FILM 1134: THE CONVERSATION
TRIVIA: As Harry refines and
re-refines the recording, he interprets what he hears in different ways. In
fact, the dialog was recorded multiple times with different readings to get
this effect.
Gene Hackman later plays a
former NSA agent who is a surveillance expert in Enemy of the State (1998),
and the images of his character in his younger days are taken directly from
this film.
Originally envisioned as a horror
movie with Marlon Brando.
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and had a wardrobe picked out that was at least 10 years out of date.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.
Gene Hackman learned to
play the saxophone especially for the film.
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