The Conversation Francis Ford Coppola

Director Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 masterpiece The Conversation (released in the same year as a film that many consider to be Coppola’s magnum opus, The Godfather Part II), tells the story of Gene Hackman’s Harry Caul, a surveillance specialist...

When one thinks of a famous, all-hailed, top surveyor in the nation, one may think of a reserved, ordered and, most importantly, an incredibly fulfilled individual. After all, to attain a similar status in not only the surveillance field but in...

In Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 film, The Conversation, the element of sound functions as a fundamental aspect of each scene. The addition of sound or absence thereof works to underscore the main character, Harry Caul’s, fraught emotions and...