Mrs Mulwray Character Traits
The year is 1937 in Los Angeles and J.J. ‘Jake’ Gittes (Jack Nicholson), a private investigator who specializes in cases that involve cheating spouses, has been introduced to a front page case that involves Hollis Mulwray (Darrell Zwerling), the well-known chief engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Once news gets out about Mulwray and the accused affair, additional information is brought up that makes Gittes believe that Mulwray is being set up. From then on out, every step seems to uncover more secrets about Mulwrays’ professional and nonprofessional relationships, such with his wife, Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) and her father (John Huston), who was his former business partner. The only thing holding him back is the
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Mulwray. Mrs. Mulwray is a dignified and elegant rich woman, while Gittes is a wise-cracking and crude private investigator. This works out in their favor because Mrs. Mulwray has a more dodging and more hidden personality and Gittes is more of a straight forward man, allowing them to work well together, but also switches up the game. Gittes is used to doing “as little as possible” when it comes to getting involved in situations but since this case he has ironically done the complete opposite and has gotten involved with not only the case but with Mrs. Mulwray (Chinatown). “You may think you know what you’re dealing with, but believe me you don’t” is ironic statement made by Cross to Gittes because the job of an investigator is to know and nothing less than that. “You see, Mr. Gittes, most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and right place, they’re capable of anything.” (Chinatown). This opens the character Noah Cross in the case, showing the viewer that he not only is the father to Evelyn Mulwray but also the lover and the main antagonist and how Evelyn Mulwray is no longer a widowed wife but also the lover of bother Gittes and her father, the mother and sister to Catherine, and the femme fatale. The different roles that both John Huston and Faye Dunaway have to play in Chinatown shows their ability to transmit different emotions across in a certain setting and allows the viewer to take apart each personality and character they
Mulwray. Mrs. Mulwray is a dignified and elegant rich woman, while Gittes is a wise-cracking and crude private investigator. This works out in their favor because Mrs. Mulwray has a more dodging and more hidden personality and Gittes is more of a straight forward man, allowing them to work well together, but also switches up the game. Gittes is used to doing “as little as possible” when it comes to getting involved in situations but since this case he has ironically done the complete opposite and has gotten involved with not only the case but with Mrs. Mulwray (Chinatown). “You may think you know what you’re dealing with, but believe me you don’t” is ironic statement made by Cross to Gittes because the job of an investigator is to know and nothing less than that. “You see, Mr. Gittes, most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and right place, they’re capable of anything.” (Chinatown). This opens the character Noah Cross in the case, showing the viewer that he not only is the father to Evelyn Mulwray but also the lover and the main antagonist and how Evelyn Mulwray is no longer a widowed wife but also the lover of bother Gittes and her father, the mother and sister to Catherine, and the femme fatale. The different roles that both John Huston and Faye Dunaway have to play in Chinatown shows their ability to transmit different emotions across in a certain setting and allows the viewer to take apart each personality and character they