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The Conversation Quotes
2,504 words, approx. 8 pages
 The Conversation is a 1974 film about a paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert who has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered. Written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola . Harry Caul will...




| Name: |
Francis Ford Coppola | | Birth Date: |
April 7, 1939 | | Place of Birth: |
Detroit, Michigan, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
director, writer |
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Biography of Francis Ford Coppola
5194 words, approx. 17.3 pages
 Francis Ford Coppola is one of the first and most successful graduates of the California film schools. Like many of his peers, he has been fascinated with movies since childhood and has drawn on the whole of American film culture as inspiration for his w...
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Biography of Francis Ford Coppola
4579 words, approx. 15.3 pages
 Francis Ford Coppola rests in an elite company of American film directors who often write their own screenplays and at times produce their own movies. He has won five Academy Awards and was the first director ever to win the Golden Palm Award at the Cann...
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Biography of Francis Ford Coppola
1591 words, approx. 5.3 pages
 Schooled in low-budget filmmaking, Francis Ford Coppola (born 1939) has gone on to direct some of the most financially successful and critically acclaimed movies in U.S. cinematic history. Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather and its two seque...



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The Conversation Information
1,721 words, approx. 6 pages
 The Conversation is an Academy Award nominated 1974 mystery thriller about audio surveillance, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Teri Garr, and Cindy Williams; it also features an early performance by...




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 Social Research
Conversation.
09/22/1998: 1,932 words, approx. 6 pages William Cowper, English poet of the 18th century, is probably best known for lyrics of despair and isolation. Among these poems are "I am monarch of all I survey" and "The Task." The observations include matters of conversation from a poem written in July...
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 Catholic Insight
Conversion.
11/01/2006: 1,470 words, approx. 5 pages It was a relatively typical e-mail. "You are now part of a cult, and an anti-Christian cult at that," it said. "You pray to dead people, you worship statues, you love Mary more than Jesus, you obey a Pope who is the anti-Christ,...
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Wis. murder case takes turn on cause
1/10/2008: 586 words, approx. 2 pages The pathologist who did the initial autopsy on a woman whose husband is accused of killing her says he now believes she was suffocated.Michael Chambliss, the former Waukesha County medical examiner, testified Tuesday that he had changed his mind since taking the stand Monday in...
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Bush discusses Lebanon with Hariri
6/4/2007: 305 words, approx. 1 pages President Bush spoke from Air Force One Monday with Saad Hariri, leader of the majority party in Lebanon's parliament, partly about the Lebanese Army's showdown with Palestinian militants.National security adviser Stephen Hadley, speaking to reporters as Bush was traveling to Prague, said that Hariri requested...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by David Denby
1,427 words, approx. 5 pages
 The Conversation is remarkably ambitious and serious—a Hitchcockian thriller, a first-rate psychological portrait of a distinctive modern villain (a professional eavesdropper) and a bitter attack on American business values, all in one movie. I feel that Coppola has partially botched the thriller, but the film is a triumph none the less—gritty, complex, idiosyncratic…. The Conversation, which is about a man rather like Watergate bugger James McCord, profits from the great American natio...
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Critical Essay by James W. Palmer
1,316 words, approx. 4 pages
 Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation is a perplexing film about a wiretapper named Harry Caul who becomes involved in a murder. Harry is less a character in the traditional sense than he is a symbol or cipher for modern man immersed in a technological society that undermines human values and thwarts human needs. As a technician in this dehumanizing environment, Harry seems unwilling or unable to relate to people or to take the moral action necessary to change his life or even save the lives of oth...
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Critical Essay by William S. Pechter
921 words, approx. 3 pages
 [The Conversation calls strongly to mind] Antonioni's 1966 film, Blow-Up. Though this is most obvious in the actual "blow-up" (i.e., tape-deciphering) sequence itself, the resemblance extends from the painterly look of the film (some of the shots in Harry's apartment have an almost Vermeer-like quality of sculptured light) to such small details as the appearance of a mime in the opening sequence who seems to constitute a quite pointed reference to the mimes whose appearances brac...


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