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That difficulty is reflected in the 16 years required to created The Two Jakes. Originally scheduled for release in the mid-80s, the film became mired in disagreements between three of four of Chinatown's creative forces. Producer Robert Evans, screen writer Robert Towne, and Nicholson. (Polanski, according to Nicholson, was not involved in the process, partly because of cost overruns). When The Two Jakes finally made it to production, Nicholson had assumed the directing responsibilites. In addition, the freshman director took it upon himself to rewrite parts of the script as he went along...
...Jakes is set in 1948 post-war Los Angeles. Eleven years have passed since the fateful events of Chinatown which shaped Gittes' life. Those events have a crucial impact on the events of this current film, and having seen Chinatown makes seeing The Two Jakes much richer...
Towne, rather than display the form that earned his Chinatown an Academy Award, lets the $60 million worth of race cars, panoramic track views and explosions, do all the work. The script gives way almost entirely to stage and technical directions with the dialogue proceeding limply...
...alleged mastermind of this scheme was a man who knows a good business opportunity when he sees one: Panama's Manuel Antonio Noriega. U.S. immigration officials suspect that the 47 aliens were ultimately headed for New York City's Chinatown and were customers of a lucrative passport-for-sale racket run for several years by Noriega and his cronies. If the deposed strongman was truly a "people-smuggling" kingpin as a sideline to his alleged drug-trafficking business, he was simply cashing in on the upper niche of an industry that is booming at every level. In March federal agents...
Take New York City. If families were separated from each other for the sake of diversity--as supporters of randomization define the word--what would happen to the culture of Chinatown, Little Italy or the Hasidic Jewish community on the Lower East Side...