Fine! But Chinatown is a better, more interesting, more fully
conceived movie. That's my point. I'm not saying Gittes is
just like Marlow, I'm saying Polanski had the courage and the
budget to get the continuity right and not have to set the
story at the time the movie was made.
Patrick King
--- Juri Nummelin <
juri.nummelin@pp.inet.fi> wrote:
> I think CHINATOWN discusses and criticizes the
manly
> myths as openly and
> potently as does Altman's film. J.J. Gittes is
no
> hero - he could be even
> less a hero than Gould's Marlowe. In my eyes,
he's
> more closer to Mike
> Hammer in Aldrich and Bezzerides's KISS ME
DEADLY:
> manifestly well off, but
> sleazy nevertheless.
>
> Juri
>
>
>
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