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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl Feb 9
      Replying to @ReadingDanger

      I think it's similarly problematic, but I haven't personally seen (not to say it isn't happening) the same level of aggressive defense of that as a requirement and not a convention. I'm pretty sure there's a few classic mystery novels where the mystery is unsolved, fwiw

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    2. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl Feb 9
      Replying to @BootlegGirl @ReadingDanger

      And overall I think the marketing based redefinition of mystery novels to exclude a huge swath of detective stuff is absurd. Chinatown is clearly, colloquially, "a mystery."

      1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
    3. ReadingDanger‏ @ReadingDanger Feb 9
      Replying to @BootlegGirl

      Oh definitely in both cases the "person on the street" would most likely use a broad definition. Personally I'm cool with people who are more invested/involved using a more precise definition among themselves, so long as they're not trying to go fix every random "on the street."

      1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
    4. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl Feb 9
      Replying to @ReadingDanger

      Except that they make it impossible for people to write stories with the person on the street definition and find an audience

      2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
    5. DW Rowlands‏ @82_Streetcar Feb 9
      Replying to @BootlegGirl @ReadingDanger

      As a person who is metaphorically on the street, in that I don't read detective novels, I would've thought that there being a solution was part of the definition of a "mystery," because I mostly think of them as a type of puzzle story.

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    6. DW Rowlands‏ @82_Streetcar Feb 9
      Replying to @82_Streetcar @BootlegGirl @ReadingDanger

      (My entire understanding of the movie _Chinatown_ is that it may be identical to _Who Framed Roger Rabbit?_ and somehow has something to do with the General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy.)

      1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
    7. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl Feb 9
      Replying to @82_Streetcar @ReadingDanger

      It is near identical to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and is about a different real conspiracy (the theft of water for the expansion of California cities) from the same time period I guess I should say it's an example of mystery not ending with the protagonist getting the arrest

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    8. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl Feb 9
      Replying to @BootlegGirl @82_Streetcar @ReadingDanger

      The mystery is solved but it doesn't matter, no one will believe the protagonist and he can't save his love interest or anyone else

      2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 9
      Replying to @BootlegGirl @82_Streetcar @ReadingDanger

      Chinatown is supposed to be the first movie in the planned "LA Trilogy", tying these deeply personal noir plots to big-picture political struggles that defined the origin story of modern Southern California Over three big resources -- water, oil, transit

      2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 9
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and

      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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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 9
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and

      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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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 9
          Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and

          And then the Coens took the basic idea of The Two Jakes and reinterpreted it to be the plot of The Big Lebowski (the detective and his wealthy client whose lover just vanished happen to have the same name)

          2 replies 2 retweets 7 likes
        3. DW Rowlands‏ @82_Streetcar Feb 9
          Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl @ReadingDanger

          Huh! So there actually is a connection between _Chinatown_ and _Who Framed Roger Rabbit?_? I'd always been kind of confused about why people seemed to cite them interchangeably. (Los Angeles history, unlike movies, is something I am interested in and so do read about a lot.)

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