Chinatown Page #2
- R
- Year:
- 1974
- 130 min
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Gittes pulls up a chair sitting next to Mrs. Mulwray -between
Duffy and Walsh. Duffy cracks his gum. Gittes gives
him an irritated glance. Duffy stops chewing.
MRS. MULWRAY
Can't we talk about this alone, Mr.
Gittes?
GITTES:
I'm afraid not, Mrs. Mulwray.
These men are my operatives and at
some point they're going to assist
me. I can't do everything myself.
MRS. MULWRAY
Of course not.
GITTES:
Now -- what makes you certain he is
involved with someone?
Mrs. Mulwray hesitates. She seems uncommonly nervous at the
question.
MRS. MULWRAY
-- a wife can tell.
Gittes sighs.
GITTES:
Mrs. Mulwray, do you love your
husband?
MRS. MULWRAY
(shocked)
... Yes of course.
GITTES:
(deliberately)
Then go home and forget about it.
MRS. MULWRAY
-- but...
6.
GITTES:
(staring intently at
her)
I'm sure he loves you, too. You know
the expression, let sleeping dogs
lie? You're better off not knowing.
MRS. MULWRAY
(with some real anxiety)
But I have to know.
Her intensity is genuine. Gittes looks to his two partners.
GITTES:
All right, what's your husband's
first name?
MRS. MULWRAY
Hollis. Hollis Mulwray.
GITTES:
(visibly surprised)
-- Water and Power?
Mrs. Mulwray nods, almost shyly. Gittes is now casually but
carefully checking out the detailing of Mrs. Mulwray's dress -her
handbag, shoes, etc.
MRS. MULWRAY
-- he's the Chief Engineer.
DUFFY:
(a little eagerly)
-- Chief Engineer?
Gittes' glance tells Duffy Gittes wants to do the questioning.
Mrs. Mulwray nods.
GITTES:
(confidentially)
This type of investigation can be
hard on your pocketbook, Mrs.
Mulwray. It takes time.
MRS. MULWRAY
Money doesn't matter to me, Mr.
Gittes.
Gittes sighs.
GITTES:
Very well. We'll see what we can do.
already shimmering with heat. A drunk blows his nose with
his fingers into the fountain at the foot of the steps.
7.
Gittes, impeccably dressed, passes the drunk on the way up
the stairs.
INT. COUNCIL CHAMBERS
Former Mayor SAM BAGBY is speaking. Behind him is a huge
map, with overleafs and bold lettering: "PROPOSED ALTO VALLEJO
DAM AND RESERVOIR" Some of the councilmen are reading funny
papers and gossip columns while Bagby is speaking.
BAGBY:
-- Gentlemen, today you can walk out
that door, turn right, hop on a
streetcar and in twenty-five minutes
end up smack in the Pacific Ocean.
Now you can swim in it, you can fish
in it, you can sail in it -but you
can't drink it, you can't water your
lawns with it, you can't irrigate an
orange grove with it. Remember -we
live next door to the ocean but
we also live on the edge of the
desert. Los Angeles is a desert
community. Beneath this building,
beneath every street there's a desert.
Without water the dust will rise up
and cover us as though we'd never
existed!
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