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Not Privy to The Conversation: Harry Caul as a Peripheral Character in Coppola’s Film
Michael T. Smith
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May 2020
In 1974, Francis Ford Coppola’s
The Conversation opened to nearly unanimous acclaim. The story was formed after filmmaker Ivan Kershner sent Coppola an article about a sound wizard named Hal Lipset (who was later summoned east to analyze the notorious eighteen-minute “blank” section of White House tape during the Watergate Investigations). Regarding surveillance technology, film scholar Turner finds a social dimension surrounding works like Coppola’s, stating that “electronic surveillance techniques and strategies influence the entire social order.”
1 The goal of Coppola’s film was to present the story of a man at work in such a field.
December 17, 2020
In August, a tweet from comedian Randy Rainbow resurfaced, sparking controversy: “Why is it OK to call it a ‘white noise’ machine, yet offensive to say that I bought it to drown out all the ‘black noise’ in my building?” At the end of June, a white woman was recorded shouting at her new neighbors for being noisy, calling them the n-word even though they were white. And in mid-June, in the midst of Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality, Donald Trump tweeted “THE SILENT MAJORITY IS STRONGER THAN EVER!!!” These instances are only a few in a long line of events this year that demonstrate an American myth that intertwines white dominance with silence.