Except that they make it impossible for people to write stories with the person on the street definition and find an audience
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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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(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.)
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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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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
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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
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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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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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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)
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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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I've never heard the connection explicitly confirmed but it sure as hell feels like it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @82_Streetcar and
Not that the chicanery behind the building of the freeway isn't a generally worthy topic The game LA Noire is also about this
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Replying to @arthur_affect @82_Streetcar and
"Forget it, Eddie, it's ToonTown."
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