The careers of Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, and Tom Cruise would look a lot different if not for Robert Towne.
Towne earned an Oscar for his work on Chinatown, and three other Oscar nods throughout his career.
The resurgence of narcotized detectives in the new millennium speaks to a collective numbness in our society.
It might seem counterintuitive, but assassin films represent the opposite of chaos.