When he faced her, both of his eyes were missing, in vacant eye sockets.Behind her as she backed away and screamed, she looked upon Imhotep - who had two fresh eyeballs in his eyesockets.For Alex, it is a moment of pure ecstasy:Alex (voice-over):And it was like for a moment, O my brothers, some great bird had flown into the milkbar and I felt all the malenky little hairs on my plott standing endwise and the shivers crawling up like slow malenky lizards and then down again...Above all, remember you must be cavalier, dashing!" BackgroundThe Conversation(1974) is the slowly-gripping, bleak study of electronic surveillance and threat of new technologies that is examined through the private, internalized life of a lonely and detached expert 'bugger.The basis of the film came from the 1921Saturday Evening Posttwo-part short story "The Song of the Dragon" by John Taintor Foote.