What was the enitial reaction to "French Connection"?
952679
The French Connection(1971) is director William Friedkin's brilliant, fast-paced, brutally-realistic police/crime film - his commercial break-through film. The true-to-life film about the largest narcotics seizure of all time in 1962 - with an innovative semi-documentary-style technique that conveys the story with very few words, was produced by Phillip D'Antoni who had made the exciting police film Bullitt (1968).
631189
Cuz you just made that up to get a reaction. Ha ha. Was it what you expected?
265401
I saw it on Friday. It was a bit strange and far fetched in places but generally I thought it was really interesting and profound. My boyfriend didn't like it though. He thought it was a load of crap!
653757
Yeah i saw it! But i don't know what you're looking for exactly, a review?!! summary?!! or what? So i'm just gonnna tell you what i thought of it .. \nIt was a nice experience because its not like every other romantic comedy we usually see, the story is weird in a way which is what made the movie interesting, a bit funny, and gives a different perspective on love and marriage ...
687316
Overall, the situational irony is staggering. The arrival in france, the likeness between Sydney Carton and the French Guy (I also read it quite a while ago).
338785
How did the last person who answered this  . . . get arythmia???!!!  Ha, . . .ha ha ha .?! Huh, .. What? ;) \n\nI'm not chastising .  BUT HEY!  AMERICA!  LET'S GET FOREIGN LANGUAGE BACK IN OUR SCHOOL CURRICULA . .  OKAY?  DAMN. \n\nThat's scarey.  Couldn't that person tell it was a foreign language?\n\nSo yeah deliciously  it is Stop! you person (polite only?) or persons!  COMMAND FORM or IMPERATIF (imperative)  AAhh THE FRENCH LANGUAGE  like a outer galactic feast.\n\nThe images that come to my mind when I speak French.  It's heaven on earth.  \n\nI see fields of subtitles, cute French professors, bewildered language deficient but cute male fellow students that only see me as even more attractive because I now haold even more allure because of my ability with language, I see Language learning labs, A+ papers, gleaming transcripts, european field/abroad trips (woouldn't call it study trips because it was more just a 'trip', and I say to \nmyself . . . this is heaven on earth . . .Let me just say that my Wernicke's area IS the pleasure center of my brain!\n\nThank You GOD.
461462
I didn't care for it, I didn't think it was creepy at all.\nThe "shocking" scene were not so shocking and the movie lost me after the main character passed out.\n\nThe movie left too much unexplained.\n\nSorry.
687985
saw it thursaday 5/18 in korea.\n\nit was a good film, a fiction film, no more no less.
140187
Already answered on Yahoo before here: http://ask.yahoo.com/20000713.html\n\nAnd if I remember correctly love was a corruption of "l'oeuf" or egg (as in goose-egg).
992385
Absolutely loved the film.  Only Munich BARELY edged it out for bets film of last year (but only barely).  It's one of the few open and honest films about the subject of oil and the Middle East.  I was also stunned at the storyline involving the recruitment of the young terrorist.\n\nAmazing stuff.
1086233
Super funny. My wife didnt get it (but she didnt get Napoleon Dynamite either). \nMy belly was aching laughing - it was fun to watch in a full theatre as everyone in the crowd was roaring with laughter
749209
I like the toast.  Lol.  I've only met one French person, and she was really nice.  She was an exchange student in my high school.  She was friendly, and outgoing, she even played on the volleyball team.  I try not to form opinions about people I don't know. :P
1053901
In 1971, Rory Emerald did indeed have a small role in the Oscar winning film, “The French Connection”.  There were several famous car chases in the movie, and the French set designer Claude Caron needed to have a French citizen walking across a busy street and have him struck down by a speeding vehicle, driven by Gene Hackman.  The screenplay called for Gene Hackman to mutter “ces’t la vie” (that’s life) with a bemused expression to his French counterpart as he struck down a French civilian.  It was to be a moment of comic relief in the otherwise tension-filled movie.  It was an important moment of the movie, so much so that Caron scoured the world looking for just the right victim.  In the screenplay, there were several times throughout the movie when Gene Hackman’s French liaison would say “ces’t la vie”, much to Hackman’s disgust.  The concept behind the vehicular homicide was to display Hackman’s character’s wry sense of humor.  The victim would be decapitated by Hackman’s reckless driving, then as the beret flew into his car, along with the head, Hackman would deliver the hysterical line.  \n\nCaron finally found the perfect victim for the “accident”.  Dashing young film star and sometimes “crash test dummy”, Rory Emerald.  Mr. Emerald was to walk across a busy street, wearing a mime costume, complete with beret, while carrying a canvas he was painting.  At first, the role was to be quick, but Mr. Emerald was found to be such a great film star, that Caron allowed him to mime for a few seconds, then walk across the street for his fatal meeting with the police cruiser.  It was a moment of pure magic, and for most people that have seen the French Connection, the wonderful delivery of the line “ces’t la vie”, in Gene Hackman’s gruff voice,  as the mime’s head fell on his lap is the most memorable scene in the movie.  Mr. Emerald became very famous for that role, and there was even talk of a best supporting actor nomination, but that was removed after some scandalous rumors about him were spread.
541458
So glad you enjoyed it!\nI'm with you, I thought it was brilliant but I loved the other 2 movies as well. Big fan of x-men generally.\n\nAbby\nxxx
652107
Before I answer, let me say that my brother-in-law is fire chief in Shanksville so responded to the crash.  As a result, I have seen all the immediate after photos so this movie was important for me to see.\n\nYes, I felt the movie was based on fact.  It is well done and not at all exploitative.  I think all Americans should see it.  Those people really were heroes and I would like to think, in the same situation, that I would choose to go down fighting and not just let it happen.\n\nNot a sound was heard in the theatre during the entire film.  I have never been in such a silent theatre.  I also don't think there was a dry eye in the place.  The movie is very emotional and makes you feel like you are right there with them.\n\nOne warning, the movie will be difficult for those that get migraines from extreme motion.  The film is very jittery...like the Blair Witch Project.
810358
Had a look on the commentry of the film and they just say, 'some people ask, who is he talking about?'  on the part where the little man (tollouse) crys, but do not explain why. Maybe it's just artistic, as it makes you think there is bad things to come in the film, as we have just seen a very colourful energetic development of love, to a loney small man dressed as a clown, but is not colourful at all underneath dispite apperances especially when in company. There is a scene later on in the film where Christian has been thrown out of the Moulin Rouge, and as Christian is helped into bed, tolousse explains that 'things aren't always as they seem' and although others see him as a drunken gnome deep down he believes in art art and love.  \nIn answer to your question I  think it shows him crying because things aren't always as they seem.\nHope this helps!
966829
My husband and I cried together and held each other really tight after watching this film.  \n\nhe 'man-cried' though.