Conversation no.1 by sandra46

Photography • Atmosphere/Mood • posted on Sep 04, 2009

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Description

This is a shot from one side of the large central flowerbed in the same Venetian walled garden. It was mid-May and the roses were at their best. The women chatting on the bench opposite to me were two of my mates at an eight- week seminar. As soon as I saw this shot I thought of the famous film The Conversation. In particular, the scene when Caul/Hackman and his associates follow a couple around a park using three separate microphones to listen to their conversation. The Conversation is a 1974 mystery thriller about audio surveillance, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It won the Golden Palm at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, and in 1995, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Coppola has cited Blowup (1966)by Michelangelo Antonioni,as a key influence on his conceptualization of the film's themes, such as surveillance versus participation, and perception versus reality. The film is the slowly-gripping, bleak study of electronic surveillance and threat of new technologies that is examined through the private, internalized life of a lonely and detached expert bugger. It was produced and released by director Francis Ford Coppola before and during the Wategate era (and between his two Godfather films) - a time of heightened concern over the violation of civil liberties. Its claustrophobic themes of the destruction of privacy, alienation, guilt, voyeurism, justified paranoia, unprincipled corporate power and personal responsibility effectively responded to growing, ominous 20th century threats of eavesdropping to personal liberties. This film has been influencial. In the X-Files episode "E.B.E.", FBI Agent Fox Mulder (played by David Duchovny), while searching for evidence of electronic surveillance in his apartment, tears his living quarters asunder in a manner similar to Harry Caul's ransacking of his own apartment. X-Files creator Chris Carter has acknowledged the scene was an homage to The Conversation. In series 1, episode 3 of British comedy Spaced, a man bearing a striking resemblance to Harry Caul can be seen listening to a conversation taking place in the main characters' flat. The Industrial music band Clock DVA uses an extended sample of a Harry Caul monologue on the track The Connection Machine from their 1989 album Buried Dreams. It also influenced the 1998 spy thriller Enemy of The State. More about that to come. Thank you for your kind comments.

Comments (39)

flora-crassella

10:26AM | Fri, 04 September 2009

wonderful scene!!!! ...and a interesting story!

Hendesse

10:32AM | Fri, 04 September 2009

A beautiful scene. Wonderful light and colors.

timtripp

10:39AM | Fri, 04 September 2009

marvelous..

mickeyrony

10:39AM | Fri, 04 September 2009

It is a scene of meditations. Nature this incredible savours which always dazzles us. Cheer still my Beautiful. A splendid presentation. Mile mercies to divide the nobilities of your glances ((5++)) C'est une scène de recueillements . La nature cette incroyable saveurs qui nous éblouit toujours . Bravo encore ma Belle .Une magnifique présentation . Mile mercis de partager les noblesses de tes regards ((5++))

flaviok

10:45AM | Fri, 04 September 2009

Infelismente a privacidade esta cada vez mais esposta, o direito da invasão parece um caminho sem volta. Narrativa e foto magnificas minha amiga, aplausos (5)