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from Inside Hook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the Paranoid ’70s Thrillers of Alan J. Pakula Can Teach Us About 2020<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Revisiting the American director’s “Klute,” “All the President’s Men” and “The Parallax View”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0<\/strong>MONICA CASTILLO<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alan J. Pakula\u2019s 1970s \u201cparanoia trilogy\u201d connects to 2020.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Early in The Parallax View<\/em>, reporter Joe Frady (Warren Beatty) chases after clues to a string of mysterious deaths in a remote fishing town. The locals don\u2019t take kindly to the outsider asking questions, but the friendly sheriff intervenes and offers to take Frady to the spot where one of the victims drowned. Even though it looks like Joe\u2019s relieved for a break in his story, he\u2019s still on guard, nervously surveying the way people are looking at him and doubting the sheriff\u2019s assuring grin. Something\u2019s not right. When the sheriff takes Joe to the river, he pulls a gun, and it\u2019s up to Joe to figure a way out of a conspiracy into which he\u2019s suddenly thrust. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That heightened sense that no one can be trusted and that there are greater invisible forces at work help give Alan J. Pakula\u2019s \u201cparanoia trilogy\u201d of the 1970s its moniker. Starting with\u00a0Klute<\/em>\u00a0in 1971, followed by\u00a0The Parallax View<\/em>in 1974, and ending with\u00a0All the President\u2019s Men<\/em>\u00a0in 1976, Pakula\u2019s films paint a bleak picture of a nation united in chaos. These movies reacted to the tumult ushered in by the Watergate scandal. The Pentagon Papers had revealed a number of ugly truths about the Vietnam War and exposed the existence of COINTELPRO, an illegal FBI surveillance program that intended to destabilize leftist political groups. One of Pakula\u2019s films reckons with the ordeal explicitly: in\u00a0All the President\u2019s Men<\/em>,\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) piece together the full story behind the Watergate breakin. The other two are more subtle in their approach. In\u00a0Klute<\/em>, sex worker Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda) quickly learns that she can\u2019t rely on police protection to rid her of a dangerous stalker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Inside Hook What the Paranoid ’70s Thrillers of Alan J. Pakula Can Teach Us About 2020 Revisiting the American director’s “Klute,” “All the President’s Men” and “The Parallax View” BY\u00a0MONICA CASTILLO Early in The Parallax View, reporter Joe Frady (Warren Beatty) chases after clues to a string of mysterious deaths in a remote fishing town. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}