Chinatown (4/9) Movie CLIP - A Respectable Man (1974) HD
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Cross (John Huston) questions Jake (Jack Nicholson) about his investigation.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
"You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't," warns water baron Noah Cross (John Huston), when smooth cop-turned-private eye J.J. "Jake" Gittes (Jack Nicholson) starts nosing around Cross's water diversion scheme. That proves to be the ominous lesson of Chinatown, Roman Polanski's critically lauded 1974 revision of 1940s film noir detective movies. In 1930s Los Angeles, "matrimonial work" specialist Gittes is hired by Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) to tail her husband, Water Department engineer Hollis Mulwray (Darrell Zwerling). Gittes photographs him in the company of a young blonde and figures the case is closed, only to discover that the real Mrs. Mulwray had nothing to do with hiring Gittes in the first place. When Hollis turns up dead, Gittes decides to investigate further, encountering a shady old-age home, corrupt bureaucrats, angry orange farmers, and a nostril-slicing thug (Polanski) along the way. By the time he confronts Cross, Evelyn's father and Mulwray's former business partner, Jake thinks he knows everything, but an even more sordid truth awaits him. When circumstances force Jake to return to his old beat in Chinatown, he realizes just how impotent he is against the wealthy, depraved Cross. "Forget it, Jake," his old partner tells him. "It's Chinatown." Reworking the somber underpinnings of detective noir along more pessimistic lines, Polanski and screenwriter Robert Towne convey a '70s-inflected critique of capitalist and bureaucratic malevolence in a carefully detailed period piece harkening back to the genre's roots in the 1930s and '40s. Gittes always has a smart comeback like Humphrey Bogart's Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, but the corruption Gittes finds is too deep for one man to stop. Other noir revisions, such as Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973) and Arthur Penn's Night Moves (1975), also centered on the detective's inefficacy in an uncertain '70s world, but Chinatown's period sheen renders this dilemma at once contemporary and timeless, pointing to larger implications about the effects of corporate rapaciousness on individuals. Polanski and Towne clashed over Chinatown's ending; Polanski won the fight, but Towne won the Oscar for Best Screenplay. Chinatown was nominated for ten other Oscars, including Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Cinematography, Art Direction, Costumes, and Score.
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TM & © Paramount (1974)
Cast: John Huston, Jack Nicholson
Director: Roman Polanski
Producers: C.O. Erickson, Robert Evans
Screenwriters: Roman Polanski, Robert Towne
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Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough. Great line.
This movie has some of the greatest dialog ever written in cinema history. "Well, to tell ya the truth, I lied a little."
@@tommyt1971 Huston's justification that 'most people will never have to face the fact that in the right time and in the right place, they're capable of anything' is one of the most depraved and yet truthful lines ever written about the human spirit.
@@tommyt1971 Or when he tells Curly at the beginning of the movie “You’re right! And when you’re right, you’re right! And you’re right!”
I remember an interview with Jerry Garcia when someone asked him about the Dead's late 80's popularity, and he basically used this quote.
Sad but true
Norm Macdonald says John Houston was a big inspiration for Daniel Day-Lewis' Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood, I can kind of see it.
Interesting! TWBB- easily one of the greatest movies ever made. As well as Chinatown. They're the same caliber.
What's Norm MacDonald got to do with TWBB? But yeah that's true, he was one of the people DDL studied to create a unique old American accent.
asderc1 Nothing. He’s just said a few times when it comes up that he thinks DDL was “doing John Huston.”
Treasure of Sierra Madre was big inspiration for There Will Be Blood, does Norm mention that?
@Texas Chainsaw Jesus The coroner is smoking a cigarette in the scene. I always assumed the actor accidentally dropped ashes on the corpse/prop dummy.
Huston brings it like a boss here. The avuncular veneer alternates with polite, casual menace.
That voice could summon Hades from the underworld, and help lull a child to Dreamland, all at the same time.
