I don't get it.
>>219720937Forget it, anon. It's Chinatown.
>>219720937the French Connection was the friends we made along the way
>>219720937It was a connection was for heroin.
>>219720937He was an asshole.
>>219720937The US used to be much more openly violent and this movie would have felt good to watch pretending that a no-nonsense cop was doing something about it. Now, you shoot an unarmed man in the back like that and we make fun of you because you weren’t fit enough to just catch up and cuff him. Someone post the subway scene though. Best part of the movie.
>>219720937dude was a hack, couldn't act
Popeye is insanely callous, a shrewd bully who enjoys terrorizing black junkies, and the film includes raids on bars that are gratuitous to the story line just to show what a subhuman son of a bitch he is. The information is planted early that his methods have already cost the life of a police officer, and at the end this plant has its pat payoff when he accidentally shoots an F.B.I. agent, and the movie makes the point that he doesn’t show the slightest remorse. The movie presents him as the most ruthlessly lawless of characters and yet—here is where the basic amorality comes through—shows that this is the kind of man it takes to get the job done. It’s the vicious bastard who gets the results. When Popeye walks into a bar and harasses blacks, part of the audience can say, "That’s a real pig," and another part of the audience can say, "That’s the only way to deal with those people. Waltz around with them and you get nowhere."I imagine that the people who put this movie together just naturally think in this commercially convenient double way. This right-wing, left-wing, take-your-choice cynicism is total commercial opportunism passing itself off as an Existential view. Popeye's low character is used to make the cops-and-robbers melodrama superficially modern by making it meaningless; his brutality serves to demonstrate that the cops are no better than the crooks. In personal style and behavior, he is, in fact, deliberately shown as worse than the crooks, yet since he's the cop with the hunches that pay off, the only cop who gets results, the movie can be seen as a way of justifying police brutality.
Should have ended with the gunshot, the "where are they now" epilogue is goofy as hell
I liked the levels in driver 1 and 2 that are an homage to the french connection. Stupidly difficult games.
>>219722664>It’s the vicious bastard who gets the results.He doesn't get the results, though. Frenchie escapes, the local kingpin doesn't get convicted either. The director Friedkin is very much a liberal anti-establishment kind of guy who picked up Postmodern French New Wave approaches toward storytelling to present this film. Popeye is a deconstruction of a hardass cop, where as you note he's an ultra-asshole. But not even total devotion toward justice can achieve what he's looking for, and all that does is keep him in a cycle of harm.
The weirdest part is where he stalks underage women on bicycles and forces them into having sex with him by threatening them with some sort of legal punishment.In the commentary, Friedkin says the real cop that he's based on used to do this constantly.
i watched this s few days ago and its pretty good and holds up wellthe second one was a bit strange with like 1/3 of the movie being about popeye being forced to take heroine
>>219725250Part 2 is saved by the ending.
