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...CONVERSATION Directed and Written by FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA...
...simplest level, The Conversation works as a subtle psychological thriller to which Coppola has given a musical construction. The conversation in the park is replayed at intervals throughout the movie-like a theme that gains color and resonance from what has preceded and surrounds it. The conversation begins to crumble Caul's rigorous defenses, and threatens the careful distance that he preserves between his profession and his conscience. Harry's misgivings are refracted in a series of visual metaphors: the confessional, for instance, becomes not only a tentative purging but also another ritual of ruptured privacy, of secrets...
Directed by JACK CLAYTON Screenplay by FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA...
...novel but entirely misses its spirit. Much of Fitzgerald's prose has been preserved, especially in Nick Carraway's narration, but it only gives the film a stilted, stuffy tone that is reinforced by the dialogue. Fitzgerald wrote dialogue to be read, not said; and the Coppola screenplay (much rejuggled by Director Clayton) treats Fitzgerald's lines with untoward reverence. When Daisy sighs, "We were so close in our month of love," she sounds like a kid in a creative-writing course reading her first short story aloud...
...Evans has made himself the hottest reputation in Hollywood by insisting maniacally on the final cut-or editing privilege-on films. He also immerses himself in every decision on casting, musical scoring. There are directors who find his intrusions insupportable, but Francis Ford Coppola, who fought some heroic struggles with him in the course of The Godfather, ended with a genuine respect for him. Coppola lengthened his final version of the picture perilously because Bob thought "all the humanity and warmth had gone out of it." Evans knew what Coppola had sliced from his film because he watches the daily...