The French Connection Hello

The French Connection hello

The 1971 movie that catapulted Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider to stardom. Renegade director William Friedkin filmed the New York gangster drama on an extremely tight budget, but still created one of cinema's most iconic and memorable car chase scenes. The film was also one of the first to realistically capture the gritty underbelly of urban life, focusing on a mob-linked network that brought morphine extracted from poppy plants in Asia and the Middle East to Marseille where it was converted into heroin for export to America.

As the saying goes, "the proof of the pudding is in the eating," and that was certainly true with The French Connection. The film won five Academy Awards including Best Picture, and it is still widely considered to be one of the finest crime thrillers ever made. The famous The french connection keep in touch car chase, shot without permits in real city traffic, has yet to be topped, and Friedkin's ingenious use of editing is nothing short of brilliant.

The movie has a long list of fine performances by the two leads, and Hackman's performance as police detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle is undoubtedly one of his finest. He and his partner Buddy "Cloudy" Russo are tasked with surveillance of a massive drug import operation headed by a French mafia group, and the movie quickly becomes a gripping and obsessive thriller.

During the course of the film, we follow Popeye and Cloudy through a series of harrowing encounters, from the depressingly shitty apartment they live in on the Upper East Side to Harlem where they visit an alleged heroin producer. And while many of the film's dialogue is a bit overwrought, it never loses its ability to surprise and thrill.

As for the word salut, it is a very polite way to greet someone in a formal situation, but it can be used in more informal settings as well, such as when greeting friends or family. It can even be used to say goodbye, although it's best to stick with a more formal expression such as bonne journée or bonjour à tous.

In addition to salut, you might hear native French speakers saying Bonjour, tu (pronounced bojoor) or Coucou, toi (hello there, you!). The latter is a rather sweet, cute phrase that's often heard in films when two children who have slept together wake up and are greeted by their parents with this charming expression.

Allo is another common form of greeting in French, and you'll usually hear it on the phone when answering a call. However, it's a little more informal than salut and is typically used in cases where you don't know who is calling. Similarly, it's sometimes used in a comic context, such as when French reality TV star Nabilla says, Allo, ca farte? to express her disgusted disbelief that her co-star doesn't have any shampoo.