Throughout Film History, there have been numerous sightings of the director who is making the film within the film.  In some cases the director’s role may be that of the leading role, a minor role, or in many cases just seen walking in the background.  A director does specific actions and features in a film on purpose.  There is a reasoning for everything.  Nothing is random.  In the film, Chinatown, a major scene disfiguring the main character of Jake occurs and the person doing it is none other than Director, Roman Polanski.  In the scene, Jack Nicholson’s character, Jake, is trespassing during his investigating of the water output.  Jake’s job as a private investigator is to not be seen or be noticeable.  During his investigation, he is cornered by Roman Polanski’s character and has a switchblade in his nose.  Jake’s character loses all his charisma and becomes feeble.  Polanski’s character begins to toy with Jake, intimidating him until the point where he slices Jake’s nose and tells him to get lost.  This form of inserting a director into their own film can be viewed in many different ways.  It may have to do with Polanski’s personality and showing his authority, or it may have to do with the fact that over time if the film gained a large amount of success, which it did, then the audience would be anticipating the moment.  Knowing that someone’s nose is about to be cut is a hard thing to watch because everyone knows that that would hurt so much.  After the moment Jake gets his nose cut, he wears a large bandage over his nose for the majority of the film.  Based on his job, this makes him stick out like a sore thumb and who did it? The guy who made the film.