The Conversation

Are you serious? At this point I think Coppola is an industry plant. Godfather is a different story. It’s based on a novel. Can he structure a movie? Yes. Does he rely on major actors to carry the movie? Also yes. Now as for this movie, it’s very bland. The story is not moving forward. If you want to explore morality and religion you do it through conversations or the actions the character makes. In this case we just briefly see him being religious by going to church once and not liking god’s name to be used in vein. That’s it. He’s shown as being careful, yet a he plays the tape for a woman he just met. The ending is nice unlike his other movie apocalypse now. We realize that perspective is everything. Nice little twist. But it doesn’t redeem this movie for me. Using Harrison ford and Robert Duvall for what? A couple of scenes? He used them to sell the movie. This is just my thoughts on the movie as a movie. I can appreciate how it portrays and kind of predicts the lack of privacy, corporate espionage, and surveillance but he is not making a documentary here he’s making a movie. For this message to be sent through a movie, the movie needs to be good. In this case it’s not. After watching all the godfathers, apocalypse now, and this I am starting to think that Coppola is an average filmmaker and a bad writer.