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Post by hi224 on Nov 4, 2017 21:49:10 GMT
Movies here?.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Nov 4, 2017 22:40:43 GMT
We were just talking about '70s paranoia on another thread.
Two of the best having to do specifically with government participation in skullduggery and coverup were:
All the President's Men (1976 - real)
The Parallax View (1974 - imagined)
And before there was Oliver Stone's JFK, there was Executive Action (1973), which depicted a theoretical coalition of right-wing oligarchs, politicians and intelligence figures conspiring to plan and carry out that assassination. Didn't think much of it when it came out, but seeing it again about 40 years later, it had more resonance, not so much with regard to that event but more so about the power of plutocracy.
And if you want to get down to where conspiracy figures into local government, you can't do better than Chinatown (1974).
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Post by Richard Kimble on Nov 4, 2017 22:55:05 GMT
Homicidal dolphins?
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Post by teleadm on Nov 4, 2017 23:01:02 GMT
I may be out of line here, but they were made in the 1970s...
Soylent Green 1973
Westworld 1973
The Conversation 1974
The Andromeda Strain 1971
Black Sunday 1976
Two-minute Warning 1976, yes it's a horrible movie, but the subject of a lone gunman, is making it actuallity.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Nov 4, 2017 23:09:20 GMT
Pha and Bea! (And George and Trish.) |
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 4, 2017 23:22:20 GMT
The Parallax View tops the list for me.
Not a political conspiracy film, but remember these lines from The Godfather?
Michael: My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator.
Kay Adams: Do you know how naïve you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don’t have men killed.
Michael: Oh. Who’s being naïve, Kay?
Not in the book, I don't think.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Nov 4, 2017 23:28:50 GMT
Another very enjoyable one of the decade, while depicting conspiracy that intrudes upon, rather than arises from, government was 1978's Invasion Of the Body Snatchers.
The very notion is literally yet humorously articulated in a brief exchange between Jeff Goldblum as intense poet Jack Bellicec and Donald Sutherland as public health official Matthew Bennell, who is frustrated by the runaround he gets when trying to report a fatal street accident.
JACK: "It's a conspiracy."
MATTHEW: "What is?"
JACK: "Everything."
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 5, 2017 0:41:42 GMT
Maybe The Anderson Tapes?
Catch-22 (1970) has political paranoia. Milo Minderbinder Enterprises is the nucleus of the military-industrial complex. Heller used to say the book was about the Cold War, not WW2.
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Post by OldAussie on Nov 5, 2017 0:42:20 GMT
Adding -
3 Days of The Condor
Marathon Man
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 5, 2017 0:50:09 GMT
Adding - 3 Days of The Condor One of the best. It advances the idea that the US would go to war in the Middle East to obtain oil. I arrived for duty at Ft Meade in the spring of 1973. An armored cavalry unit there was painting its armored vehicles desert camouflage and preparing to deploy to Ft Bliss for desert warfare training. |
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Post by jervistetch on Nov 5, 2017 0:52:07 GMT
CAPRICORN ONE is a lot of fun and great fodder for the faked space mission conspiracists. Oh. And it has O.J. in it, too.
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Post by hi224 on Nov 5, 2017 3:45:43 GMT
Scorpio and Mackintosh man.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Nov 5, 2017 4:34:56 GMT
Do you mean The Day of the Dolphin (1973)?
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 5, 2017 4:51:19 GMT
Twilight's Last Gleaming?
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Nov 5, 2017 4:56:19 GMT
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Post by vegalyra on Nov 6, 2017 18:22:08 GMT
Already been mentioned, but All the President's Men, Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor...
Not mentioned yet, Klute, The Conversation, Marathon Man...
The death of Pakula (director of Klute, ATPM, and Parallax View almost strikes me as being a conspiracy. A steel pipe just randomly is struck by another car and goes through his windshield and basically decapitates the man? Geez.
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Post by koskiewicz on Nov 6, 2017 18:40:26 GMT
Z
The Parallax View
The Conversation (already mentioned)
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 6, 2017 18:52:45 GMT
Mention of Z makes me think of another Costa-Gavras film – State of Siege.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Nov 6, 2017 19:37:09 GMT
Winter Kills
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Post by hi224 on Nov 6, 2017 19:40:22 GMT
Mention of Z makes me think of another Costa-Gavras film – State of Siege. Nice shoutouts, would the confession count. |
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