Gene Hackman's character was to have been named Harry Call, but a typing error led to his being named Harry Caul, and the name stuck because Coppola liked how the meaning of the word caul (a birth defect causing a membrane to surround the head) related to the character.
Passerby:
Well, I want to go over to my place and start, you know, getting it on...
Ann:
Oh, that's terrible.
Mark:
Yeah. Do you ever, uh... ballet?
Ann:
Be thankful. Do you have a quarter for them?
Mark:
Yes, I do.
Ann:
What about me?
Mark:
You'll see.
Ann:
A lot of fun you are. You're supposed to ...
At the party in Caul's workshop, Stan describes the targets of a job only as "two people". At that time, Caul was at the far side of the shop, leafing through photos of them, many yards away - and obscured by fellow attendees and equipment - from a woman in the group who later asks, "What did they do...the boy and the girl?" Even had she been able to see the photos, there was no way she could have connected them with the subjects, no way she could have known their gender nor age. (She may however, knew about the job and merely slipped her tongue.)
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