[Nick Zwar]

CHINATOWN is one of my all time favorite movies and scores, so I really did not forget about it. However, for me (others may differ) it didn’t align with Thor’s request for “Urban Soundscapes” “steamy, throbbing” or “busy atmosphere”, “skyscrapers”… instead, CHINATOWN the music conjures up images of the Western desert, orange groves, dust, a sparse, dry sound for the (then) more spread out desert community Los Angeles that borders at the ocean, far removed from the urban density of New York or Chicago or Boston (or later L.A.). So while I love CHINATOWN (both score and film), and I certainly did not forget about it, it just did not fit with what Thor was asking for.