Although most widely known as a director and screenwriter, John Huston displayed considerable talent as an actor in quite a number of films. He was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Cardinal. He manages to create a visceral feeling of threat and menace in his scenes in Chinatown.
"Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get 'respectable' if they last long enough." Great line.
lmfao
At the time of filming, Jack Nicholson had just embarked on his longstanding relationship with Anjelica Huston. This made his scenes with her father, John Huston,
rather uncomfortable, especially as the only time Anjelica was on set
was the day they were filming the scene where Noah Cross interrogates
Nicholson's character with "Mr Gittes...do you sleep with my daughter?"
That is _echt_ Polanski, and I've always thought of the same thing. There's something to that two-shot of Nicholson and Dunaway in the postcoital bed that says the same exact thing, and it also surely is loaded with references to their general hijinks (not just him and Jack but Huston himself, who was absolutely notorious).
@@mirandac8712
Yep
That was way before Johnny Depp, recruited by Francis Ford Coppola, asking Faye Dunaway to be his movie girlfriend in Don Juan DeMarco (1995)
Anjelica Huston also appeared in Material Girls (2006) alongside Hilary & Haylie Duff
I heard that.
In no other artistic medium does art reflect life perhaps more disturbingly or twisted than this.
It just goes to show you that no matter how screwed up Hollywood is; it has been and continues to get worse.
Listen to Kevin Pollacks telling of the story on Rich Eisen's show...based on Jack telling it to him while on the set of A Few Good Men. It is Epic.
@@shooter7aYeah, it was during rehearsal of the scene but not the scene itself, according to Pollak’s telling.
John Huston was truly menacing and creepy in this movie.
zooeyhall, yes he was
I hate to say it, but I think it's the best thing he ever did. That's nothing against some absolutely incredible films, but this character has virtually become the very icon of evil in cinematic culture; you need look no further than DDL's Plainview. If someone of Cecil Day-Lewis's son's calibre feels mere caracticture is worthwhile, that tells you something: Plainview is nothing more than the portrait of Noah Cross as a young man.
He had such a unique voice and face. Such and interesting person.
Polanski does that in his films - somehow in his films ordinary looking people suddenly look like monsters
cant believe this guy directed Bogart in several of his career-defining performances in the 40s
Huston in this is similar to Lee Strasberg in Godfather II. Seemingly old and losing grip. Joking at his own expense. But with a cold resolve. A natural right to everything.
In a wink to the adults, the villian in animated kids movie Rango was based on Noah Cross.
John Downs also one of the greatest films of all time
Lee van cleef actually
EXACTLY I WAS HAVING VIBE. especially THE FUTURE DIALOGUE
The future, Mr Rango. The future.
And Daniel Day Lewis ripped off his delivery in There Will Be Blood.
I love this movie so goddamn much. Best mystery movie of all time.
"Now that's SURREAL."
"You may think you know what your dealing with, but believe me; you don't".
I've been using this dialog as my own ever since, it has a sophisticated sense of putting others on notice.
+Lorenzo Vasquez
The whole world is CHOCK-FULL of jargon, these days. Back in the day, the only people who used tag-lines and ad-libs were actors, politicians and used car salesmen. Today, you can't get through a conversation w/out hearing it...
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Lol, I suppose my friend. Good observation.
That line ecapulates the entire ending of this film
Polanski got such a thrill using Huston. In his first big Hollywood hit, Rosemary's Baby, he filled the cast with old film greats that he grew up with such as Patsy Kelly, Sidney Blackmer, Ralph Bellamy etc.and it was heaven. But he was totally in awe of John Huston. Huston's 'Noah Cross' fills the screen with character and menace.
By the way Hustons character mispronouncing jakes last name was actually just Huston himself being unable to pronounce the name and thus it was written into the script that Nicholson correct him when John says his last name.
It's ironic because it actually works with the story - it's exactly what a guy like Cross would do to someone like Gittes. Subtly sending him a message that he thinks so little of him that he won't even bother to make an effort to pronounce his name right.
I always forget he wasn't even NOMINATED for an Oscar for this.
