It seems as if we are NOT getting any more discussion here even if we had a lot of people vote. What else is new?
How about all the fun clues and foreshadowing spread throughout the movie which lead you to the identity of the murderer and the chief baddie in the flick?
In the very first scene where Curly (Burt Young) looks at the photos which Gittes (Nicholson) got of his wife cheating, Curly says, "They don't pay you as much for skipjack as they do for albacore."
Later when Gittes looks at the photos of Mulwray arguing with who turns ouit to be Noah Cross, Walsh says he could only make out one phrase due to all the noisy traffic, "apple core".
In Yelbertson's office, there are several photographs of big fish on the walls. Later on, in Yelberton's secretary's room, Gittes sees lots of photos of Mulwray and Cross and learns who Cross is.
Just for fun, the "midget" (Polanski) who slices up Gittes' nose tells him that next time he'll cut the rest of it off and feed it to his goldfish.
Later on, Gittes speaks the line, "What do you think of them apples?" just in case you forgot about "apple core".
Gittes finally meets Cross and has lunch with him on Catalina Island at the Albacore Club. His lunch is a fish served with the head on. Cross says he prefers them that way and Gittes says that it's fine "as long as you don't serve the chicken that way."
Of course, later on we learn that the Old Age Home is "sponsored" and does some work for the Albacore Club. Then we also learn that Mrs. Mulwray is Noah Cross's daughter.
As a side note, in the restaurant where the pianist plays "The Way You Look Tonight" the arrangement seems to highlight how much the melody resembles that of "As Time Goes By" (Casablanca).
Oh, I want to apologize for misrepresenting something earlier concerning another Bogie flick. In The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade's partner's wife was named Iva and not Ida. It still could be a reference but not quite as blatant if that's true.
Did anybody else notice any of this stuff?
How about all the fun clues and foreshadowing spread throughout the movie which lead you to the identity of the murderer and the chief baddie in the flick?
In the very first scene where Curly (Burt Young) looks at the photos which Gittes (Nicholson) got of his wife cheating, Curly says, "They don't pay you as much for skipjack as they do for albacore."
Later when Gittes looks at the photos of Mulwray arguing with who turns ouit to be Noah Cross, Walsh says he could only make out one phrase due to all the noisy traffic, "apple core".
In Yelbertson's office, there are several photographs of big fish on the walls. Later on, in Yelberton's secretary's room, Gittes sees lots of photos of Mulwray and Cross and learns who Cross is.
Just for fun, the "midget" (Polanski) who slices up Gittes' nose tells him that next time he'll cut the rest of it off and feed it to his goldfish.
Later on, Gittes speaks the line, "What do you think of them apples?" just in case you forgot about "apple core".
Gittes finally meets Cross and has lunch with him on Catalina Island at the Albacore Club. His lunch is a fish served with the head on. Cross says he prefers them that way and Gittes says that it's fine "as long as you don't serve the chicken that way."
Of course, later on we learn that the Old Age Home is "sponsored" and does some work for the Albacore Club. Then we also learn that Mrs. Mulwray is Noah Cross's daughter.
As a side note, in the restaurant where the pianist plays "The Way You Look Tonight" the arrangement seems to highlight how much the melody resembles that of "As Time Goes By" (Casablanca).
Oh, I want to apologize for misrepresenting something earlier concerning another Bogie flick. In The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade's partner's wife was named Iva and not Ida. It still could be a reference but not quite as blatant if that's true.
Did anybody else notice any of this stuff?
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