The camera doesn’t make friends with her she stands confrontationally before us and refuses to back down, lifting up her chin, not inviting us to warm to her. Geneviève Bujold plays Dr Susan Wheeler, a prickly, driven character who works hard, and stands up for herself at the end of the long day when her boyfriend Mark (Michael Douglas) suggests she might fetch him a beer before starting to cook dinner. Things are not so straightforward in the likeability department by the time we come to Coma (1978), and that’s what’s really interesting about it. He drives the action so we root for him, and we want him to get the answers he’s looking for. Redford was one of the biggest movie stars of the 1970s because he played the everyman so well in this kind of thriller. Those two films in particular have the common link of Robert Redford, who plays the man trapped in the middle of terrifying events. Often the storylines tied in to big political events, such as Three Days Of The Condor (1975) which reflected revelations about the CIA, and All The President’s Men (1976) which dealt directly with Watergate. The 1970s was a great decade for the conspiracy thriller.
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