Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

[Sharpe]

The new trailer looks good.  And while Gary Oldman is no Alec Guiness (original version), he's usually entertaining.

Now I need a Burberry coat and a makarov.  I miss the Cold War.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTrMc4bRcu0&feature=player_embedded

[tombogan03884]

The new trailer looks good.  And while Gary Oldman is no Alec Guiness (original version), he's usually entertaining.

Now I need a Burberry coat and a makarov. I miss the Cold War.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTrMc4bRcu0&feature=player_embedded

You and me both.    
LeCarre is a good writer. I think they made a movie from "The Spy who came in from the Cold", I know they made one from "Little Drummer Girl".
If you like LeCarre, check out Len Deighton.
He did a series of 10 books, each one is complete in itself but together they cover much of that era. It starts on New Years eve 1899 with "Winter" introduces the families of many of the characters in the later books and takes them through to the end of WWII.
The other books pick up around the 70's and follow Bernard Sampson , and the City of Berlin through the end of the Cold War.

[Sharpe]

I read the Sampson novels by Len Deighton and really enjoyed them.  They did a cool BBC version of those starring Ian Holm back in the '80s.  I will look into WINTER.

There should be a Berlin Wall inspired 3 gun match.  Walther ppk's, MAC-10's/Skorpion pistols and I'm not sure what else.  Sterling's?  AK-47's?

[tombogan03884]

Make it an IDPA match, Walthers, Makarovs, Tokarevs, and Webley's. 

[Pathfinder]

Sorry, looks like MTV-ready crap, sex scene and all.

TTSS happens to be one of my all-time favorite movies and LeCarre my favorite author after Shakespeare. Back when, I had the whole series taped from PBS, AND I bought a PAL-format VHS set from England and had it dubbed into NTSC by some Pakis down on Devon in Chicago, just so I could OWN a copy.

The original BBC series followed the book chapter by chapter, scene by scene. Alec Guinness, Ian Holm, Ian Bannen, even Jean Luc Picard Patrick Stewart, a whole list of top-notch English actors who disappeared in their roles.

Sad thing is, I will probably go see it just because I so love this book.

Smiley's People is the follow-on story, and there is a DVD of that as well. Good thing they never made Honourable Schoolboy into a movie - that book put me into a seriously nasty depressed, nasty FOUL nasty mood for 3 weeks.

Spy/Cold starred the inimitable Richard Burton, and they also made Tailor of Panama into a movie (feh! ptooey) with Pierce Brosnan and Jamie Lee Curtis (who once again stripped naked to show off her rack), as well as Russia House (meh) with Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer who IIRC did not strip naked.

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[Sharpe]

I'm cautiously optimistic.  Fitting the novel into a two hour movie will require a lot of trimming I'm sure. 

There just aren't that many grown up movies coming out of Hollywood these days so I tend to get my hopes up easily.

As for the sex scene, Rickie Tarr is catnip to the ladies.  He's like a sleazier Bond!

[tombogan03884]

I'm cautiously optimistic. Fitting the novel into a two hour movie will require a lot of trimming I'm sure. 

There just aren't that many grown up movies coming out of Hollywood these days so I tend to get my hopes up easily.

As for the sex scene, Rickie Tarr is catnip to the ladies.  He's like a sleazier Bond!

That's why I hate the Tom Clancy movies with Harrison Ford. In the books (which are great ) you follow his thinking, putting facts together and coming to conclusions, in the Movies he's just sitting there staring into space.

[Bic]

There is a, to my tiny mind, a fantastic series available from Netflix called "The Sandbaggers" which tells the story of a small SIS office in London in the early '80's I guess, not a lot of 'action' but interesting internal politics.

I rent them about a couple of times a year,

MP

[twyacht]