****SPOILERS*** With the original director of the hit movie "Chinatown" Roman Polanski on the lamb in far off Europe as a fugitive from justice it came down to actor Jack Nicholson to pick up the ball and direct it's sequel "The Two Jakes" with him playing one of them private eye Jake Gittes. It's Jake who's involved with the other Jake L.A real-estate developer Julius "Jake" Berman, Harvey Keitel, who feels that his old lady Kitty, Meg Tilly, is cheating on him. As it later turns out Kitty is in fact cheating on Jake with his real-estate partner Mark Bodine,John Hackett, who's gunned down by what seems like , were never really sure, Jake Berman himself. That's when Mark is found with his pants down as well as wig off at the Bird of Paradise hotel in downtown L.A.
The film then gets to what exactly Jake, that's Berman, really had going at his housing development that was frequently rocked with tremors and earthquakes making it almost impossible for anyone to live there. It takes a while but were soon to find out that there's a major oil field, 22 by 46 miles, underneath the housing development that a number of people including top L.A hood Michael "Mickey Nice" Weisskopf, Ruben Blades, and millionaire financier Earl Raway, Richard Farnsworth, are itching to get their hands on.
***SPOILERS*** What's the biggest surprise in the film is Jake's, that Jake Berman, wife Kitty who as it turns out is not whom he as well as Jake, that Jake Gittes, and us in the audience think that she is. This is soon discovered, Kitty's real identity by Jake, that Gittes, himself after an exhausting search for the truth in Mark Bodine's murder that Jake, that's Jake Berman, is accused of. It turns out that Kitty did indeed knew Jake, that Gittes, some ten years ago in the movie "Chinatown" that messed up his mind ever since. At the end of the film Jake, that's Berman again, is no longer worried what's to happen to him in that he cleared or tied up all the loose ends in both his and Kitty's life. With nothing to do and nowhere for him to go Jake, That's Jake Berman, just lights up a cigarette and blows himself to smatterings in his gas, natural gas, filled condominium. At the time he had no fear of death in that he was dying, from radiation poisoning, already.
The film then gets to what exactly Jake, that's Berman, really had going at his housing development that was frequently rocked with tremors and earthquakes making it almost impossible for anyone to live there. It takes a while but were soon to find out that there's a major oil field, 22 by 46 miles, underneath the housing development that a number of people including top L.A hood Michael "Mickey Nice" Weisskopf, Ruben Blades, and millionaire financier Earl Raway, Richard Farnsworth, are itching to get their hands on.
***SPOILERS*** What's the biggest surprise in the film is Jake's, that Jake Berman, wife Kitty who as it turns out is not whom he as well as Jake, that Jake Gittes, and us in the audience think that she is. This is soon discovered, Kitty's real identity by Jake, that Gittes, himself after an exhausting search for the truth in Mark Bodine's murder that Jake, that's Jake Berman, is accused of. It turns out that Kitty did indeed knew Jake, that Gittes, some ten years ago in the movie "Chinatown" that messed up his mind ever since. At the end of the film Jake, that's Berman again, is no longer worried what's to happen to him in that he cleared or tied up all the loose ends in both his and Kitty's life. With nothing to do and nowhere for him to go Jake, That's Jake Berman, just lights up a cigarette and blows himself to smatterings in his gas, natural gas, filled condominium. At the time he had no fear of death in that he was dying, from radiation poisoning, already.