Robert Towne scored an Oscar for Chinatown, followed it up with another hit, Shampoo, and spent the rest of the 1970s as the most lauded, in-demand screenwriter and script doctor in town, but the new decade had not been so kind.
12 January 2016
28 March 2014
Chinatown: The Lambro Score
"I couldn't believe it - it was Chinese-sounding!"- Jerry Goldsmith on Phillip Lambro's score, Soundtrack! Magazine
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| Composer Phillip Lambro |
It's hard to imagine Chinatown without the now-iconic score by Jerry Goldsmith - Uan Rasey's haunting trumpet solo over the opening credits, the sense of impending doom underlying the tender love theme, the dark, brooding suggestion of a great evil approaching in Noah Cross, and the understated menace of the simple cues accompanying Jake's investigations.
What's particularly remarkable is that Goldsmith completed it in ten days, having been brought in at the very last minute when the film's initial score, by composer Phillip Lambro, was finally rejected. This earlier score has only been briefly mentioned in passing by the film's main participants, and not kindly:
25 October 2013
Deleted Scene: A Satisfied Client's Wife
Jake and Evelyn's conversation in the Brown Derby is interrupted by the fallout from one of Jake's recent investigations.
JJ Gittes Investigations
Here you can find information about the creators, the cast, deleted scenes and more. I'll also be writing about lesser-known aspects of the films, such as the original inspirations for Chinatown, the long and troubled production of The Two Jakes, and the never-made third film of the series.
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