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“Feeling that the character was one-dimensional, Harrison Ford decided to play him as gay, a risky choice in 1974, and personally purchased the loud green silk suit for 900 dollars (4,285 in 2015 dollars). Francis Ford Coppola was at first shocked by the outfit at rehearsals, but after discussing it with Ford, was so impressed with this interpretation, that he expanded the role into a ing character, gave the character a name (Martin Stett) and had Production Designer Dean Tavoularis create an office that reflected the character's orientation.” - IMDb

fellas is it gay to wear a green suit and have a well-decorated office 🤔

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If loneliness had a sound it would be the score from this movie.

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gasped like an idiot at the reveal in this literally 50 year old movie. that’s cinema baby.

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I could probably only count on one hand the number of performances I find better than Gene Hackman's in The Conversation. Total, sustained alienation pervaded by frustration and guilt of profession, all internalized and instead seen through a drooping stance, an elongated eye-to-eye encounter with a pen placed in his front suit pocket, a wandering complexion. Harry's dream is so very important because it's the only moment where he truly speaks to another human being, and yet it isn't fueled by comion but by the bubbling guilt under the surface, only seen in compositions manipulated via negative space. Its main jump scare is one of the best, too.

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We're all alone in this world and everyone is listening.

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okay, quarantine be like???>????? hahaha but seriously haha weird to um, be alone and paranoid right now....
(to me? watching a movie is finding a way to make it about me....)

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Coppola and his lifelong editor/sound designer/friend Walter Murch were audio nerds who by all s originally set out to make a movie about a guy like them, someone who reads industry magazines and attends dorky tech conferences and takes pride in his private freelance craftsmanship; but once they started figuring out a more exciting cinematic entry point for a lonely, introverted character like this, and started packaging their ideas about what his responsibilities and culpabilities are to a larger nefarious surveillance state within the history of obsessive voyeurism in movies (Noir detectives, Rear Window, espionage movies, Blow Up, etc.) they ended up with one of the great sociological/political character studies that also operates as a paranoid psychological thriller of the…

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Holy shit man the music REALLY does its job here my godddddddddddddddddddddddddd