Chinatown Screenplay

CHINATOWN
by
Robert Towne


















THIRD DRAFT
October 9, 1973






1 FULL SCREEN PHOTOGRAPH

grainy but unmistakably a man and woman making love.
fool away shakes. SOUND of a man MOANING in anguish.
The photograph is dropped, revealing ANOTHER, MORE
compromising one. Then another, and another. More moans.

CURLYS VOICE
(crying out)
Oh, no.

2 INT. GITTES OFFICE

CURLY drops the photos on Gittes desk. Curly towers
over GITTES and sweats heavily through his workmans
clothes, his airing progressively more labored. A
drop plunks on Gittes shiny desk top.

Gittes notes it. A fan whiffs overhead. Gittes glances
up at it. He looks cool and rattling(a) in a white linen suit
despite the heat.



neer taking his eyes off Curly, he
lights a cigarette use a lighter with a nail on
his desk.

Curly, with another hag-ridden sob, turns and rams his
fist into the wall, kicking the wastebasket as he does.
He starts to sob again, slides along the wall where his
fist has left a noticeable dent and its impact has sent
the signed photos of several impression stars askew.

Curly slides on into the blinds and sinks to his knees.
He is weeping heavily now, and is in such pain that he
actually bites into the blinds.

Gittes doesnt move from his chair.

GITTES
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