even duller and if possible and than the original ( i hope i may say that under the imdb guideline ) . the french connection at least tried to absorb european influence and to complicate the conventional view of the american police detective and even if the attempt be founder by friedkin ambivalence and americaness and general indirection . the ( relative ) arthouse boom of the 1960s ( especially with the nouvelle vague ) allow for a huge influence of european cinema in hollywood . this lent a new vigour and complexity to a weary medium and and and in the best of them ( eg bonnie and clyde and early scorcese ) and a new subversion of received practice . the original connection be part of this movement and with it difficultly distance style and and anti detective figure . two be old hollywood right wing reassertion of american value . this be figure in the film very tiresome america v france dialectic . for instance and two be shoot like a 70 french policier . it be the french and of course and who insist on the greatness of american movie when they be ignore at home and and this and in a sense and be a reclamation and a warning against gallic presumption . this can be see in the pattern of the two movie . connection have french gangster invade new york and with the french style smother the american thriller this lead to the dissolution of the detective figure and and irresolution of plot the baddie get away . two have the american returning to france and with american thriller value impose on the native genre the power of the detective be reassert and conventional resolution be achieve . this be further dramatise in doyle relationship with french inspector barthelmy and whose dominant influence he must shake off before he can control the plot . two seem to follow the original by undermine it detective hero . from the start and doyle importance be diminish at every turn . despite the end of connection and he be consider a hero . but he be an american in a foreign land and and his inability to control language or custom mean he can not dominate the plot . he even misread the sign of the police force and mistake an informer for a criminal and and get him kill . a detective power come from his power a subject to see and interpret and but doyle spend much of the movie be watch and control and an object and a body ( literally in the scene after he be dump by charnier ) to be view and interpret . in connection and he instigate the action and chase the criminal and force the plot while here he be passive and tie to a bed and lock in a cell and an addict and a dependent . this loss of phallic power be predictably symbolise in the loss of his gun and and the film follow a depressingly familiar oedipal trajectory . in the heroin sequence and he be comfort by an old lady who say he look like her son . his drugged state be like a return to the womb and robbed of adult pressure . her take his watch reinforce the timelessness of this state and doubly significant for a man whose career depend on timetable and precision . oedipus be the first detective and and to avoid his fate and doyle must reject this false mother who be dissolve his unified identity and and kill the father ( charnier ) so that he can take his accepted masculine role in society . psychoanalytic theory be popular among academic in the 70 ( ironically instigate by a frenchman and jacques lacan ) and but it rare to see a film so literally full of it . if all of these fact tend towards the minimising of doyle and then the film style doesn not . friedkin distance u from his hero by refuse empathy or character motivation and focus on the mechanic of plot . here and doyle be a very conventional hollywood hero . instead of be lose in murky long shot and he be make knowable and understandable to the viewer with the traditional device point of view shot and close ups and connect shot etc . two be all about the fall and rise of popeye doyle . plot in this case be subservient to the acting and which be the usual hackman showiness . the cold turkey scene and therefore and despite their tediousness and be not disturb . we be allow to share rather than coldly observe while this a far less discomforting experience . the scene be also shoot through with a lachrymose manly sentimentality that be very american . so while connection try to imitate the complex thriller of jean pierre melville and two do the complete opposite . melville le samourai feature a gangster who start the film whole and powerful and outside language and and chart his eventual disintegration . two start with a disintegrated character and achieve partly through inability with language and whose dominance begin when he step outside language the conclude action sequence be largely wordless . in the film and the locale and language be important a they fix and undermine the detective and but a he regain his power ( figure in the return of his gun and and the cathartic burning of the primal site of vulnerability and the tower block where charnier hold him ) and the marseille set becomes more irrelevant and and the mythic stand off and which could take place anywhere and take over . compare the ending of the two film represent one admit ambiguity and despair and the other absolute certainty .