Roman Polanski directed Chinatown, taking entire creativity into his hands.
Taking the script to the big screen, assembling a well versed cast, to the movements of cameras and lighting, we see each aspect of this come together so fluidly in Chinatown.
The way Chinatown is filmed it takes viewers from being main character J.J Gittes to almost like you’re his sidekick.
We distinguish the main aspects of the unraveling mystery through the eyes of Gittes, whether two eyes and camera lens or binoculars we as viewers witness it.
We spot Hollis and suspected mistress while on the roof through a camera lens, spying through binoculars we notice a suspicious man.
James Berardinelli says that seeing things through Jakes perspective makes him our “surrogate
Taking the script to the big screen, assembling a well versed cast, to the movements of cameras and lighting, we see each aspect of this come together so fluidly in Chinatown.
The way Chinatown is filmed it takes viewers from being main character J.J Gittes to almost like you’re his sidekick.
We distinguish the main aspects of the unraveling mystery through the eyes of Gittes, whether two eyes and camera lens or binoculars we as viewers witness it.
We spot Hollis and suspected mistress while on the roof through a camera lens, spying through binoculars we notice a suspicious man.
James Berardinelli says that seeing things through Jakes perspective makes him our “surrogate