My favorite Coppola film. And thank the Lord for Walter Murch! Even though we are instantly (from frame one!) complicit in the world of surveillance, the length of the shot also acts as a nice slope of experience taking us into Caul’s world. And, beautifully, we are observing HIM, not one of his jobs, thus drawing attention to our own act of watching. Considering the film’s themes, how could you do any better than that? Brilliant!

The idea as described by Murch — If I recall — was to make use of the ultra-long lens that would be the sort of visual equivalent of the long-range microphone; also, it is made possible by the use of a motorized zoom control, something relatively new at the time of the film I believe. Nice use of new technology

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