{"id":68,"date":"2007-07-23T11:12:30","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T18:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2007-07-23T11:12:30","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T18:12:30","slug":"chinatown-locations-dick-sylbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Chinatown Locations, Dick Sylbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/chinatown-article-cover.jpg' title='chinatown-article-cover.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/chinatown-article-cover.jpg' alt='chinatown-article-cover.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;m posting scans of an article from the July 8th, 1999 LA Times that comemorated the 25th anniversary of Roman Polanski&#8217;s <em>Chinatown<\/em>. The article talks about the locations used in the film and why Dick Sylbert chose them. It&#8217;s interesting for several reasons, you get to see where the actual locations are or were in 1999. Go out and look them up, drive around LA on your own  <em>Chinatown<\/em> tour. Also you get a glimpse into why Sylbert made certain creative decisions, that Jake Gittes had to constantly go up to a location, it was an uphill climb, a struggle, a pursuit. The psychology of a courtyard bungalow apartment complex. The thought behind the choice.  Dick was an intellectual and a lot of thought and personal logic, creative interpretation went into his designs. I read an article on the designs he did for <em>Francis<\/em> ( the film about Frances Farmer starring Jessica Lange), Dick had created a visual equivalent to certain classical music forms that he felt played like the emotional arcs of the story. Incredible stuff. Polanski said about <em>Chinatown<\/em>, &#8220;Robert Towne had this thing about Los Angeles, about the history of the city, and that&#8217;s what makes it so profound. Without that, you would just have another detective thing.&#8221; And Dick Sylbert found the places to make it work. He made Los Angeles a character in <em>Chinatown<\/em>. Below is a .pdf of the entire article.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/sylbert-articlesmaller.pdf' title='sylbert-articlesmaller.pdf'>sylbert-articlesmaller.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m posting scans of an article from the July 8th, 1999 LA Times that comemorated the 25th anniversary of Roman Polanski&#8217;s Chinatown. The article talks about the locations used in the film and why Dick Sylbert chose them. It&#8217;s interesting for several reasons, you get to see where the actual locations are or were in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}