{"id":3,"date":"2007-01-22T08:40:49","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T15:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/2007\/01\/22\/chinatown\/"},"modified":"2007-01-22T08:40:49","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T15:40:49","slug":"chinatown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/2007\/01\/22\/chinatown\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinatown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading <em>The Glass Key<\/em>, I couldn&#8217;t help but relate the novel to the film <em>Chinatown<\/em> (1974).\u00c2\u00a0 Both involve a corrupt power pulling strings in the background while a lowly detective keeps snooping around.\u00c2\u00a0 In both instances we aren&#8217;t really aware of what the main character is thinking.\u00c2\u00a0 Jake Gittes, the main character in <em>Chinatown<\/em>, is not given a voiceover much like Ned.\u00c2\u00a0 This is hardly a profound discovery as both are in the same genre.\u00c2\u00a0 When reading <em>The Glass Key<\/em>, what struck me was that Taylor Henry&#8217;s dead body was found on China Street.\u00c2\u00a0 When writing <em>Chinatown<\/em>, Robert Towne obviously knew his noir.<\/p>\n<p>What separates the two works is that <em>Key<\/em> takes place on the East Coast (NY area) and <em>Chinatown <\/em>on the West Coast (LA).<\/p>\n<p>The only thing left in my mind is why are the Chinese the source of so much corruption?\u00c2\u00a0 Why China Street\/Chinatown?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading The Glass Key, I couldn&#8217;t help but relate the novel to the film Chinatown (1974).\u00c2\u00a0 Both involve a corrupt power pulling strings in the background while a lowly detective keeps snooping around.\u00c2\u00a0 In both instances we aren&#8217;t really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/2007\/01\/22\/chinatown\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}