"The Conversation" was a project Coppola was trying to get off the ground before "The Godfather" (there's a book on Hollywood in the '70s called "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" by Peter Biskind that gives the background) and I think it was very demonstrative of the alienation from institutions that Americans felt after Watergate - hence the small figures in large landscapes.
It's probably a trope that will resurface if the Bush adminstration ever collapses under its own hubris.
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"The Conversation" was a project Coppola was trying to get off the ground before "The Godfather" (there's a book on Hollywood in the '70s called "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" by Peter Biskind that gives the background) and I think it was very demonstrative of the alienation from institutions that Americans felt after Watergate - hence the small figures in large landscapes.
It's probably a trope that will resurface if the Bush adminstration ever collapses under its own hubris.