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THE DIRTY SECRET BETWEEN L.A. AND ITS WATER SUPPLY -- THE HEART OF THE MATTER IN "CHINATOWN."

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1330x1663 -- Spotlight on a "Chinatown" (1974) themed piece from the Atlantic article, "The Lies Los Angeles was Built Upon" -- "Chinatown" is about the secret history of how Los Angeles became a paradise — but it offers a warning for the city’s future," written by Chris Stanton, published July 25, 2024. Artwork by Clay Rodery.

"When Robert Towne sat down to write the screenplay for "Chinatown," he quickly found himself lost in a maze of his own making. He had set out to write a detective story in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, one that would pay tribute to the Los Angeles of his childhood -- a time before industrial smog choked the city, and before the Manson murders persuaded his friends to buy handguns and guard dogs. He wanted it to star his friend Jack Nicholson, whom he had first met in an acting class in the 1950s. And he planned to borrow liberally from a book on Southern California history that his then-girlfriend, Julie Payne, had found for him at the library.

If the movie was to be about Los Angeles itself, Towne wanted to intertwine the characters’ personal drama with some sordid local scandal — and where better to look for inspiration than the actual history of how the city had stolen water from a valley 250 miles away, ravaging the valley in the process? Towne had found an original sin on which to build his story, but the audacity of the crime and the sheer depth of conspiracy required to pull it off seemed impossible to fit into a screenplay. His first draft was about 340 pages."

-- THE ATLANTIC, "The Lies Los Angeles was Built Upon," by Chris Stanton, published June 25, 2024

Source: www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/06/chinatown-50th-anniversary-water-california/678780.