22 Movies You’ll Regret Not Watching
4. Chinatown
Jack Nicholson plays the PI in this 1974 movie directed by Roman Polanski. Faye Dunaway and John Huston are the well-positioned family torn apart by the secret.
“Chinatown” is often considered to be one of the finest scripts ever written in the history of Hollywood. Another film that is considered to be of the same quality is “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” with a script written by William Goldman.
Both films came out around the same time and were huge successes. “Chinatown,” of course, is a stylistic masterpiece. Borrowing from elements of Film Noir, the movie is important to film history in terms of aesthetics as well as for its brilliantly written script.
With its dark subject matter unraveling with twists and turns, the film is an interesting blend of style borrowed from an earlier era and modern appeal as evidenced by its treatment of a subject not typically associated with film. The main players are often praised for their performances in this atmospheric thriller. Viewers will be mesmerized by the plot as it unfolds line by line.
