The movie Chinatown (1974) ends with the famous line “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.” The line is spoken to the protagonist, J.J. (“Jake”) Gittes (played by Jack Nicholson), by an associate after Gittes fails to bust the villain Noah Cross for committing murder and perpetrating a fraudulent water-supply scheme on the city of Los Angeles.
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