The Greatest Los Angeles Movie Ever?

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MacGuffin

November 17, 2003, 12:15:14 AM
My city needs equal time.

In what film did the City Of Angels play almost another character and was best represented?
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." - Andy Warhol


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aclockworkjj

#1
November 17, 2003, 12:19:29 AM
LA Confidential  gets my vote.  

but only cause magnolia is not there.  it's kinda hard to define just how damn big the los angeles area is.  Heat is pretty damn good too.

Weak2ndAct

#2
November 17, 2003, 12:30:17 AM
Swingers, baby.  Sad, cliched, awful, yet authentic.

classical gas

#3
November 17, 2003, 12:30:43 AM
i have to go with chinatown.

classical gas

#4
November 17, 2003, 12:31:47 AM
Quote from: Weak2ndActSwingers, baby.  Sad, cliched, awful, yet authentic.

damn right , good one...

Pubrick

#5
November 17, 2003, 12:42:01 AM
Boyz N the Hood.
under the paving stones.

The Silver Bullet

#6
November 17, 2003, 01:39:39 AM
"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."
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kotte

#7
November 17, 2003, 05:38:14 AM
I don't really think there are many movies that shows a romantic Los Angelse as there are films showing a romantic NY.

Gotta go with Heat. Beautiful.

Neve been to LA but want to go.

Alethia

#8
November 17, 2003, 06:35:53 AM
chinatown

phil marlowe

#9
November 17, 2003, 07:15:10 AM
short cuts sounds good to me.

SoNowThen

#10
November 17, 2003, 08:52:26 AM
neck and neck tie:

Chinatown  -- LA Confidential
Those who say that the totalitarian state of the Soviet Union was not "real" Marxism also cannot admit that one simple feature of Marxism makes totalitarianism necessary:  the rejection of civil society. Since civil society is the sphere of private activity, its abolition and replacement by political society means that nothing private remains. That is already the essence of totalitarianism; and the moralistic practice of the trendy Left, which regards everything as political and sometimes reveals its hostility to free speech, does nothing to contradict this implication.

When those who hated capital and consumption (and Jews) in the 20th century murdered some hundred million people, and the poster children for the struggle against international capitalism and America are now fanatical Islamic terrorists, this puts recent enthusiasts in an awkward position. Most of them are too dense and shameless to appreciate it, and far too many are taken in by the moralistic and paternalistic rhetoric of the Left.

pete

#11
November 17, 2003, 10:41:10 AM
whoa whoa whoa, The Big Lebowski?
"Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot."
- Buster Keaton

NEON MERCURY

#12
November 17, 2003, 11:46:07 AM
Criik-eee!!:


TheVoiceOfNick

#13
November 17, 2003, 11:52:35 AM
My vote also goes to Swingers... or Free Enterprise... which was like Swingers with a Star Trek twist...

I hate it when people say the valley is "technically not L.A."... FU!  This is why us valley people wanted to sucseed from L.A.'s sorry ass... we pay 60% of the city's taxes, and get no respect...

godardian

#14
November 17, 2003, 12:54:52 PM
No Safe (my personal favorite), Mulholland Drive, or Play it as it Lays, either...

Of the choices given, I picked Chinatown (I never pick "other"- too vague).
""Money doesn't come into it. It never has. I do what I do because it's all that I am." - Morrissey

"Lacan stressed more and more in his work the power and organizing principle of the symbolic, understood as the networks, social, cultural, and linguistic, into which a child is born. These precede the birth of a child, which is why Lacan can say that language is there from before the actual moment of birth. It is there in the social structures which are at play in the family and, of course, in the ideals, goals, and histories of the parents. This world of language can hardly be grasped by the newborn and yet it will act on the whole of the child's existence."

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