He comes to respect Turner after his various escape attempts. Ronald Malcolm becomes Joe Turner, and Wendy Ross is Kathy Hale. Adaptation Name Change: Most of the characters have their names changed from the novel.The second half alters or telescopes a lot of the book's plot points, especially the fates of two major characters (see Spared by the Adaptation below).
THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR MOVIE
Adaptation Distillation: The first half of the movie is an almost beat-for-beat adaptation of the book.Abnormal Ammo: In the opening scene, Turner proposes an ice bullet as the murder weapon in the novel that his colleagues are analyzing.Three Days of the Condor contains examples of: In the process, things keep getting messier and Turner begins to worry that his own employer the CIA is trying to murder him.
Terrified, Turner calls in the deaths to his CIA handlers, who prompt him for his codename 'Condor' and order him to follow procedures for pick-up and debriefing. While he's gone, a hit squad led by Joubert (von Sydow) enters the office and kills Turner's co-workers (including love interest Janice).
One day during the holiday season, Turner steps out of the office to grab some lunch at a nearby deli. Mild-mannered researcher Joe Turner (Redford) works for the Central Intelligence Agency in a small building in New York City, reading book after book to review their plots to see if they either contain elements that may be similar to ongoing covert operations or else be useful ideas for the CIA to employ. Three Days of the Condor is a 1975 political thriller film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, and Max von Sydow.
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