the BigBad, her insanely evil father Noah Cross. Shots are fired, there's a sound of a crash, and the sound of a droning car horn. A dead Evelyn has collapsed on the car horn. Cue DownerEnding.]]
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* DeadManHonking: The film ends with [[spoiler:Evelyn jumping in her car and trying to escape from the BigBad, her insanely evil father Noah Cross. Shots are fired, there's a the sound of a crash, and the sound of a droning car horn. A dead Evelyn has collapsed on the car horn. Cue DownerEnding.]]
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** Right after Gittes gets his nose sliced (by a character played by Creator/RomanPolanski), he talks about suing the people responsible for the shenanigans. His assistants snark that the people he's after would have the judge in their pocket....
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** Right after Gittes gets his nose sliced (by a character played by Creator/RomanPolanski), he talks about suing the people responsible for the shenanigans. His assistants snark that the people he's after would have the judge in their pocket....pocket...
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** The film likewise underscores the racism, sexism and classism that a period FilmNoir usually leaves out. As bad as the BigBad is, the world around him is hardly better, with the upper-crust being anti-semites, Gittes' lower-class clients being wife-beaters and basically giving a sense how genuinely a CityNoir setting really is a CrapsackWorld and subverting the {{Retraux}} nostalgic appeal noir fashions usually attract.
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** The film likewise underscores the racism, sexism and classism that a period FilmNoir usually leaves out. As bad as the BigBad is, the world around him is hardly better, with the upper-crust being anti-semites, Gittes' lower-class clients being wife-beaters and basically giving a sense of how genuinely a CityNoir setting really is a CrapsackWorld and subverting the {{Retraux}} nostalgic appeal noir fashions usually attract.
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* IgnoredEpiphany: Jake Gittes voices the saying in Chinatown to Evelyn "Do as little as possible" and earlier likewise tells his client to not seek the truth and "let sleeping dogs lie". Yet throughout the film he doesn't follow his own advice, pursuing the Hollis Mulwray murder mystery even when there's no legal or professional or personal reason for him to do so that causes problems. He's obsessed with finding out the truth like all private detective archetypes and in the end [[spoiler:after he finds out he can't do nothing about it]].
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* IgnoredEpiphany: Jake Gittes voices the saying in Chinatown to Evelyn "Do as little as possible" and earlier likewise tells his client to not seek the truth and "let sleeping dogs lie". Yet throughout the film he doesn't follow his own advice, pursuing the Hollis Mulwray murder mystery even when there's no legal or professional or personal reason for him to do so that causes problems. He's obsessed with finding out the truth like all private detective archetypes and in the end [[spoiler:after he finds out he can't do nothing anything about it]].
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* NoWomansLand: Basically none of the women on-screen have it good for them. [[spoiler:The Fake Mrs. Mulwray, the actress Ida Sessions, gets whacked to tie up loose ends. Evelyn Mulwray dies ignominiously like a criminal, her daughter/sister Katharine enters Noah Cross' clutches[[note]]Fortunately, she's escaped his grasp in ''The Two Jakes''[[/note]], very likely being raped in turn. Even Curly's wife, the woman who was caught cheating by Jakes at the start of the film, is revealed to sport a very new and fresh-looking black-eye, hinting that Jake's investigation condemned her to a life of DomesticAbuse, and she has nothing but contempt for the "hero"]].
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* NoWomansLand: Basically none of the women on-screen have it good for them. [[spoiler:The Fake Mrs. Mulwray, the actress Ida Sessions, gets whacked to tie up loose ends. Evelyn Mulwray dies ignominiously like a criminal, her daughter/sister Katharine enters Noah Cross' clutches[[note]]Fortunately, she's escaped his grasp in ''The Two Jakes''[[/note]], very likely being raped in turn. Even Curly's wife, the woman who was caught cheating by Jakes at the start of the film, is revealed to sport a very new and fresh-looking black-eye, black eye, hinting that Jake's investigation condemned her to a life of DomesticAbuse, and she has nothing but contempt for the "hero"]].
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: For some value of bad guy, Jake Berman kills his business partner for blackmailing as well as sleeping with his wife. He also faces no justice for his crimes because he was SecretlyDying and commits suicide to eliminates all evidence of his crime. Jake even helps him get off the legal hook so his wife can inherit everything.]]
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: For some value of bad guy, Jake Berman kills his business partner for blackmailing as well as sleeping with his wife. He also faces no justice for his crimes because he was SecretlyDying and commits suicide to eliminates eliminate all evidence of his crime. Jake even helps him get off the legal hook so his wife can inherit everything.]]
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* GambitPileup: [[spoiler: Jake Berman murders his business partner to make sure his wife inherits their shared business as he's SecretlyDying. This is while his wife is concealing the fact she's Noah Cross' daughter and owner of most of San Fernando Valley. Earl Rawley is trying to do fraud to deprive Katherine Mulwray/Berman of her mineral rights to the land. All of this while the police and Jake are conducting their own investigations.]]
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* GambitPileup: [[spoiler: Jake Berman murders his business partner to make sure his wife inherits their shared business as he's SecretlyDying. This is while his wife is concealing the fact she's Noah Cross' daughter and owner of most of San Fernando Valley. Earl Rawley is trying to do commit fraud to deprive Katherine Mulwray/Berman of her mineral rights to the land. All of this while the police and Jake are conducting their own investigations.]]
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** Jake flat out says that any attempt to make Earl Rawley pay is doomed to failure due to how much money he has.
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** Jake flat out flat-out says that any attempt to make Earl Rawley pay is doomed to failure due to how much money he has.
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