@deanduncan63Saw #TinkerTailorSoldierSpy. A very important & distinguished book, which produced a very distinguished & important mini-series (1979) …
… is abridged & then adapted, anew, w’ great distinction.
#TinkerTailorSoldierSpy. Aprés Le Carré, this one’s both mind-blower & potentially, brain-melter. Actually brings to mind …
… Wm. Goldman’s script for All the President’s Men. Commercial audiences don’t usually have to work this hard! Thing is, …
… script & film admirably serve complexity & clarity both. We don’t usually work this hard, & what rewards for & pleasure in doing so!
#TinkerTailorSoldierSpy. Remember Red Harvest, or Yojimbo? Decent guy, trying to retain some degree of honour—& survive!— …
… in the very midst of a terrible two-sided corruption. Le Carré’s TTSS, Le Carré’s entire universe, multiplies the factions, ups the ante …
… & increases the difficulty, to the point of near hopelessness. That being the case, the fact of protagonist George Smiley, …
… (& of Oldman’s [& Guinness’s!] performance), comes across as very affecting indeed: …
… “We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair.”
#TinkerTailorSoldierSpy. Get a load of those assorted & various duds!
#TinkerTailorSoldierSpy. A particular triumph in its stillness unto stasis, which yet produces a sense of menace that’s practically kinetic.