Alan J. Pakula’s 1974 film The Parallax View begins with a sleight of hand. The film follows Joe Frady (Warren Beatty) as he investigates a series of mysterious deaths surrounding the assassination of a presidential hopeful, who is murdered in Seattle during a Fourth of July campaign stop at the top of the Space Needle. After the candidate is shot, his security team pursues the killer to the top of the tower, where, after a tussle, he falls to his death. The bodyguards stop and peer over the edge, relieved that the assassin is dead but unable to hide their shock that the guy just fell 600 feet, his remains splattered on the concrete below.
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