Episode 18: The Conversation

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Hey friends! This week we’re doing Otis’ birthday pick! We take it back to the 70s and New Hollywood and one of the greatest directors of all time… Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation”. This is the first time we dive deep into a classic film and it’s a banger of an episode. This movie is sick. Everything about this pod is excellent. There’s so much to talk about and we do our best to cover it all. As per usual… We break down the film and all the things we love about it. We gush about the technical aspects of the film, the storytelling, the directing… all of it. Gene Hackman kills it in this movie, too. There’s a reason why Coppola is so damn important to cinema and considered a master of filmmaking (and lots of it is visible in this flick). Even though we’ve both seen this film a few times… We actually come to some new revelations about it and blow our own minds. We also talk about the cultural relevance of the film and the synchronicity of its release with the Watergate scandal. We break down the plot twist, how well done it is and why it works. We talk about Coppola and the film’s influence, the history of the film getting made, the film’s themes such as surveillance, privacy, and paranoia. We dive deep into Harry Caul and how insanely weird and tragic he is as a character. We also manage to talk about the science fiction aspects of this film, New Hollywood, UFOs, privacy in the internet age, and a whole lot more. I don’t want to spoil this one… just listen to the dang podcast. It’s a good one. Oh... Just so you know... We’re finally hitting True Detective (Season 1) next week but it doesn’t really matter because time is a flat circle, right? INITIATE BIRD PROTOCOL! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram! Twitter: @plmrdr @otismorrisdude Instagram: @palmreadr @otismorrisdude

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