Friday, December 2, 2011

"I don't get angry, Mr Gittes. My lawyer .. does. "


  Even if you'd rather steer clear
  of Mrs Hollis Mulwray, on advice
  of counsel, Evelyn cabriolets
  about LA with her own in tow,
  with a satchelful of subpoenas.
  This is not that gentleman, but
  an uncharacteristic glower; and
  I don't know why, but he seems
  not to have mastered her tech-
  niques for facial serenity. In
  another 400 years, timed to co-
  incide with Charley Kane's be-
  ing wiped out (at the rate his
  newspapers are losing money) he
  will probably acquire a telling 
  wrinkle. We should then be sad.
  The law was plainly not for him.


                

                            Funny, how that works.
                            Time of life, that sort
                            of thing.

                    






Robert Towne, screenplay
Chinatown
Paramount, 1974©

Jeremy Young



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