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[V-Adore]

And isn't it odd that one of the most colorful and bright places imaginable - LA - seems to be the setting of many a film noir?

See, as much as I'm generally not a big fan of Chinatown, their use of L.A. was absolutely appropriate. The L.A. of the 1920's, as represented in the film, was an incredible boom economy -- and an incredibly fragile one, as dependent on contrivances for water as it was. The "water business" used there is an ideal model of what I think of as the main problematic structure in noir films: a government, industrial, or other large system easily broken by corruption. That, and the L.A. of Chinatown wasn't even remotely comfortable. It captured the bleakness of the desert very well.

Can't speak for other L.A. noirs, but that's my thought...