Film nerd confession: until about ten years ago, I believed that CHINATOWN and BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA were the same film
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Like I knew two things about both movies, that one was told from a white guy's viewpoint but really was about a Chinese Kung Fu hero, and the line "forget it Jake,it's Chinatown" So I kinda figured the kung Fu guy said that after he kicked everyone's ass in Chinatown or whatever
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
There are like no Chinese characters in Chinatown.
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Replying to @jmarquiso @BootlegGirl
Also the real estate plot was reused in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
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Replying to @jmarquiso @BootlegGirl
Roger Rabbit is deeply influenced by Chinatown, down to the line delivery and costuming. It's a satire of that particular genre, I think?
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Replying to @atroskity @BootlegGirl
Yep. Also influenced by The Cotton Club and a lot of noir. It's why it works as it's also an allegory for oppression.
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"Roger Rabbit" is specifically parodying "Chinatown," yes.
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I mean, obviously. However, RR specifically has a character that represents the oppressed class in its story, Chinatown does not.
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Replying to @jmarquiso @the_moviebob and
RR also un-subverts the commentary Chinatown was going for at the end, since they're able to thwart the large-scale corruption. I like to imagine The Zemeckis Cut ends with the line: "Forget it, Eddie. It's Toontown."
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Replying to @KenzieLutece @the_moviebob and
Yup! Though it must be said that the fact that there is no Toontown TODAY (despite it being fictional) should get people to talk about the neighborhoods wiped out for freeways.
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The fact that everyone sees Judge Doom's vision of a car culture future as a horrific senseless dystopia was very cheeky
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KenzieLutece and
Yep. While the movie's ending is that the toons prevail, it says something that the real life analogs did not.
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"Billboards! As far as the eye can see! My God, it will be beautiful!"
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