The French Connection: Difference between revisions

** Technically its an abandoned mental hospital.

* [[Baby Carriage]]: A runaway carriage hampers the car chase.

* [[Beard of Evil]]: Alain Charnier, AKA "Frog One".

* [[Car Chase]]: One of the most famous in movie history. While ''[[Bullitt]]'' was the [[Trope Maker]], this was the [[Trope Codifier]].

* [[New York Subway]]

* [[Nice Hat]]: Popeye's porkpie hat.

* [[Real Person Cameo]]: Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso (the real-life inspirations for Popeye Doyle and Cloudy Russo) appear in the film as Simonson and Klein, respectively.

* [[Rule of Cool]]: The real "Popeye" Doyle (or "Popeye" ''Egan'', rather--his name was changed for the film) thought at first that the famous image of Hackman shooting the criminal at the top of the steps was offensive since he would never actually shoot someone [[In the Back]], but he realized later on how the moment worked on film and forgave it.

* [[Stop or I Will Shoot]]: 'Popeye' guns down the EL assassin as he [[In the Back|turns to flee]], despite the fact that a) he's now unarmed, and b) Popeye couldn't have been sure the man was the same guy who'd taken a shot at him earlier, as there was little opportunity to get a clear look at his face.

* [[Spiritual Successor]]: 1973's ''The Seven-Ups'', starring Roy Scheider as another New York City cop leading a special organized crime task force. It had the same producer and composer of ''[[The French Connection]]'' and also had a high speed car chase.

* [[Throw It In]]: Tradition has it that the famous baby carriage moment was an accident during filming. In truth it was staged. However, earlier in the chase scene there's a moment where another car smashes into Hackman's at an intersection, and that ''was'' a genuine accident that was left in.

* [[Translation Convention]]: Averted, with a lot of (subtitled) French dialogue.

 

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