Scene 1:
Room: Rectangular shaped room lined with bookshelves and filing cabinets. Low ceilings with the lights off besides the desk lamp. Several nicely framed cheap copies of famous paintings line the office. A small, round glass table sits agsinst the right hand wall. It's filed with varying ages of brandy and scotch. The desk is in the center of the room facing the only door on the oposite side. Windows line the wall directly behind the dark, wooden desk. Newspapers litter the desk as well as two old glasses once filled with scotch, the contains long gone. An overflowing ashtray sits on the side of the desk still smoking from a freshly extinguished cigarette. The photographs Gittes shows Curly come from a large, manila envelope sitting on the desk. The pictures as strewn around Curly.
Lighting: It's dark outside with cool street lights lighting the room through the venetian blinds. Cars frequently pass buy making the horizontal shadows flicker across the room. Gittes sits at his desk rim lit by the street lamps. Every time a car passes by you can make out hints of detail around his iconic fedora and cigarett. There is a dim desk lamp that is on that illuminates Curly. The lack of light makes the room feel smaller, more intimate. Curly is bathed in street lamp light. You can see the sweat dripping off of him, particularly well when a car passes by. The shadows from the blinds fall across him like a cage. The windows are open slightly so a faint breeze and sounds of the night can be heard. Overall the tone of the room is monochromatic.Both men are wearing period garb of the 1930's.
Curly is a large man with short, curly hair. He wears his pale salmon shirt buttoned all the way up making it look like his white tie is choking him. The shirt is ill fit for his girth making the buttons bulge when he starts to become angry. He does not wear a hat, but has pulled his jacket collar high around his fatty neck as a failed attempt of stealth on the way to see Gittes.
Gittes is dressed in a white loose button up with a dark blue tie. He has dark navy suspenders holding up his dark blue pants. His grey fedora has a tattered, stumpy, white feather tucked into it as if a keep sake. His shirt is loose enough to move a little in the slight breeze
