Давно слышала об этом фильме, и после выпуска Inside The Actors Studio с Копполой, решила обратиться к его фильмографии.
Фрэнсис говорил, что он всегда мечтал в первую очередь снимать авторское кино.
Поэтому ошеломляющий успех "Крестного отца", за которого он взялся нехотя, немного неправильно задал тон того, чего он хотел снимать.
Ирония в том, что его в первую очередь будут помнить именно за этот фильм, ахах.
С минимальным бюджетом, и опять же, в необычайно стрессовых условиях, он тем не менее создал шедевр, вошедший в историю.
И одна из причин его успеха - это как раз черты авторского кино, личного присутствия, очень тонко запечатленного на пленку.
Этот фильм, не сразу расположил меня к себе. Но через некоторое время, оторваться от интриги на экране было невозможно.
Опять же герой одиночка, по словам Копполы, близкий по ментальности к нему самому.
Джин Хэкмен - актер солидный, да. Обычно я вижу его в роли неких таких устрашающих героев.
А тут именно эта роль - полная противоположность его привычным образам, наконец-то,
раскрыла его для меня как актера.
Reportedly Gene Hackman's favorite movie in which he has acted and Francis Ford Coppola's personal favorite of his movies.
In the last scene where Harry tears apart his apartment, Francis Ford Coppola stated on the commentary that he has no idea where the bug is.
Two ideas he mentioned were the saxophone strap, or that there was no bug and Harry was delusional.
читать дальшеIn the last shot of the movie, the camera pans from right to left and pulls back, just like a surveillance camera would do.
When Harry Caul turns on the TV in the Jack Tar Hotel to blot out the sound of the murder in the neighboring room, the broadcaster is talking about Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal - itself triggered by a notorious piece of bugging.
Gene Hackman learned to play the saxophone especially for the film.
Gene Hackman's character was to have been named Harry Call, but a typing error led to his being name Harry Caul and the name stuck.
The part of Martin Stett, played by Harrison Ford, was originally intended by Francis Ford Coppola to be a minor cameo but Ford's performance convinced Coppola to make the character an integral part of the movie.
David Shire's original music was composed prior to production and played for the actors prior to their scenes to get them into the proper moods.
Gene Hackman was a fit, good-looking relatively young man when Francis Ford Coppola cast him as Harry Caul.
In order to personify Harry's weary, aging, and unhappy existence, Hackman grew a pathetic-looking mustache, wore ill-fitting glasses, and had a wardrobe picked out that was at least 10 years out of date.
Coppola specifically told Hackman he wanted Harry to look like a "nudnik", a Yiddish word referring to a person who is boring and a pest.
Harry Caul tells Amy that he is 42. The birthday card with the bottle of wine says Happy 44th Birthday. Gene Hackman was 44 when the movie came out.
Gene Hackman later plays a former NSA agent who is a surveillance expert in Враг государства (1998), and the images of his character in his younger days are taken directly from this film.
Coppola had written the outline in 1966 but couldn't get financing until Крёстный отец (1972) became a success.
Originally envisioned as a horror movie with Marlon Brando.