Films

Chinatown : A Body in the Reservoir

"Jake" Gittes (Jack Nicholson) goes to the reservoir to speak with Mr. Mulwray. He runs into Lou Escobar (Perry Lopez), an officer he'd worked with in Chinatown, and sees Mr. Mulwray's body.

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Technicolor, ambient sound , camera leading, crescendo, dialogue, eyeline match, long shot, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, music, nondiegetic, over the shoulder shot, reverse angle, shot/reverse shot, traveling shot

Diversity in Media Representation

LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, Latinx, White, White: White American

"A Body in the Reservoir" in Chinatown. Directed by Roman Polanski, Paramount Pictures, 1974, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3843

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