What Makes a Movie Life-Changing?
Readers on <em>Pump Up the Volume</em>, <em>The Conversation</em>, and more
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Last week I asked readers about films that changed their lives, or that they judge to be underrated (among other questions). Rob shared a bit of dialogue that has stuck with him for 50 years:
It was in Francis Ford Coppola’s , starring Gene Hackman. The two main characters see a homeless man sleeping on a city bench. One character expresses disgust. And the other replies
