Karyn Kusama on THE PARALLAX VIEW
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- A corporation devoted to political assassinations?! What seemed pretty far out to some critics in 1974 doesn't look quite so unlikely nearly 40 years later. The second entry in what has been called Alan Pakula's political paranoia trilogy (following Klute and preceding All the President's Men) benefits from striking Gordon Willis camerawork and a sharp script co-written by an uncredited Robert Towne.
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Retrospective review from my 10 year old self back in 77, The Parallax View blew my mind along with 3 Days of the Condor, Phase IV, Zabriskie Point, Electra Glide in Blue and oh, let's not forget Charley Varrick 😁
Great selection! Especially Phase IV is totally underrated.
Thanks, I didn't know about a couple of these movies.
C Varrick was brilliantly bizarre. Did Matthau read the shooting script before signing on? Perhaps not. Segal made his point with Varrick and it was a very disturbing take on compromised protagonists.
Masterpiece. Even more relevant in 2020! ;-)
Just saw this for the first time tonight on the beautiful Criterion Blu-ray and I adored it.
This was one of the best films of the seventies. Excellent supporting cast in Cronyn, Daniels, Mars, McGinn, and this is Paula Prentiss' finest performance. Willis as DP was wonderful in his use of darkness and shadows. I don't think Pakula ever directed better. The opening murder is modeled on the RFK assassination. And that is why Beatty starred in it. The framing device of the two commissions is perfect. You come away thinking, that is what happened to the sixties.
Fantastic film and my favorite Warren Beatty flick. This was a great paranoia precursor to All the President's Men.
I think The Paralax View is one of the underrated Hollywood studio films of the nineteen seventies.It's a deeply unsettling and engrossing political thriller directed a true legend of the political thriller genre,the late great Alan J Pakula..and it's still feels relevant today as it did back then.
I don't worry about the ones that hide in the shadows trying to keep their secrets hid from us. I worry about those who do things right in front of us and expect us to accept what is going on as normal.
Like COVID was meant to kill all 65+ of the planet?
🎯🎯🎯
Forget Bonnie and Clyde. This is Warren at his very best
I think I’ve gotta go MCCABE.
this move is lots to say. I believe the topic is more believable today then back in 1970's
One of the greats
LOVE this movie!
Spot on lady... xxx :-)
PERFECT EXPLANATION!!!
I'm impressed!!
Hii karyn, long time no see. I love some of your movies you've directed, never knew eon was one of them.
I just bought a digital copy of this movie.
This one, "Suddenly" and "Manchurian Candidate" were the 3 great assassination/conspiracy films of the 50s/60s/70s and still hold up to this day. Don't miss the amazing "slide-show personality analysis" segment and ask yourself: would Parallax hire Dick Cheney? Would they hire YOU?
Seven Days In May is up there too, along with The Conversation and the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Yes, too many viewers seem to think that that scene was a "brainwashing" sequence. Anyone with an ounce of perception would have known that it was a test to see if WB's reactions matched how he had filled out the Parallax job application.
Good movie 📼
This film is Warren Beatty at his best. He has a great script, director, supporting actors, and, one of the very best segments in film history, the creepy voice instructing him to just remain still and do not move or say anything until it is over with.
The instructions, for once, are not necessary or ever difficult to folliw. This masterpiece of film making, this portion, always demands your full attention, and as we age, the importance of its meanings, the perfection of music bringing film to life, is brilliant. I watch every now and then, and am amazed how it affects me still.
It's one of my favourite films to chill with. The tempo is so understated, the photography so calming and the music so haunting...In every shot by Willis you can discover something new every time. The burglary in the deputy's house when the phone rings and the deputy himself answers is an example of how just 2 shots can have a way bigger shock effect than a rapid editing of towards a climax in current movies. Less is more. It makes it a ducu-style film with amazing realism, just like The Godfather. And to think this was merely exercise of what came after: All the Presidents Men, the greatest thriller of all time.
Very good movie. You have to watch it to understands it.
Yeah, it is. Weird and offbeat, too.
I fucking loved this movie
Definitely remember it on tv 30 years ago at about same time as “Winter Kills”, are they similar 🤔?
Have you seen Three Days of the Condor ?
Well said
you understand!!!
Such a cool movie
watched a few times on HBO in the late 70s, tense and ambiguous. I always thought I was missing something, so never looked away. A Sonic experience as well as visual film. my conclusion then was it was farfetched. fast forward, ah, not so much, but with different players.
beatty at his best
he should do a thriller and not the recent light stuff
He's made of silicone, with a wig on top. I suspect he may have dementia too.
What????
The main protagonist was led to the point of assassination, he was not brainwashed ....
Thomas Crooks . He didn't earn the 3 name privilege.
enjoyed you thoughts on the movie, thank you. really to bad most AMERICANS will never see this movie
The movie is on Prime Video.
Just watched it last night on Amazon's Prime.
Tighten up your introduction and your point will have more impact. Yes indeed business "interests" run and control the USA. The executive, legislative, judicial operations are under their control.
Never heard of this movie
The film is almost ruined by the idiotic bar fight.
jaye see I thought the bar fight was fun and didn’t ruin anything. Ironically, the waitress Warren and Earl fight over is a karate expert in real life. Probably could’ve kicked both their asses. Lol.
I think the bar fight was to suggest that Joe was actually getting somewhere with his charms. It was more than effective. I wouldn't change a frame of this film.
@@jenniferkilzer5080 Americans, Eh?
I wish the film industry wasn't full of socialist cliches.
its mostly made of Liberal cliches, hollywood wiped out the socialists back in the 60s.
What?
made by socialists for socialists, except they all became corporatists when the offer was high enough