Like, I have no problem with happily ever after romance and I probably wouldn't read most grimdark romance, but it is facially absurd to say that you should get to directly, not even implcitly but directly, claim ownership over a genre with a *very* broad name based on preference
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Every case turns out to be about the struggle for land and territory -- stealing water rights from farmers to build the aqueduct, stealing mineral rights from homeowners to turn developments into drill sites, stealing right-of-way from a minority neighborhood to build the freeway
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Unfortunately, the sequel to Chinatown about the oil barons, The Two Jakes, got locked up in development hell and wasn't very popular when it was released Meanwhile the idea for the final movie got shopped around and stolen to become the plot of Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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Chinatown’s working title was “Water and Power”, IIRC
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