Conspiracy Thrillers | The Parallax View (1974)

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🗓️ 19 July 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In this full-episode preview of the fifth episode of Slate's Conspiracy Thrillers Movie Club, Sam Adams is joined by Matt Zoller Seitz, the editor in chief of RogerEbert.com and TV critic for New York, to talk about The Parallax View. They discuss the film’s famous brainwashing scene and the Kuleshov effect, the strange character of protagonist Joe Frady, and what makes a true paranoid thriller. To listen to the full episode and learn more about this Slate Plus members-only Movie Club, visit Slate.com/thrillers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello Culture Gabfest listeners. I'm Sam Adams, the editor of Slate's Browbeat Culture blog and the host of the Conspiracy Thriller's movie club, a podcast series exclusive to Slate Plus members.
0:10.0	In the club, I've been talking to some of the best culture critics around about some of the best conspiracy thrillers of the past few decades including all the president's men blowout and the conversation
0:20.4	Right now I've got the latest episode for you where I talk to New York magazine's
0:24.0	Matt Solar Sites about the paranoid classic The Parallax View.
0:28.0	To listen to all the episodes read essays on the films and join our Facebook group to talk
0:31.8	about the movies,
0:33.0	visit slate.com slash thrillers.
0:35.8	Enjoy the episode. I'm Sam Adams the senior senior editor at Slate, and this is the conspiracy thrillers movie club.
0:57.0	On this episode, we're talking about the Parallax View, which is one of the cornerstones, if not the cornerstone of the classic 1970s paranoid
1:04.9	thriller. Directed by Alan Pacula, who would go on to make the real life conspiracy thriller
1:09.9	all the President's men, also the subject of an episode in this series. It stars
1:14.3	Warren Beatty as Joe Frety, a small-time reporter who stumbles onto evidence that
1:19.1	the assassination of a presidential candidate was the work of the Parallax Corporation, a secretive and apparently
1:24.6	global organization that specializes in killers for hire.
1:28.3	He decides to infiltrate the organization by posing as a would-be assassin, but he has almost killed himself several times along the way,
1:34.7	and the closer he gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes.
1:38.0	It's a frightening and beautiful movie, and I'm glad to have Matt Zoller Sights here to talk about it with me.
1:43.0	Matt is the TV critic for New York magazine and the editor of Roger Ebert.com and he's also the author of several books
1:49.1	including the West Anderson Collection, the Oliver Stone Experience, and with Alan Seppenwall of TV the book.
1:55.2	Matt welcome to the club. Hey I should we be telling people that we're meeting
2:00.0	if this is a paranoid thriller shouldn't we not let anyone know? I think this is a paranoid thriller, shouldn't we not let anyone know?
2:03.6	I think this is a soundproof room.
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