Ben Affleck to talk about the creation of Chinatown
Ben Affleck will reveal the secrets behind creating one of the greatest neonuar thrillers in the history of cinema: the winner of two Oscars will travel to the seventies to shoot the legendary "Chinatown".Paramount's project is based on the documentary novel by Sam Wasson (Fossey / Verdon) The Big Farewell: Chinatown and the last years of Hollywood. " Affleck will write and direct the film. Chinatown was released in 1974. Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway starred in the film by Roman Polanski. The thriller earned 11 Oscar nominations and won the Best Original Screenplay category. In 1991, the US Library of Congress included Chinatown on the National Film Register, a list of films of particular cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance.  Curiously, Affleck won one of the Oscars for Operation Argo, in which the filming of a fake film played an important role. Now Ben will share new secrets of filmmaking, but using the example of real Hollywood classics. Source: Deadline The Topic of Article: Ben Affleck to talk about the creation of Chinatown. |
