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Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir mystery film directed by Roman Polanski from a screenplay by Robert Towne.The film stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway.It was inspired by the California water wars: a series of disputes over southern California water at the beginning of the 20th century that resulted in Los Angeles securing water rights in the Owens Valley. [4]
Lee's novel centers on Wang Chi-yang, a 63-year-old man who fled China to avoid the communists. The wealthy refugee lives in a house in the Chinatown district of San Francisco with his two sons. A regular visitor to the household is his sister-in-law Madam Tang, who is taking citizenship classes and urges Wang to adopt Western ways.
Chinatown (Chinese: 唐人街) is the catch-all name for an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside Greater China, most often in an urban setting. Areas known as "Chinatown" exist throughout the world, including Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
“I know that it’s a tremendous issue — I mean ‘Chinatown,’ the movie,” she said, referring to the 1974 classic about L.A. draining the Owens Valley in the Eastern Sierra to nurture the ...
Flower Drum Song was the eighth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein.It is based on the 1957 novel, The Flower Drum Song, by Chinese-American author C. Y. Lee.It premiered on Broadway in 1958 and was then performed in the West End and on tour.
The earthquake, on April 18, 1906, killed about 3,000 people, and its subsequent fires destroyed the Chinatown ghettos, gambling halls, and brothels. [35] This was the death knell for the warring tongs, as many of their staple sources of income never were able to come back. Recovery was slow, most tongs just simply went away with the old Chinatown.
The Two Jakes is a 1990 American neo-noir mystery film and the sequel to the 1974 film Chinatown. [4] Directed by and starring Jack Nicholson, who reprises his role of J.J. “Jake” Gittes from the first film, the cast also features Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, Richard Farnsworth, Frederic Forrest, David Keith, Rubén Blades, Tracey Walter and Eli Wallach.
While speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Kravitz described the ending of Blink Twice as "sweet revenge." "There's a lot of open-ended questions that I hope spark conversations," she said.