William Friedkin's gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. An interesting contrast is established between 'Popeye' Doyle, a short-tempered alcoholic bigot who is nevertheless a hard-working and dedicated police officer, and his nemesis Alain Charnier, a suave and urbane gentleman who is nevertheless a criminal and one of the largest drug suppliers of pure heroin to North America. During the surveillance and eventual bust, Friedkin provides one of the most gripping and memorable car chase sequences ever filmed. A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection. If you only look at The French Connection as an ordinary cops-n-robbers drama from the early 1970s, it's okay with some startling violence and one really good chase scene. When you consider that it won a Best Picture Oscar, you're forced to wonder what the Academy voters were smoking that year and whether you can get any of it for yourself.<br/><br/>Here's the rather skimpy plot of the movie. Loud mouthed, bullying narcotics detective "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) drags his coat rack of a partner "Cloudy" Russo (Roy Scheider) to a night club. They spot a table full of criminals with one guy they don't recognize. "Popeye" and "Cloudy" start following that guy, which leads to them following other guys, which leads to even more following of various sorts until all the crooks and all the cops end up at the same huge heroin deal. And that's pretty much it. Throw in a lively performance by Hackman as the sort of flawed anti-hero that still seemed fresh and new in the early 70s, an outstanding car vs. subway chase and an ending that strives for social commentary and you've got a film that's still a decent piece of entertainment all these decades later. But is this something worthy of an Academy Award for Best Picture? Not unless every other movie out that year was made by Ed Wood.<br/><br/>Since The French Connection first hit theaters the year I was born, it's almost impossible for me to appreciate what affect it had on people back then. Whatever it was that the audience and the critics responded to, however, it hasn't aged all that well. The plot is almost painfully simple. The only characters that get to do more than mouth expository dialog are "Popeye" Doyle and French drug dealer Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey). The movie is filled with long, slow sequences where somebody is following somebody else. These aren't chase scenes. I mean one guy walking and another guy walking behind him or one guy driving and another guy driving behind him. These multiple following scenes go on forever, have no dialog and nothing happens except ordinary movement. Even the mystery involving the hidden heroin shipment and the big drug deal is more explained to the viewer than solved.<br/><br/>Which isn't to say The French Connection is a bad or unentertaining movie. It's focus on the unglamorous and tedious legwork of investigation is unusual enough to keep your attention at first blush, though I think I'd be bored out of my mind if I watched the film again. Hackman is engaging as a cop who thinks his badge gives him license to do whatever he wants out on the street. And that car vs. subway chase is very impressive by modern standards, which means it had to have been astonishing in its own era.<br/><br/>If you're looking for a classic crime drama, I don't think I can recommend this film. It's too much a candidate for "Long Attention Span Theater" and most folks under the age of 40 won't be able to discern what made The French Connection so noteworthy in its day. But if all you want is some decent cops-and-robbers storytelling or you're doing a scholarly thesis on cinema of the 1970s, this movie will fit the bill. "The French Connection" is a gritty, harsh film that looks at the underworld of drug dealing and efforts of the law to bring down the big narcotics dealers. This is an intense film that tries to show the real world of the drug scene in New York City. The R rating is serious, and many adults may find this film unsettling. <br/><br/>It is a good film as a study of the subject, based on a book about two real New York police detectives in the 1960s. But it clearly is not entertainment. The screenplay has been fictionalized. The performances across the board are excellent. This film won five Oscars, including four of the five top honors. It won best picture for 1972, and William Freiedkin won as best director. Gene Hackman walked away with the best actor Oscar and Ernest Tidyman scored for the best writing of a screenplay based on another source. Only the best actress of the top five awards was missing – and that because there wasn't a major female role in the film. <br/><br/>"The French Connection" also was the first R-rated movie, since the MPAA ratings began in November 1968, to win a best picture Oscar. As of this writing (January 2017), every best picture Oscar winner—except one, since 2004 has been an R-rated film. "The French Connection" also ushered in an era of new crime films. They deal more with the gritty, seedy and often crude operations involving the underworld and law and order. Some quick ones on the heels of this film were "The Godfather" in 1972, "Serpico" in 1973," The French Connection II" in 1975, and on through "Scarface" of 1983 and to the present day.<br/><br/>These are far from family films, and many adults may not like them. I don't know that one would consider this film entertainment, but it is interesting. I watch such films occasionally because they show a side of a real world that most people don't otherwise see or know. They are disturbing, and that should be a good sign for viewers who don't want such a culture to flourish. Producer and screenwriter have added enough fictional flesh to provide director William Friedkin and his overall topnotch cast with plenty of material, and they make the most of it. The word "frog" is often used as a derogatory term for someone of French descent. When Popeye refers to Charnier as "Frog One," he's trying to distinguish Charnier from his partner, Pierre Nicoli. It can also be a way to show Popeye's generally bigoted attitude. He's deliberately trying to confuse Willy into making a confession. Poughkeepsie is a small city about 80 miles north of New York on the Hudson River. Willy may have a drug connection up there that buys product from him and sells it in that region. His line, which is somewhere along the lines of "when was the last time you picked your feet in Poughkeepsie" is basically nonsense. Repeating it and variations of it including only Poughkeepsie or just when the person has last "picked their feet", over and over in a threatening manner, is a tactic meant to bewilder the subject. While the criminal is desperately trying to figure out what this sentence is a code for, the interrogators intersperse the badgering with actual questions like "who's your connection Willie, what's his name!?" and "is it Joe the barber?" The totally confused criminal up against the wall, doesn't know what this Poughkeepsie thing is, but it sounds bad and he sure didn't do it. So to take the questioning away from this mysterious act the police think he's performed, that must be pretty terrible, Willie admits to what they really want to know out of fear. This tactic/phrase was actually developed by the character that Gene Hackman played, in real life (the movie is loosely based on a true story). Source: French Connection Commentary extra found in the DVD version of the movie. They more than likely bought Devereaux a new car exactly like the old one. Putting the car back together after spending several hours tearing it apart would have taken at least twice as long, plus there was the actual damage they caused to the interior while ripping out upholstery, carpeting & other trim. From there it'd be a simple matter of buying a new Lincoln, pulling out the rocker panels in that one & stashing the heroin & transferring the license plates to it. a5c7b9f00b The Brothers Grimsby song free downloadDownload Episode 1.140 full movie in hindi dubbed in Mp4Wink Girl Returns download torrentFists of Righteous Harmony movie in tamil dubbed downloadBoogie with the Man full movie in hindi free downloadBionic Woman in hindi download free in torrentG.I. 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