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All right, Popeyes here, your
hands on your hands, get off the

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bar and get on the wall.
What's my name? Popeye Doyle. If

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he doesn't like you, he'll take
you apart. And it's all perfectly legal

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because Doyle fights dirty. You want
to take a ride there? Fat man

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and plays rough. J Doyle is
bad news, but he's a good cop.

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We're going there on the barn.
How many times have I been down

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hard? He looked up and saw
him smiling like a shining dime. Yeah,

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and hope that he would stay and
tell me why he was so heavy?

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If he handed out? Who is
it? Jewish? Lucky? What

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about the last big time Springers?
Think? You know? Are you?

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He's spritting around what the Russians are
in Jersey? They said he sticker,

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don't give him a tail. My
friend's name is Boker Sounder too, a

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Boker Boca from downtown. They're pretty
sure you pull off a contract on a

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guy named de Marco and that's not
a drop. I'm not a charge for

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your bloomy nails. Oh Sea doesn't
mess. And then on our own,

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after working the whole day and night, we tell him the book and we

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sat only for particularly week now who
do we come up with? The French

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Connection? A millionaire export with a
record too clean to be true, and

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Doyle knows it, but he's been
known to make mistakes. You're a hunch.

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Is a backfired before it? Though? This time you can't afford to

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be wrong. Ust I knew the
deal hasn't gone down. I n I

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know it hasn't. I could,
I could feel I'm dead certain last time

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you're dead? Certain we have a
dead cop. I left him? Why

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what You're hide? The air?
The steak up, Frank seats, the

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payoff, chase stop talk you all
right? Why French Connection. Hollywood,

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and of course the films that have
been created there have went through many landmark

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metamorphosis. These are often defined by
era, style, or even political landscape.

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This week's film brought forth a new
style of filmmaking called the New Hollywood

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Way. That brought forth a major
change not just in how films were made,

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but in how actors and actresses performed
in them, how writers wrote them

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in how us the viewers not just
see them but remember them in the lasting

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impressions they make on us. Directed
by the recently passed on William Friedkin,

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based on the nineteen sixty nine book
of the same name. Nineteen seventy one's

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French Connection introduces us to New York
narcotics detectives Jimmy Popeye Doyle and Buddy Cloudy

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Russo played by Gene Hackman and Roy
Scheider, respectively. These men, early

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in the film find themselves in a
heroin investigation that could become the biggest drug

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bust in American history. In our
first clip, we are going to hear

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how this film really change the image
of police officers in cinema. Gone were

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the happy, go lucky men hunting
criminals joyfully? Doyle and Russell harken back

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to the hard boiled detectives of the
forties. This first scene is an example

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of this, is they try to
shake down a low rent drug dealer.

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This scene is quite interesting because we
hear the start of a possible good cop

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bad cop game between the two that
quickly goes to the wayside. And then

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in our second clip, the duo
crash a local bar and you again hear

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the tough intensity of Doyle. But
in this scene one cannot help but notice

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allusions to future hard nosed detectives in
cinema. Yeah, come on, break

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please come on, ain't say nothing
to this. Break your ass. Come

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on, come on, get out. I don't stub me. Will you

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stum men? Lit h? Come
on, Jill, Jimmy, come on,

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let me man, I'll mest I
want to bust you. I want

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to bust you. Post we talked, he talked to it. You got

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a friend here Monday? You got
a friend. You gotta tell us too,

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your man? He's what's the last
time you picked to pete? Willie?

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Who's your connection? Welly, what's
his name? Hey? John?

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No? No? Mans no,
hey no, Jodph Barber, Jodiph Barber.

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Right, that's who it isn't it. I don't come sady. What's

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Joe's last name? I don't know, man, I know there's a one

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twenty fifty man about the barber show? What's time to set? Want to

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talking about? Man? I don't. And you know what's said of the

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street he lives on? Hey,
what's the last on you pick your feet?

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What's he talking about? I've got
a man of po Keepsi wants to

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talk to you. Have you ever
been a Pokeepsi? H? Have you

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ever been Pokeepsi? Hey? Man, come on, gim me a prag

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here, let's talk him about.
Hey, you say, come on,

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have you ever been pokeepsi? You've
been a pokeepsi? I'm I want to

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hear it. Come on, yes, have you been there? All right?

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Yeah? You sat on the edge
of the bed, didn't you?

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You talk off your shoes, put
your finger between your toes and pick your

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feet, didn't you. That's say, all right, you want to see

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on my partner. You know what
that means, Scott dude, all went

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wrong. I gotta stim grip about
his bowling scores. Now I'm gonna fust

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your ass for those three bags,
and I'm gonna nail you for picking your

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feet for keepsie. Next the bar, shake down, all right? Pop

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eyes here, get your hands on
your heads, get off the bar and

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get on the wall. Come on, move move it's not sweetheart. Move

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Come on, gait around all right? Come on, heakes the window.

