#The parallax view series
Pakula and Willis explore this disconcerting theme in a series of spectacular setpieces: the slaying of a promising candidate (and eventually, the gunman) atop Seattle's towering Space Needle the Parallax Corporation's attempt to mold Frady into a murderous pawn with a barrage of mindbending agitprop imagery (a famous sequence that has been pilfered countless times) and a carefully staged setup in which yet another pol is gunned down as he rides into a convention center on a golf cart, which then veers off its course and cuts a symbolic swath through an array of dinner tables decked out to resemble the American flag. As Frady ruefully observes, "Every time you turned around, some nut was knockin' off one of the best men in the country." leaders such as John and Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. Shot during the apex of the Watergate era, this existential tale ominously echoes the real-life murders of prominent U.S. The film follows a doggedly determined newspaper reporter, Joe Frady (Warren Beatty), who goes undercover, doubters be damned, to expose the insidious activities of the Parallax Corporation, a covert organization striving to engineer a seismic shift in the power structure of the United States through a series of ruthless political assassinations. Pakula and photographed with considerable panache by Gordon Willis, ASC. Few motion pictures have captured this gnawing sense of suspicion better than The Parallax View , a moody 1974 thriller directed by Alan J. While The X-Files is the current obsession of armchair conspiracy theorists everywhere, paranoia has long served as an intriguing cinematic subject.
Highly recommended.Behind the scenes of the iconic 1974 thriller, photographed by Gordon Willis, ASC. 'The Parallax View' is still one of the most intelligent, tense and effective conspiracy thrillers ever made, and the direction by the late Alan J. It just didn't have the subtlety that this one has, and spelled everything out, seeming assuming its audience wasn't bright enough to get it.
#The parallax view movie
Much of 'The Parallax View' was later used in 'Arlington Road', an unconvincing movie which was much too contrived for me to be believable. Also keep an eye out for the legendary Bill McKinney (who nobody who's ever seen 'Deliverance' will forget!) as an assassin, Anthony Zerbe ('The Omega Man') as a psychologist (playing Pong with a chimp!), and Earl Hindman ('The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three') in the bar fight scene. Veteran Hume Cronyn ('Shadow Of A Doubt') plays Beatty's editor, Paula Prentiss ('The Stepford Wives') a hysterical fellow journalist, and William Daniels (Dustin Hoffman's father in 'The Graduate') has a brief but memorable bit as another witness who fears for his life. Beatty gives a very subtle, relaxed performance, and for me is totally believable. It's shot through with post-Watergate cynicism and the Kennedy assassinations cast a long shadow over the plot. The movie has to be watched in the context of when it was made. 'The Parallax View' is THE definitive 1970s paranoid thriller, beaten only by Coppola's 'The Conversation', released incidentally the same year. When I hear mention of Warren Beatty these days I almost begin to snore, but before Beatty became a boring old fart he made a handful of very interesting and adventurous movies like 'Mickey One', 'McCabe & Mrs Miller' and 'The Parallax View', hardly safe Hollywood movie star material.
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