Not Privy to The Conversation: Harry Caul as a Peripheral Character in Coppola's Film
Not Privy to The Conversation: Harry Caul as a Peripheral Character in Coppola’s Film Michael T. Smith | May 2020 In 1974, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation opened to nearly unanimous acclaim. The story was formed after filmmaker Ivan Kershner sent Coppola an article about a sound wizard named Hal Lipset (who was later summoned east to analyze the notorious eighteen-minute “blank” section of White House tape during the Watergate Investigations). Regarding surveillance technology, film scholar Turner finds a social dimension surrounding works like Coppola’s, statin...