Chinatown 1974 -- OPENING TITLE SEQUENCE
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- Chinatown (1974)
130 min - Drama | Mystery - 20 June 1974 (USA)
8.4 Your rating: -/10 Ratings: 8.4/10 from 119,371 users Metascore: 86/100
Reviews: 374 user | 158 critic | 10 from Metacritic.com
A private detective investigating an adultery case stumbles on to a scheme of murder that has something to do with water.
Director: Roman Polanski
Writer: Robert Towne, and 1 more credit »
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston
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Is it weird that I get all tingly just looking at the credits? It's so exquisite with the music and everything. Looove it.
the opening credits set the tone of the movie..haunting, exquisite, dangerous, mysterious, delicately intricated..
This opening credits scene is a great homage to the film noir movies of the 1940's. Jerry Goldsmith's score knocks it out of the park to get audiences ready for the intricately plotted script from Robert Towne and wonderful, believable performances from Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston. One of my top 10 favorite films and scripts.
***** Very true.
and to think the original score was going to be nothing like this.
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Do tell.
@@drfunk1986 I've heard the original score - much closer to what a "classic" film noir of the time might have sounded like...can't remember composer. It's not bad but it lacks that exquisite touch that J Goldsmith brought to the table. Since the film itself was so deeply embedded in the day-to-day LA of the 30s, it needed something a bit different in the score. That love theme with the solo trumpet is an absolute gem. Haunting, evocative.....perfect...like the film.
Saw CHINATOWN in theater in '74 and have been engrossed by it ever since. My Parents grew up in the depression and my grandparents were adults at the time. The movie introduced me to the original pop music of the '30s. As well as writers such as Nathaniel West, Chandler and James Cain. I lived in a townhouse built in the 30s, had furniture and appliances of the 30s, 40s. Even found a vintage 30s tux. It also reflected the corruption of the time-Watergate and its tragic ending gave it a TRUE, rather than Hollywood ending. I, too, could go on forever about it. As close to a PERFECT film as I have found. Interestingly, even though the soundtrack(aside from the "love theme"), echoes the modern composers of the 30s; Schoenberg, Anton Von Webern and Berg, plus a touch of Steiner. WON DER FUL.
VON Webern....Also, touches of Bartok and Alberto Ginestera. Jerry Goldsmith was able to use compositional elements and make them his own; always heightening the emotion, never overwhelming, the visual component.
It really is pretty perfect top to bottom. It never leaves me. Just bought the soundtrack reissue/remaster today from CineWax. Had to have a new copy of Goldsmith's score. Plus it reminds me of my own decades in a faded L.A.
It may be the greatest film ever made. I t has absolutely no weaknesses. Outstanding in ever way possible. I marvel at it whenever I rewatch it.
One of the best films of all time and quite frankly the closest to a flawless screenplay.
My all-time favorite film. Seeing it in college, from the moment those magnificent titles came on the screen, accompanied by Jerry Goldsmith’s haunting score, I knew that this movie was going to be something very special indeed.
RIP Jerry Goldsmith, you were truly a diamond in the rough.
Spike Spiegel there was nothing in the rough about Jerry Goldsmith. He was fully polished.
@@nel1962 Absolutely. He was a great composer as well as soundtrack composition. Very creative, musical mind.
Phenomenal opening sequence. I’ve watched the picture several times now, and not once have I skipped this introduction.
The great Uan Rasey on trumpet. Sound to die for.
Beautiful tone.
One of the very best films EVER!
God, I love film-noir and Jerry Goldsmith...
After so many releases of this film on both DVD and Blu Ray I'm shocked that paramount have still not altered the darkness levels either side of the credit sequence. The original cinema appearance was a much lighter shade allowing the viewer to see more of the art deco design featured backdrop.
Assumed it was meant to be like this to mimic the 4:3 Academy aspect ratio of 30's movies? (Maybe the original screenings were too bright and the sides were meant to be dark?)
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The scroll of the text makes it seem like the background is moving...
RIP Wayne Fitzgerald (Title Designer)
To put it in the vernacular parlance... this movie is the shit.
I love the old titling but I always felt it moved a bit too fast instead of at the pace of the intro theme. Would love to see that.
Great Opening Credits. BTW, I smell the joker...
The opening music really tells you everything: “holy shit, this is gonna an awesome movie isn’t it?!”
When I hear this ...love of a romantic kind any .bittersweet
I've never ever been a fan of Jack Nicholson. This is the only film of his I like. P.S. I can still remember it showing at my local cinema the ABC in Dover from April 13th to April 19th 1975
Even though this is technically neo-noir...
along with godfather 2 one of the last films made using Technicolor's dye transfer process
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