"Come come, you don't have to think about that to remember" Well you don't Cross
There will never be another man as epic as John Huston.
Read his autobiography, An Open Book. Fascinating stuff.
He had a quality didnt he.
2:02 that’s a good quote to remember.
has anyone ever seen another version where huston asks " hows the fish" and jake says "a little greasy" huston says "ill tell the cook"
Link?
John Huston left one great legacy
Houston is one of those rare directors who was also a great actor!
Leonard Nimoy is another, and Orson Welles.
I think it's impossible to choose between Godfather and this for the film of the decade.
miranda c I’m going with Chinatown just slightly over The Godfather
Taxi Driver
Chinatown was released in 1974, the same year as Godfather II. It won only one Oscar: best original screenplay (Robert Towne). Godfather II won six Oscars, including best picture.
@@jeffpowanda8821 The Academy isn't the only institution that is allowed to have an opinion on what movies are the best, is it?
@@wanlitan7406 Oh sure.
That one dead fish eye, staring up at Jake, just like Evelyn at the end.
Just noticed something (after many years): Houston is holding his knife and fork the standard European way, Nicholson the American way (fork in the right hand). Probably an accident, not a directed thing? Houston's accidental mispronouncing of "Gittes" was kept in the film.
One of the last and best films of the Golden Age of American film making1964-75. Probably the best era quality wise since the silent comedy days of Chaplin and Keaton. This film is perfectly cast from the major characters on down to the supporting and even the bit parts. Polanski directed it in a quietly bravura manner for example the opening and closing scenes. Its a classic in the film noir, detective mystery field.
Chinatown is all of that, and it's no coincidence that it was directed by a Pole. Europeans were the last and best students of the Golden Age of American cinema of the 1930s-1940s, and films like this show how much they had learned about this genre, plus how it could be made more layered and dangerous.
Small speaking part to Rance Howard (father of Ron and Clint Howard) as a highly irritated farmer at a water hearing.
At the time of filming, Jack Nicholson had just embarked on his longstanding relationship with Anjelica Huston. This made his scenes with her father, John Huston, rather uncomfortable, especially as the only time Anjelica was on set was the day they were filming the scene where Noah Cross interrogates Nicholson's character with "Mr. Gittes...do you sleep with my daughter?" (IMDB)
Noah Cross can be pidgin English for "Don't cross me." This sinister power broker's name contains an implicit threat and warning. When Cross tells Gittes, "You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't," I imagine Cross wagging a finger at Gittes saying "Noah Cross." It's also an allusion to Chinatown and the casual racist attitudes towards Chinese people back in 1937, when the film is set. The Chinese gardener says, alluding to the salt water in the pond, "Bad for glass," as he makes small talk during Gittes' first visit to the Mulwray home. Jake offhandedly responds, "Yeah, bad for glass," unconsciously demeaning the gardener's difficulty with American English pronunciation of the letter "r." This is also a veiled reference to the glasses at the bottom of the pond, which Gittes notices as the sunlight glints on them, and forgets about when distracted by Evelyn's sudden appearance. Water is one of the film's main characters: it's elusiveness due to drought; sudden, threatening appearances without warning as a destructive force; its manipulation by shadowy forces not yet understood by Gittes; the secrets held in the pond in the Mulwray yard. These foreshadowings, period details, and hidden meanings are some of the reasons why "Chinatown" is a great film. Chinatown is not only a place, it's also a state of mind and a spiritual condition.
@Texas Chainsaw Jesus Water problems are nothing new to California. They date back to the late 1800s, maybe as far back as the state's admission. William Mulholland (upon whom the Hollis Mulwray character is loosely based) wanted to dam up Yosemite Valley and "stop all the goddamned waste." Well, they did dam up the Hetch Hetchy Valley to feed water to San Francisco, started diverting Owens Valley water down to LA, dammed up San Francisquito Canyon due north of Santa Clarita in 1928, only to have the thing collapse and kill several hundred people (this was alluded to as the "Van der Lip Dam" in the movie and the disaster Hollis Mulwray referred to at the City Council meeting in the movie, and the reason he refused to build the new Alto Vallejo Dam that the San Fernando Valley farmers wanted).
