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Other performers might talk a little about the bad times and all the frustrations; Brooks describes a scene that sounds like Jack Nicholson's famous freak-out in Five Easy Pieces. "Sitting in the parking lot of a damn fire station back in Hendersonville, Tenn., beating my head as hard as I could because I had snapped, and Sandy screaming at me to quit. I was crying, she was crying. I calmed down, and we went back home." Half a year later, Brooks signed with Capitol Records...
...year is 1948, and in postwar Los Angeles, Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson, of course) is enjoying newfound prosperity at his old trade. For a private eye specializing in "matrimonial" cases, a fluid society with a rising divorce rate is bound to mean good times. But some things don't change. Once again a routine investigation of sexual hanky-panky leads Jake to the discovery of much larger depravities. In Chinatown it was the desire to control water in the San Fernando Valley that set the power elite at one another's throats; in The Two Jakes it is the desire...
...JAKES Directed by Jack Nicholson; Screenplay by Robert Towne...
...places an insupportable burden on director Nicholson. This script is, of necessity, endlessly expository: dramatic confrontation is either crowded out entirely by speculative talk, or it arrives so encrusted with a multiplicity of mysterious motivations that it is robbed of impact. Try as he will (and try he does), Nicholson cannot give The Two Jakes the forward motion or the style it desperately needs. And in the end, he fails to supply that satisfying sense of closure any mystery must have. One leaves the theater not knowing for certain why anybody did anything in this movie -- and by this time...
...Jack Nicholson gets lost in the thickets of plot on his way back to Chinatown. -- With Mo' Better Blues, Spike Lee gets mo' worse. -- David Lynch's Wild at Heart is weird all over...