The Conversation (1974)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.1/10   

Director:

Francis Ford Coppola

Guionista:

Francis Ford Coppola (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

1974 (Japan)

Género:

Crimen | Drama | Misterio | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

Harry Caul is an invader of privacy. The best in the business. He can record any conversation between two people anywhere. So far, three people are dead because of him.

Plot:

A paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered. |

Plot Keywords:

Surveillance | Hotel Room | Neo Noir | Paranoia | Sound

Premios:

Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 11 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Everyone's Talking at Me.....I Think I Hear Every Word They Say.

Reparto

Gene Hackman	...	Harry Caul
John Cazale	...	Stan
Allen Garfield	...	William P. 'Bernie' Moran
Frederic Forrest	...	Mark
Cindy Williams	...	Ann
Michael Higgins	...	Paul
Elizabeth MacRae	...	Meredith
Teri Garr	...	Amy Fredericks
Harrison Ford	...	Martin Stett
Mark Wheeler	...	Receptionist
Robert Shields	...	The Mime
Phoebe Alexander	...	Lurleen

También conocida como:

La conversación (Spain) [es]

Duración:

113 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono | Dolby Digital (restored version)

Clasificación:

Spain:18 | Portugal:M/12 | South Korea:15 | Brazil:14 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Ireland:15 | Norway:16 | Singapore:PG | Sweden:15 | UK:12 (re-rating) (2002) | UK:15 (video rating) (1988) | UK:AA (original rating) | USA:PG | West Germany:16

Locaciones de Filmación:

Alamo Square, Hayes Valley, San Francisco, California, USA

Compañía:

American Zoetrope

Trivialidades:

Coppola had written the outline in 1966 but couldn't get financing until The Godfather (1972) became a success.

Errores:

Continuidad: Partygoers ride Stan's scooter around Caul's loft, but Stan had taken the scooter when he quit the day before. Stan came to the party in the car with everyone else so the scooter would not have been there.

Citas:

Mark: Does it bother you?
Ann: What?
Mark: Walking around in circles.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003)

Banda de Sonido:

To Each His Own

Everyone's Talking at Me.....I Think I Hear Every Word They Say.

Enigmatic, frustrating, confusing, intelligent and overall extremely brilliant work by writer/director Francis Ford Coppola (Oscar-nominated for his screenplay) has surveillance expert Gene Hackman recording a conversation between Cindy Williams and Frederic Forrest. It immediately appears that the duo are having an affair behind Williams' very wealthy husband's (a cameo by Robert Duvall) back. However nothing is quite as cut and dry as it seems. Hackman, a devout Catholic, has a bout of conscience as he worries that Duvall might have deviant plans for his wife and her apparent lover. Apparently Hackman's work had meant the lives of some he had spied on many years earlier in New York and he is shown as a quiet man who has some loud personal demons within his soul. The suspense builds when Hackman is followed by Duvall's shady employee (Harrison Ford) and eventually the heat rises to a boil as all the very loose ends are tied together in a wickedly twisted final act. "The Conversation" was Coppola's other film from 1974 (remember Best Picture Oscar winner "The Godfather, Part II"?). With this movie, Coppola created arguably the two best films of that dominant cinematic campaign (of course Roman Polanski's "Chinatown" would have something to say about that). Hackman delivers a deceptively difficult and dark performance as a man who seems to be self-destructing slowly on the inside out. By the end "The Conversation" is a thought-provoking product that will chill you to the bone with its cold elements. 5 stars out of 5.