Episode 377: The Parallax View (1974)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 203 minutes

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Summary

Alan J. Pakula's, The Parallax View (1974) stars Warren Beatty as reporter Joe Frady. After a mysterious series of deaths, Frady gets embroiled in an investigation that leads him to The Parallax Corporation, a shady company that finds and recruits sociopaths in order to use them as assassins.

Interviews this episode include actor William Daniels and his wife Bonnie Bartlett, author Barna Donovan (Conspiracy Films: A Tour of Dark Places in the American Conscious), and filmmaker Shane O'Sullivan (RFK Must Die).

Jess Byard and Chris Stachiw join Mike to discuss the Loren Singer book, the Lorenzo Semple Jr. script, the David Giler rewrite and the eventual final product.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise. Uh, yes, Lee, how are you?
0:31.2	Senator Carroll, just fine, thank you. Welcome to our city.
0:33.8	Wow! our city.
0:46.9	Since the assassination, six of these people have died in some kind of an accident.
0:50.3	There is no evidence of a conspiracy.
0:56.6	These people were killed, and whoever killed them is going to try to kill me.
0:59.8	Austin thinks that maybe we all saw something up there.
1:03.8	We're in the business of reporting the news, not creating it.
1:08.0	You've been asking questions about me and things you know nothing about.
1:10.8	What I know is I need a good alias and I need a good idea.
1:12.4	Who are you?
1:14.1	You know there for a moment.
1:15.5	I thought you were a man.
1:19.1	Ah!
1:25.8	My life is in danger just being here.
1:31.4	And whoever's behind this is in the business of recruiting assassins.
1:33.7	I think I got some of their entrance exams.
1:35.4	Congratulations, Richard.
1:41.2	You've had some very interesting scores on the first series of tests for parallax.
1:44.4	You know, your tests suggest that you have remarkable talents.
1:51.2	In a risk situation, I believe you'll go right down the line.
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