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  1. At the end of the movie he tears his apartment down looking for a bug, but can't find one. That is because the bug is the camera that is shooting him, the microphone that is recording him, two elements that physically do not exist in his world.

  2. Dec 8, 2016 · The Watergate tapes have faded into history but The Conversation remains relevant and disturbing, because its true theme is (in Richard Hofstadter's famous phrase) the paranoid style in American politics.

  3. Jul 8, 2024 · The Conversation begins, as did The Godfather, with a general viewpoint which gradually closes into a particular focus: a zoom which starts high above a crowded square and ends on the figure of a man eavesdropping on a couple walking round the square.

  4. Film Discussion: The Conversation (1974) [Spoilers] There've been various discussions on this sub re: this film. Most of them discuss Harry's changing interpretations in one particular phrase: 'they'd KILL us if they had the chance' or 'they'd kill US if they had the chance'.

  5. The Conversation is a 1974 American neo-noir [2] mystery thriller film written, produced, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest, Harrison Ford, Teri Garr, and Robert Duvall. Hackman portrays a surveillance expert who faces a moral dilemma when his recordings ...

  6. Mar 22, 2022 · Perhaps predictably, the most famous movie about electronic eavesdropping ever made, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation (1974), ends with a telephone call.

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  8. Feb 4, 2001 · Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) gets down and dirty in "The Conversation." His colleagues in the surveillance industry think Harry Caul is such a genius that we realize with a little shock how bad he is at his job. Here is a man who is paid to eavesdrop on a conversation in a public place.