What is that grey coat Harry wears all the time. It looks like thin, soft plastic, like a very very cheap rain coat..
shareHe looks like a copy of Columbo.Wearing a cheap suit. And always the raincoat. Only Harry's look like a disposable plastic one.
shareFrancis Coppola and gene Hackman wanted to show Caul's disinterest in fashion or in his appearance.
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noun
1.
the amniotic membrane enclosing a fetus.
I think the raincoat is an interesting representation of just that. Harry's "membrane" is self-imposed, total, complete protection of his person. The raincoat symbolizes that dangerously brittle but "functional" covering.
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Very insightful. I had meant to look that work up after the movie and forgot.
How about Stet: also pertinent
let it stand (used imperatively as a direction on a printer's proof, manuscript, or the like, to retain material previously cancelled, usually accompanied by a row of dots under or beside the material).
verb (used with object), stet·ted, stet·ting.
to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
Mr. Stet presumably edits the tapes/or tries. Also Connect the dots comes to mind.
That struck me as a character inconsistency, so to speak: if not only his job, but his core value lay in being anonymous, he sure made himself quite recognizable with those glasses, that mustache and that coat.
shareI watched this again last night. Was better the 2nd time. I thought the same thing. Then there was the guy spying with the earpiece....didn't even have it tucked behind his ear....wire sticking out like "Hey I'm a spy"
shareDespite those niggles its still “something wonderful” in the paranoid conspiracy subgenre. Always felt it was a kind of prequel of Enemy of the State...
shareI remember a review from Ebert (?) about that the proof Harry had no woman who cares in his life, was his wardrobe, and uses the plastic raincoat as an example.