When J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg) and the girl enter his apartment after the introductory card trick, a Shrike poster with a dove can be seen on his wall.
The Parallax View - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Second consecutive back-to-back motion picture where star Warren Beatty portrayed a character called "Joe" as this had been his name in his previous movie $ (1971) with Goldie Hawn.$
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The acronym "PEP" stood for "pulmonary embolism pill".
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The five years preceding the release of this film saw the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the Chicago and Watts riots,the release of the Pentagon Papers, the Watergate scandal, and the difficult end to the Vietnam war. The Parallax View reflected much of the tension of the time. It was released at the time that the people were eager to put such things behind them, and to focus on being the "me generation" - one focused more on pleasure and self-indulgence (evinced by the disco era) and with a desire to avoid lowbrow issues.
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Due to star Warren Beatty's limited availability due to scheduling, the picture had to start filming when it did, despite the fact that there wasn't a completed script ready at the time.
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At the suggestion of actor Warren Beatty and screenwriter David Giler, the profession of Beatty's character of Joseph Frady was changed from a police officer to a newspaper journalist.
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First film that star Warren Beatty was seen in for around three years with Beatty's last at the time having been $ (1971). In between, Beatty was involved raising finance and political campaigning for presidential candidate George McGovern who was unsuccessful in becoming the President of the United States of America.$
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During production, Warren Beatty directed a few scenes but didn't receive any official credit.
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A parallax refers to the difference in perspective of an object when seen from different view points. An example would be how two people standing some distance apart would have a different view of the same tree. The idea of looking at the same issue with different view points is a recurring theme of this movie. The assassination sequence at the start of the film unintentionally demonstrates this. The camera angle on the roof makes it appear that the assassin falls off the roof, but in the subsequent shot - a long distance shot of the space needle - you can clearly see that the deck extends beyond the domed roof.
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Alan J. Pakula asked for an empty banquet room, to increase the nightmarish side of the final scene. The producers accepted because that permitted them to avoid paid extras to fill the room.
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This is one of a trilogy of thrillers directed by Alan J. Pakula, along with Klute (1971) and All the President's Men (1976). This was the only one not released by Warner Bros. Pictures and the only one to not win any Academy Awards or nominations.
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The scene with Anthony Zerbe and the chimp inspired the Al Franken pong sketches on Saturday Night Live (1975).
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The film was part of a cycle of 1970s conspiracy movies. These included: Executive Action (1973), Klute (1971), Chinatown (1974), Cutter's Way (1981), Telefon (1977), Winter Kills (1979), The Conversation (1974), The Parallax View (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975), The Domino Principle (1977), Good Guys Wear Black (1978), Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977), Hangar 18 (1980), Capricorn One (1977), and All the President's Men (1976). Blow Out (1981) would follow in the early 1980s.
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Warren Beatty campaigned for Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. Kennedy's assassination was an inspiration for this story.
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Prior to a film writers' strike, screenwriter David Giler was hired to do re-writes. Director Alan J. Pakula spent a large amount of time during the production shoot being involved with the film's re-writes.
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In the opening sequence at the Space Needle, a news cameraman is holding a TV camera with a KOMO 4 logo on it. KOMO 4 is an actual Seattle TV station (ABC affiliate), whose broadcasting center is located just across the street from the Space Needle.
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The opening sequence had some similarities to that of Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination. Kennedy was shot when passing through a kitchen following a speech at the ballroom of a hotel.
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Though Beatty and Earl Hindman are fighting in the bar as Joe and Deputy Red respectively, the real person skilled in hand to hand combat is the woman playing Gale the waitress - Doria Cook-Nelson, who's studied martial arts for over forty years.
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One of a number of Warren Beatty movies where Robert Towne has acted as a writer. These include Bonnie and Clyde (1967), The Parallax View (1974), and Heaven Can Wait (1978).
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The film's director Alan J. Pakula described the picture as "sort of an American myth based on some things that have happened, some fantasies we may have had of what might have happened, and a lot of fears a lot of us have had . . . The Parallax View was a whole other kind of filmmaking for me".
The Parallax View - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Parallax View - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Parallax View - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Parallax View - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Parallax View - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Parallax View - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Parallax View - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Parallax View - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Parallax View - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Parallax View - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Parallax View - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Parallax View - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Parallax View - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Parallax View - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Parallax View - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Parallax View - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Parallax View - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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