Six Surveillance Films To Make Trump Paranoid

Ryan Gilbey, Guardian Unlimited: Film
Tue, 03/07/2017 - 12:00am

From All the President’s Men to the Bourne series, wiretapping is widespread in Hollywood. No wonder Trump is twitchy …Trump’s wiretap paranoia and the reality of modern surveillanceBetween the first two Godfather films, Francis Ford Coppola knocked out this small-scale but wide-reaching thriller about a master surveillance expert, Harry Caul (Gene Hackman), who is memorably described as “the best bugger on the west coast” – a line that always gets an unintended laugh from British audiences.

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