#VIDEO DIARY ONE DIRECTION SUPERMAN MOVIE#
Most of the movie (I'm going to guess three quarters) is simply the cops trailing the bad guys, on foot or by car. Instead we see the details of a couple of cops out to break a huge dope ring. It would have been easy to push this farther and make it truly boring, but it doesn't go there. The plot and pace of things is more steady than exciting, usually, not cinema verite but a kind of camera work that is unglamorous with the idea that this really is the way it is, and it works great. There are lots of scenes in cars, including the famous car chase, and lots of good old street stuff in Manhattan, very 1970 (when it was shot). It isn't quite as gripping now, I think, but it still sucks you in.
This is the stuff of a breakthrough movie. This is a movie as down in the mouth as the world it represents, and it's all deliberate, and smart. It was the New Hollywood answer to film noir, and the lead male (Gene Hackman) is presented without glamour, the gritty city (New York) without dramatic shadows and light, and the plot (about modern drug dealing) without hyped up dramatics. But prior to that, this was the movie that defined his career. The French Connection (1971) Director William Friedkin would make it impossible to see his career straight two years after "The French Connection" by directing "The Exorcist," which took on a life of its own.
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