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Beyond the Screenplay

Patreon Preview: Chinatown

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7626 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello, listener, and welcome to this preview of our latest Patreon exclusive episode.

0:06.4

To continue the conversation and listen to the full episode, head over to the Beyond the

0:10.7

Screenplay Patreon.

0:12.3

The link is in the show notes.

0:15.1

Hi, I'm Michael, and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast for each episode, we do a

0:19.8

conversational deep dive analysis into a film.

0:23.0

Today, we are talking about Chinatown, the 1974 film written by Robert Town, directed by Roman Polanski.

0:30.4

I'm joined, of course, by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Rand.

0:34.0

Hello, everyone.

0:35.6

Brian Bittner.

0:36.7

Hello, hello.

0:37.7

And Alex Cayeros.

0:39.4

Hi.

0:40.5

Okay, so we're doing sort of a soft kickoff for our new winter season, Best Picture Winter,

0:47.6

as we are examining classic Oscar-nominated winning, et cetera, films.

0:54.2

And Chinatown is such a great film to start it off because it's one of the best films ever.

0:59.8

It's been on like every single top 100 films of all time list somewhere toward the top.

1:07.1

When I started the channel, I think a comment on one of my first videos was like, oh,

1:12.2

the screenwriting channel, you have to talk about Chinatown next.

1:15.7

And I said, no, I am afraid.

1:17.7

That's too scary.

1:18.7

It's one of the best scripts ever made.

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