Un journaliste ambitieux enquêtant sur l'assassinat d'un sénateur le conduit à une vaste conspiration impliquant une multinationale derrière chaque événement.Un journaliste ambitieux enquêtant sur l'assassinat d'un sénateur le conduit à une vaste conspiration impliquant une multinationale derrière chaque événement.Un journaliste ambitieux enquêtant sur l'assassinat d'un sénateur le conduit à une vaste conspiration impliquant une multinationale derrière chaque événement.
- Récompenses
- 2 victoires et 3 nominations
- Senator Charles Carroll
- (as Bill Joyce)
- Mrs. Charles Carroll
- (as Bettie Johnson)
- Chrissy - Frady's Girl
- (as JoAnne Harris)
- Gale from Salmontail
- (as Doria Cook)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesThe film's director Alan J. Pakula described the picture as "sort of an American myth based on some things that have happened, some fantasies we may have had of what might have happened, and a lot of fears a lot of us have had . . . The Parallax View was a whole other kind of filmmaking for me".
- GaffesIn the opening Independence Day parade sequence, there are no leaves on the tree branches visible as the senator and his wife pass by, but the leaves would be full and green on July 4th in Seattle.
- Citations
Bill Rintels: [after Frady's run-in with police] You're enjoying yourself, aren't you.
Joseph Frady: You gotta admit, it's funny.
Bill Rintels: It makes me laugh, but I don't think it's funny.
Joseph Frady: What's that supposed to mean?
Bill Rintels: Have you ever laughed at a comedian when he pretended to stutter? There's nothing funny about a man who stutters, but people laugh. They're amused. But they're not happy about it.
- ConnexionsFeatured in Ralph Super-héros: The Shock Will Kill You (1982)
- Bandes originalesButtons and Bows
Written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
If that hypothesis holds any water, this is one of its impressive works. Made shortly after Watergate, and less than a decade after the JFK assassination, this envisions conspiracies and assassinations not as a disruption of, but a cornerstone of the American establishment.
This is, in a sense, not a POLITICAL conspiracy thriller. The US government, or that of any other country, is presented as merely a dope of a greater power- that of the big corporations of whatever stripe. This is a dystopian capitalist democracy- one in which representatives are elected to "officially" be as clueless as the general populace about the real social reality around them.
Perhaps the most subversive thing about this very subversive film is that the assassinations don't seem catastrophic, or even troubling. When one takes place, the victim politician is basically a walking sound bite. His sacrifice seems only the continuation of a ritual of banal brutality.
In one scene, a film is shown that is supposed to condition the viewer to murderous obedience. It is a montage of images of Americana, including those of violence and oppression. In most '70s conspiracy thrillers, the evil that lurked beneath the surface had a predatory relation to the commonly understood reality. People were putting their trust in a machine that was not what it seemed. Here, the evil is the surface. America IS the conspiracy.
DP Gordon Willis has never impressed me more. In his work with Woody Allen and Francis Coppola his show-offy use of shadow and in-the-frame lighting sources seemed at times to distract from the tone or theme of the film, as if Willis was only interested in defining his "look" regardless of its relation to the film's content. Here, it fits the tone of the film perfectly. The final scenes, largely devoid of dialog, in a hall filled with terrifyingly "patriotic" imagery, is gorgeous. Many of the shots reminded me of de Cherico paintings.
- treywillwest
- 11 août 2016
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- Montant brut mondial
- 2 942 $US