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Fall turn around here, turn AROUNDO
come on, loop, hands out of

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your pocket, turn around, turn
around on your heart, come on,

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turn around, come on, turn
around, Get on the wall, get

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on an get turn around. Hey, you dropped that, look it up,

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hands off, pick it up?
Come on, move what are you

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looking at? All right? Bring
it here? Get your hands out of

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your pockets. What's my name?
Doyle? What mister Doyle? Come here?

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You pick your feet? Do you
get over? Get your hands on

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your head. We told you people
are coming back. We're gonna keep coming

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back here until you clean his barrow. Keep your eye on your neighbor.

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He dropped something that belongs to you. Hospel here, turn around, we

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got here. I just belong to
you. I'm stand up there, naughty.

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Keep your hands on your head.
Get in there if you want to

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take a ride there fat ma'am.
H they attention. We're gonna ask questions

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later. Un around ash all right, shut up, damn shut up?

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Anybody want a milk check? All
right? Come over here, you and

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you, hey whiskers, come on? Who lass? When I call you,

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get in you. What made this
film such a discovery upon its release

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is that, despite being a somewhat
fictional film, it views like a documentary.

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This was intentionally done by the masterful
work of Friedkin. He Is stated

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he wanted the viewer to feel as
if not even the camera knew what was

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going to happen next. The car
chase scenes the foot pursuits in this film

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are evidence of this. The best
auditory example of this is our next clip.

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When the heroine finally enters the United
States from France, it is tested

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for purity. A scene such as
this had not been conveyed on America cinema

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with such realism. So much so
both law enforcement and those that were in

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evolved with drug dealing have complimented on
its realism in both talking about the purity

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of the drug and the business side
of it. Last off one two hundred

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Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval to ten
US Government certified two twenty lunar trajectory Junk

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of the Month club sirloin steak two
thirty create a poison, absolute dynamite,

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eighty nine percent pure junk, best
I've ever seen. If the rest is

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like this, you'll be dealing on
this load for two years. So he

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taught me. It's oneth a half
million. How many kilos sixty sixty kilos,

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eight big ones at quilo right,
This stuff will take a seven to

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one hit on the street, and
by the time against down the nickel bags

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will be at least thirty two million. Thank you, Howard, Take what

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stuff there with you and good night. Ah, not that one, the

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little one. I guess we gotta
deal, Well, we gotta here sells

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a test a deal for half a
million dollars? Maybe, baby, Come

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on, Joel, I don't know. Guy's an hour once the break,

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wants to go back to France.
This guy's not gonna hang around and play

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games. Ok. He's one of
the shrewdest cat I ever come across one

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of wires. Schmuck, what's the
hurry? You could see a couple of

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shows. Visit the top of the
Empire State Building. Don't jerk me,

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wine stock. I spend a lot
of time setting this one up. So

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what do you want to badge?
This is your first major league game?

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Sell one thing I gonna learn.
Move calmly, move cautiously. You'll never

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be sorry. Look, I've been
damned careful up to now. This is

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why your phone lines are tapped in
the fensive call on all over you like

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Fleelans. Look, I'm telling you
he'll take the deal somewhere else. So

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let him take the sixty kilos of
heroin someplace else and find out how easy

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it is to put together. I
have to make get in cash. He

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wouldn't find there's any hurry to know
this kind of business. The stuff is

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here. We can make the switch
in an hour. Look why Stock,

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I'm telling you he'll split up.
We don't move. This guy's got him

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like that. He's everything they say
he is. What about you? So?

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Are you everything they say you are? In my opinion, the realism

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conveyed in this film is what sets
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The intense and brilliant performances by Hackman
and Scheider just put this film on another

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level. Couple that with the masterful
direction of Freakin who you used his experience

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in filming documentaries to truly make this
film unique upon its release, and it

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is allowed its influence to be felt
to this day. This film is a

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favorite of so many directors, including
Spike lee In, David Fincher. The

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late legendary director Akirakirasawa called it his
favorite film. Brad Pitt stated he took

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his acclaimed role in the film seven
because of this movie. Upon its release,

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it garnered mass critical acclaim. It
was nominated for eight Academy Awards,

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winning five. This includes Best Picture, Best Director. This is one of

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the few films to accomplish that feat
and Best Actor for Hackman. Scheider was

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nominated for Best Boarding Actor, but
did not win the accolades. The acclaim

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the influence along with breakthroughs previously stated, truly make this a legendary treasure in

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the history of cinema and also is
Die cast ironclad proof of the directorial genius

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that was William Friedkin. I hope
you join me next week when with college

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football season starting, we will look
at a film often called a football movie,

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but is it really will dissect that
when we look at the nineteen seventy

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four classic The Longest Yard for WMNH
and Matt Connerton unleached. This has been

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a classic film review with Piltre don't
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