In this essay, I will be discussing the 3 acts and how the movie Chinatown is applied to the Acts including examples from the movie which substantiate each point.
The story is about a private investigator who discovers underlying corruption, deceit and the beginning of a romance. The first act begins at the start of the movie and closes after the death of Mr Hollis Mulwray. The second act begins after the following events have occurred in act 1.
Act 1
In act one we are introduced to several of the main characters of Chinatown. The main character is Mr J.J “Jake” Gittes; a former Chinatown Police officer who is now an honest and quiet detective in Los Angeles. We are also introduced to a phony “Mrs Evelyn Mulwray” who is revealed later in the act to be Ida Sessions; later in the movie, we learn Ms Sessions’ reasons for her …show more content…
Mr Hollis Mulwray is introduced; the genuine Mrs Evelyn Mulwray and a brief and un-named introduction to Mr Mulwray’s “mistress” who we later are introduced to as Katherine Cross. Near the end of the first act, we are introduced to former police partner of Mr Gittes, Lieutenant Lou Escoubar.
The dramatic premise of Act one starts off with an introduction to the phony Mrs Mulwray hiring Mr Gittes to investigate an affair that her husband, Mr Hollis Mulwray, is currently engaged in. The phony Mrs Mulwray informs Mr Gittes that her husband is the chief engineer of the lights and water department of L.A. Mr Gittes then attends a (pitch) where there is a proposal of the construction of a new reservoir, however Mr Mulwray refuses to go through with the construction as there is evidence that the new reservoir would collapse because the landscape circumstances are the same as the previously built dam that collapsed and injured 500 people. Mr Mulwray refused despite the fact that L.A
The story is about a private investigator who discovers underlying corruption, deceit and the beginning of a romance. The first act begins at the start of the movie and closes after the death of Mr Hollis Mulwray. The second act begins after the following events have occurred in act 1.
Act 1
In act one we are introduced to several of the main characters of Chinatown. The main character is Mr J.J “Jake” Gittes; a former Chinatown Police officer who is now an honest and quiet detective in Los Angeles. We are also introduced to a phony “Mrs Evelyn Mulwray” who is revealed later in the act to be Ida Sessions; later in the movie, we learn Ms Sessions’ reasons for her …show more content…
Mr Hollis Mulwray is introduced; the genuine Mrs Evelyn Mulwray and a brief and un-named introduction to Mr Mulwray’s “mistress” who we later are introduced to as Katherine Cross. Near the end of the first act, we are introduced to former police partner of Mr Gittes, Lieutenant Lou Escoubar.
The dramatic premise of Act one starts off with an introduction to the phony Mrs Mulwray hiring Mr Gittes to investigate an affair that her husband, Mr Hollis Mulwray, is currently engaged in. The phony Mrs Mulwray informs Mr Gittes that her husband is the chief engineer of the lights and water department of L.A. Mr Gittes then attends a (pitch) where there is a proposal of the construction of a new reservoir, however Mr Mulwray refuses to go through with the construction as there is evidence that the new reservoir would collapse because the landscape circumstances are the same as the previously built dam that collapsed and injured 500 people. Mr Mulwray refused despite the fact that L.A