Cool Redford, Normal Dunaway, & Chilling Von Sydow in "Three Days of the Condor"

Finally, a good one…

[quote]Faye Dunaway is appealing in non-neurotic mode

A rarity

Watched it last night. I loved the scenes with Max Von Sydow.

No really its’s good-very suspenseful.

I'm sure it's good. Redford just never pulled me into the theatre. I only saw Way We Were because of Barbra.

I watched this on youtube. Fay looks frumpy imncomparison to the leading man. The film makes no sense but its a great time capsule.

The way Redford's character treats Dunaway's is reprehensible. He abducts her and holds her captive and has sex with her. Ruined the whole movie for me.

It's ridiculous r7. But is it "r@pe r@pe". Redford was in his prime.

Faye and Reford have no chemistry.

I saw this is the theater when it came out in 1975, and I remember liking it -- but not enough to see it again.

Damn -- I'm an old, old woman.

R7 I remember seeing this scene in a theater when I was in high school. Lost respect for the Redford character at that point. Really ruined the movie. Wonder whose idea that was?

The very end of this movie, always chilling, is particularly horrifying now.

The movie was so much better than the book.

and John Houseman as Mr. Wabash.

The opening scenes have rain. I wonder if they faked it or waited till the weather was really raining?

This was a big box office hit back in the day. It may not be the best movie but it's hard to imagine a movie like this being popular today. Too many brain cells needed.

If Redford and Dunaway were young today they'd have to bulk up and play superheroes.

Dunaway just trusting Redford for no rational reason makes no sense . It undermines the whole movie.

She probably concluded that if he was untrustworthy at least she'd die happy, R18. As would half of DL.

Von Sydow was extremely compelling in Citizen X. I forgot who he was when I saw that.

Call me perverse but did anyone else laugh when the woman at the front desk got shot?

That was Helen Stenborg.

I just rewatched this. I don't think I'd say that Dunaway's character was in "non-neurotic mode" at all! There is something definitely wrong with her -she seems to have a perverse need to be mistreated or controlled. She is quite willing to have Redford fuck her (as most of us would be), and thereafter behaves like a wild animal that's been tamed. At the end of the film she seems content to just go on to Vermont and her boyfriend as if nothing happened. All that seems neurotic to me!

Ah the symbolism of the rain now stopped when Redford heads back to the office.

I was waiting for Tina Chen to break out some kung-fu moves.

He got over his dead girlfriend pretty quickly.

I like how when Redford finds all the bodies in the office there is no music, only the sound of the printers.

Ooh a shot of the World Trade Center.