polanski,script,writing,water,oedipus,towne,screenplay,robert mckee,adaptation The subliminal poetic imagery of Roman Polanski's Chinatown

The subliminal poetic imagery of Roman Polanski's Chinatown

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2 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1214 views

tags: polanski, script, writing, water, oedipus, towne, screenplay, robert mckee, adaptation

"You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't." Brilliant and insightful analysis of Roman Polanski and Robert Towne's script for Chinatown (1974), by screenwriting guru Robert McKee.

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Downvote against polantski himself: pedophile trash.

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Upvote against QM; just plain trash.

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*dead

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silvercord has fixed this video's dead embed code - no star awarded because silvercord was awarded too recently.

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um, I'm gonna take a shot and call *cinema

Love Polanski. Love McGee.

Spent some time recreating scenes from this film for a class on directing -- and consulted with none other than Robert Towne's granddaughter.

Beautiful tragic film.

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Invocations (cinema) cannot be called by Trancecoach because Trancecoach is not privileged - sorry.

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*cinema

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'polanski, script, writing, water, oedipus' to 'polanski, script, writing, water, oedipus, towne, screenplay, robert mckee, adaptation' - edited by my15minutes

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