... you can learn from:
Chinatown (1974)
Noah Cross: 'Course I'm respectable. I'm old.
Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores
all get respectable if they last long enough.
John Huston lasted a long damn time - he was born on this day in 1906 and died 81 years and 23 days later. He directed forty-seven movies in his life, the first of which is a little thing called The Maltese Falcon.
But whenever I think of Huston I think of him in Chinatown, which might be seen as a sullying of his character if he weren't so damn fantastic in the role. He walks towards the screen in that last scene and your entire insides shudder.
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"The future, Mr. Gittes, THE FUTURE."
Nowadays, whenever I read about the so-called rich and powerful (who love to screw over the rest of us), and I find out how boring and dull they are (spending their zillions on trinkets and knick-knacks), I find myself thinking of Noah Cross: a least he had a plan, a vision!
I hate Huston after this.
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