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* [[Wretched Hive]]: From the way Jake reminisces about his days there and the events by the film's end, you can tell Chinatown was one of these.
* [[Wretched Hive]]: From the way Jake reminisces about his days there and the events by the film's end, you can tell Chinatown was one of these.
* [[World Half Empty]]: And completely dry.
* [[World Half Empty]]: And completely dry.
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Jake slaps Evelyn repeatedly to get the truth out of her. When he comes to call in a favour from a man that hired him to find out if his wife was cheating on him, the wife opens the door sporting a huge black eye. In keeping with the [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]], neither of these instances spark much outrage in-universe.
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Jake slaps Evelyn repeatedly to get the truth out of her. When he comes to call in a favor from a man that hired him to find out if his wife was cheating on him, the wife opens the door sporting a huge black eye. In keeping with the [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]], neither of these instances spark much outrage in-universe.
* [[Your Mom]]: Gittes uses the wife variation to insult a cop:
* [[Your Mom]]: Gittes uses the wife variation to insult a cop:
{{quote| '''Loach''': What happened to your nose, Gittes? Somebody slammed a bedroom window on it?<br />
{{quote| '''Loach''': What happened to your nose, Gittes? Somebody slammed a bedroom window on it?<br />