Chinatown Page #4
- R
- Year:
- 1974
- 130 min
- 862,118 Views
(through above, to
Mulwray)
-- You steal the water from the
valley, ruin the grazing, starve my
livestock -- who's paying you to do
that, .Mr. Mulwray, that's what I
want to know!
It's virtually empty. Sun blazes off it's ugly concrete banks.
Where the banks are earthen, they are parched and choked
with weeds.
After a moment, Mulwray's car pulls INTO VIEW on a flood
control road about fifteen feet above the riverbed. Mulwray
gets out of the car. Me looks around.
WITH GITTES:
holding a pair of binoculars, downstream and just above the
flood control road -- using some dried mustard weeds for
cover. he watches while Mulwray makes his way down to the
center of the riverbed. There Mulwray stops, tuns slowly,
appears to be looking at the bottom of the riverbed, or -at
nothing at all.
GITTES:
trains the binoculars on him. Sun glints off Mulwray's
glasses.
BELOW GITTES:
There's the SOUND of something like champagne corks popping.
Then a small Mexican boy atop a swayback horse rides it into
the riverbed, and into Gitte's view.
MULWRAY:
himself stops, stands still when he hears the sound. Power
lines and the sun are overhead, the trickle of brackish water
at his feet. He moves swiftly downstream in the direction
of the sound, toward Gittes.
10.
GITTES:
moves a little further back as Mulwray rounds the bend in
the river and comes face to face with the Mexican boy on the
muddy banks. Mulwray says something to the boy. The boy
doesn't answer at first. Mulwray points to the ground. The
boy gestures. Mulwray frowns. He kneels down in the mud and
stares at it. He seems to be concentrating on it. After a
moment, he rises, thanks the boy and heads swiftly back
upstream -- scrambling up the bank to his car. There he
reaches through the window and pulls out a roll of blueprints
or something like them - he spreads them on the hood of his
car and begins to scribble some notes, looking downstream
from time to time. The power lines overhead HUM. He stops,
listens to them -- then rolls up the plans and gets back in
the car. He drives off.
GITTES:
Hurries to get back to his car. He gets in and gets right
back out. The steamy leather burns him. He takes a towel
from the back seat and carefully places it on the front one.
He gets in and takes off.
Street lights go on.
MULWRAY:
pulls up, parks. Hurries out of the car, across the park
lawn and into the shade of some trees and buildings.
GITTES:
pulls up, moves across the park at a different angle, but in
the direction Mulwray had gone. He makes it through the trees
in time to see Mulwray scramble adroitly down the side of
the cliff to the beach below. Be seems in a hurry. Gittes
moves after him - having a little more difficulty negotiating
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