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Throughout the movie Chinatown, a film noir like atmosphere is portrayed. This is one of the first pictures that used this style of film in color format. Even though it was not black and white, and the producer could not utilize the use of shadows as much, it was still one of the best film noir movies ever made. Many other techniques were used to capture the gloomy mood that this genre of film attempts to convey.
Chinatown was successful in its attempt to formulate a film noir movie in part because it followed the design of previous films of its kind. The most obvious of these films that Chinatown followed was The Maltese Falcon. It was understandable that Chinatown was a film noir movie because there were many instances used throughout it that related to The Maltese Falcon. First of all, Jack Nicholson, the leading role in the movie, was a private detective by profession. He also had a partner and associates that helped him with each case. Just as in The Maltese Falcon,......

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