Is there a deeper, more hidden, esoteric meaning behind the Hollywood films that we all love to watch?

I'm Jay Dyer.

And I'm Jay Widenerer and this is Hollywood Decoded.

China Town is Roman Polansky trying his hand at Neo-Nois and what he does is tell a very seedy tale about corruption and degeneracy at the highest levels

of the Los Angeles elite.

And so that's what we're going to look at today.

I think that Chinatown really was a great throwback to the 30s, which is a very interesting

time in Hollywood and LA. and the whole history of the water

wars and William Mulholland and all of that.

But Chinatown is really about, more than anything else, is corruption.

And Chinatown, the name Chinatown has, begins with the sea, ends with an N, has the same exact number of letters

as the word corruption.

So it is the word they're slipping in to the movie, and every time they use the word Chinatown,

they're talking about corruption.

I used to be with him when we patrol the streets of Chinatown, implying that Jack Nicholson and the cop

were once corrupted cops on the street.

And there's literally no doubt that Jack Nicholson was probably a corrupted cop.

And so when the ending, the final takes place in Chinatown where Fay Dunaway is assassinated

by the police, that is the ultimate in corruption.

And her father doesn't even care about her at all, just wants to know if the daughter is okay.

And the other thing about Chinatown, which I really like, is the sparseness of the style.

Polansky's not getting in front of the story with his camera, which a lot of filmmakers

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