As best I can remember, his address to the City Council went something like this:
"In case you've forgotten, gentlemen, over 500 lives were lost when the Van der Lip Dam gave way. (Gestures to an overleaf) Core samples have shown that beneath this bedrock is shale similar to the permeable shale in the Van der Lip disaster. It couldn't withstand that kind of pressure. (Refers to new overleaf) And now you propose yet another dirt-banked terminus dam with slopes of 2 1/2 to 1, 112 feet high, and a 12,000-acre water surface. Well, it won't hold. I won't build it, it's that simple. I won't make the same mistake twice. Thank you."
When Pat Brown took office as Governor in 1959, he saw the need for water storage in California. California was undergoing a post-war population explosion. The 1960 census showed a population of just under 16 million in California. A water collection and storage system was designed and built that would accommodate up to an estimated 25 million people. Here we are 60 years later; California has somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 million people, and not a damned thing (no pun intended) has been done to keep up with demand since Reagan left office. Ronald Reagan, in a bipartisan effort, assumed the mantle Pat Brown had undertaken, and continued construction. A dam had already been built at Folsom. Another dam upstream was slated near Auburn, but before ground could be broken on it, Moonbeam took office in 1975 and put an abrupt stop to a lot of projects, both water and highway related. The Auburn Dam never got built (though preparations were made in the form of the Foresthill bridge just east of Auburn).
@Texas Chainsaw Jesus Good question; I really don't know, to be honest with you. Having said that, though, I'd take what the conservationists say with a grain of salt, given the history I've seen of theirs.
The makes me hungry and thirsty.
Onmysheet definitely! always felt that way about this scene...Huston is so damn fun to watch in this scene...cinematically speaking, of course.
sharpasaneraser, nice
Yeah, you can hear the fish crunch. Fried Tilapia, looks like.
A truly great movie.
Improves with age.
Inspired soundtrack.
Magical.
Rosemary's Father.
Noah Cross serves up fish the same way he likes his people, with the head on.
Listen to Kevin Pollack's story, as told to him by Jack, about the rehearsal with Huston for this scene. Epic story.....
Kevin Pollak Shares an AMAZING Jack Nicholson Story from ‘A Few Good Men’ | The Rich Eisen Show
I guess Humphrey Bogart would never have done a scene with his nose bandaged up like that.
Brilliant dialogue.
"As long as you don't serve the chicken that way". F'ing hilarious.
I'm here because of Kevin Pollack talking about this scene on the Rich Eisen show.
"Enough! I am Gandalf. And Gandalf means me!"
Brilliant dialogue and everything else
This was posted a day before my birthday!
Noah Cross, the living embodiment of intellectualism.
Under certain circumstances...Mr. Gittes...Man is capable of...ANYTHING!!!!! Saw that as a 15 yo with eyes wiiiide open and can sense that unusual scene materializing in my mind even now at age 61... Btw I'm a PI since age 24. Mr. GittES😊 not Gitts😮 inspired me. "Our profession takes certain finesses" impressed me even more. And it defines parts of my profession. I freely translate from German synchronized Version. He should 've gotten at least a nomination for the Oscars.
Great acting going on here.
Just think they had another ending to movie...where Noah Cross is killed and it begins to rain.
John Huston and Jack Nicholson later released Prizzi's Honor a few years later
Orson Welles wanted Nicholson badly in the mid '80s but Jack wouldn't lower his price. Deep shame! Never understood the appeal of Prizzi's Honor, much as i revere Huston.
@@philiphalpenny3783
Exactly
I agree
@@brandonreina5461 " it's no feather in the cap of Hollywood how Orson was shunned in his lifetime" said John Huston upon hearing of Welles' death in 1985. Movie are so much poorer without great mavericks being given support to breakaway from sterile formulae. Admire...but don't hire seems to be the policy in Hollywood where Orson was concerned!
