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Actors: Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Tucker, Paula Prentiss
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Parallax View |
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THE PARALLAX VIEW is a film produced and directed by Alan J. Pakula in 1974.
Three years after the murder of Senator Hammond, a journalist tells Warren Beatty that almost half of the people present at the time of the assassination have died in accidents or from seemingly natural causes since. After the death of the informant, Beatty decides to investigate himself. He'll finally discover that the Parallax organization appears to be the center of a secret conspiracy against politicians who are not, let's say, politically correct.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Parallax View |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 70%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Legal/Political Thriller?
Yes
Political Plotlets:
- investigating murder of politician(s)
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- journalist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- longhair/girliemon (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) bald
Body type
- very skinny (man)
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Pacific NW
Water?
Yes
Water:
- river
Air?
Yes
Air:
- passenger plane
Misc setting
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- poisoning
- dropped from large heights
- drowned
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding vehicles
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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