Chinatown

Chinatown




Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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[last lines]
Walsh: Forget it, Jake. Its Chinatown.

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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Noah Cross: You may think you know what youre dealing with, but,
  believe me, you dont. [Gittes grins] Why is that funny?
Jake Gittes: Thats what the District Attorney used to tell me in
  Chinatown.

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Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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Evelyn Mulwray: Tell me, Mr. Gittes: Does this often happen to you?
Jake Gittes: Whats that?
Evelyn Mulwray: Well, Im judging only on the basis of one afternoon
  and an evening, but, uh, if this is how you go about your work, Id
  say youd be lucky to, uh, get through a whole day.
Jake Gittes: Actually, this hasnt happened to me for a long time.
Evelyn Mulwray: When was the last time?
Jake Gittes: Why?
Evelyn Mulwray: Its an innocent question.
Jake Gittes: In Chinatown.
Evelyn Mulwray: What were you doing there?
Jake Gittes: Working for the District Attorney.
Evelyn Mulwray: Doing what?
Jake Gittes: As little as possible.
Evelyn Mulwray: The District Attorney gives his men advice like that?
Jake Gittes: They do in Chinatown.

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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Noah Cross: Youve got a nasty reputation, Mr. Gitts. I like that.

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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Jake Gittes: I just want to know what youre worth. Over ten million?
Noah Cross: Oh my, yes.
Jake Gittes: Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What
  can you buy that you cant already afford?
Noah Cross: The future, Mr. Gitts, the future.

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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Noah Cross: Course Im respectable. Im old. Politicians, ugly
  buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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[Gittes pretends to seek a nursing home for his father]
Jake Gittes: Do you accept people of the Jewish persuasion?
Mr. Palmer: Im sorry, we do not.
Jake Gittes: Dont apologize - neither does Dad.

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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[an anonymous caller has telephoned Gittes]
Ida Sessions: Are you alone?
Jake Gittes: Isnt everybody?

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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Evelyn Mulwray: Shes my daughter.
[Gittes slaps Evelyn]
Jake Gittes: I said I want the truth!
Evelyn Mulwray: Shes my sister... [slap] Shes my daughter... [slap]
  My sister, my daughter.
[More slaps]
Jake Gittes: I said I want the truth!
Evelyn Mulwray: Shes my sister AND my daughter!

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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[Evelyn Mulwray has just been killed]
Lt. Escobar: Go home, Jake. Im doing you a favor!

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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Yelburton: My goodness, what happened to your nose?
Jake Gittes: I cut myself shaving.
Yelburton: You ought to be more careful. That must really smart.
Jake Gittes: Only when I breathe.

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Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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Jake Gittes: What can I tell you, kid? Youre right. When youre
  right, youre right, and youre right.

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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[Evelyn Mulwray drives while Gittes reads an obituary from the
  newspaper]
Jake Gittes: A memorial service was held at the Mar Vista Inn today
  for Jasper Lamar Crabb. He passed away two weeks ago.
Evelyn Mulwray: Why is that unusual?
Jake Gittes: He passed away two weeks ago and one week ago he bought
  the land. Thats unusual.

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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Evelyn Mulwray: Hollis seems to think youre an innocent man.
Jake Gittes: Well, Ive been accused of a lot of things before, Mrs.
  Mulwray, but never that.

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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Jake Gittes: How much are you worth?
Noah Cross: I have no idea. How much do you want?
Jake Gittes: I just wanna know what youre worth. More than 10
  million?
Noah Cross: Oh my, yes!
Jake Gittes: Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What
  could you buy that you cant already afford?
Noah Cross: The future, Mr. Gitts! The future. Now, wheres the girl?
  I want the only daughter Ive got left. As you found out, Evelyn
  was lost to me a long time ago.
Jake Gittes: Who do you blame for that? Her?
Noah Cross: I dont blame myself. You see, Mr. Gitts, most people
  never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right
  place, theyre capable of ANYTHING.

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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Jake Gittes: Let me explain something to you, Walsh. This business
  requires a certain amount of finesse.

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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Jake Gittes: What the hell is going on here, Lou?
Lt. Escobar: I dont know. Whats going on? Whats happening with
  you?

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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Jake Gittes: How do you like them apples?

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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Noah Cross: Well, Mr. Gitts, you dont look too much the worse for
  wear, I must say! Now wheres the girl?
Jake Gittes: Ive got her.
Noah Cross: Is she alright?
Jake Gittes: Shes fine.
Noah Cross: Well, where is she?
Jake Gittes: With her mother.

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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Morty: Can you believe it? Were in the middle of a drought, and the
  water commissioner drowns. Only in L.A.

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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Jake Gittes: Evelyn, put that gun away. Let the police handle this.
Evelyn Mulwray: He owns the police!

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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[first lines]
Jake Gittes: All right, Curly. Enoughs enough. You cant eat the
  Venetian blinds. I just had them installed on Wednesday.

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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[Lunch is served; its fish]
Noah Cross: I hope you dont mind. I believe they should be served
  with the head.
Jake Gittes: Fine... long as you dont serve the chicken that way.

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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Mulwrays Gardener: [in heavy Japanese accent, referring to the
  grass] Bad for glass.
Jake Gittes: Yeah, sure. Bad for the glass.

Movie Name: Chinatown (1974)
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[Evelyn Mulwray and Gittes in her bathroom]
Jake Gittes: Theres something black in the green part of your eye.
Evelyn Mulwray: Oh, that. Its a... its a flaw in the iris.
Jake Gittes: Flaw?
Evelyn Mulwray: Yes, its a sort of birthmark.

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