@@philiphalpenny3783
I was correct
Huston kept the discipline of making his own films while remaining commercially viable. Welles never had that gift. Bringing both of them together - how about The Other Side of the Wind? A strange waste. Huston came up as a writer and understood old Hollywood. His last films were some of his best.
Love John Huston!
after reading reviews of There WIll Be Blood, great influence on Day-Lewis's American-accent though Day-Lewis didn't rip him off, because he's the man and doesn't have to
When I saw TWBB for the first time the first impression I got from DDL's performance was that it was heavily inspired by Noah Cross. You can choose to believe otherwise
1:33 Isn't that an admission of guilt?
Too vague to stick I'd think
@@reallyhappenings5597 I didn't say it was something thing could be used in court but it's a clear suggestion that Mulwray knows what's going on.
@@ppuh6tfrz646 Then you might call it that, as admission of guilt has a legal definition
If I quote the RUclips link could I use this in a podcast? Audio only.
So crazy to think Jack did a scene with his nearly father in law.. although I think him and Anjelica were long term at this point
Gran bel film da rivedere
jack nicholson said this scene was surreal to him because he had actually just start sleeping with his real life daughter angelica huston and hadn't told him yet.
Wasn't Jack Nicholson in a relationship with Angelica Houston at the time this movie was made? Kinda adds a new layer to the scene.
Oh yeah.... in fact, the day he first rehearsed with Huston, Angelica came to the set to visit her father. Jack was in rehearsal with John, and saw Angelica in the background and he got distracted thinking about how he was going to handle the situation. Then, he snapped out of his distraction right as Huston read the line "are you sleeping with my daughter....?"
politicians...not so much.
Watching this scene between one of the worlds greatest actors and one of the worlds greatest directors (and son of one the worlds greatest actors) I am reminded that this guy actually legitimately killed someone in real life.
And it makes it all the more menacing.
Seriously?
@@SpiderkillersInc Houston had some connection to the black dahlia case involving the death of Elizabeth Short, Houstons best friend George Hodel was the main suspect.
@@mike-fj4vd that wasn't what the OP was referring to. Huston killed a woman in an automobile accident.
@@ic5442 Ok thx for the correction!
@@mike-fj4vd welcome :-)
Behind the scenes here I wonder if John Huston knew that Jack was sleeping with his daughter Angelica 😮😅
5/17/23
Who wrote the subtitles lol?
Kevin Pollack brought me here 💀 1:00 mark
Makes me hungry
I'm OLDD
Great scene,does anybody know what kind of fish they're eating?
I'm not sure, but it might be an albacore given the importance of the Albacore Club later.
Kinda looks like a Bonita which are very common around Catalina Island where this takes place.
Fresh fish.
Great movie. Huston was perfect.
Slightly awkward scene as Nicholson WAS sleeping with Houston's daughter at the time...
John Huston is a funny looking character
Turns jack was sleeping with his daughter in real life
Stating the obvious, one of the great films. And I like the fact that people of a certain low intelligence level don't get it. It's a Masterpiece for smart folks.
That's pretentious.
Leon Müller it’s interesting to me to see other peoples’ “the perfect movie” choices because I’ve sort of been stuck thinking Inglourious Basterds is “the perfect movie” and can’t enjoy other movies now just thinking about how much better Inglourious Basterds is (with the exception of other Tarantino movies). It’s interesting to me seeing someone in a similar situation. For you, it’s Chinatown. For Brian De Palma, it’s Vertigo. For me, it’s Inglourious Basterds. I think this is a syndrome.
@@laurencecunningham1743 Luckily I don´tt have that syndrome. My favorite movie is The Apartment but I have not seen any work that makes the rest look inferior. Only when I saw The Wire, but it was only for a few months.
@@Ratchet2431 Maybe, but some truth is.
@@wannawatchu66 Yeah, like that pretentious people aren't known for being too smart, hence the pretence.
Joe Biden in a nutshell.