[HN Gopher] The father of all secrets: John le Carre's daddy issues ___________________________________________________________________ The father of all secrets: John le Carre's daddy issues Author : samclemens Score : 43 points Date : 2022-12-10 17:15 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (thebaffler.com) (TXT) w3m dump (thebaffler.com) | rainworld wrote: | Often unjustly forgotten among le Carre adaptations: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Perfect_Spy_(TV_series) | crabmusket wrote: | I'm currently watching this. The score is fantastic. | User23 wrote: | I really enjoyed the recent adaptation of the Night Manager | with Tom Hiddleston. | kramerger wrote: | As beautiful and powerful as that story was, it is still only | my second favourite le Carre adaptation :) | | I liked the new thinker tailor more. It had a old school feel | to it where they don't spoon-fed you the story and you have | to really pay attention to not miss important clues. | | They don't make many movies like that any more. | Slow_Hand wrote: | 100%. I love this adaptation so much for this reason. The | tone is so good. | | Having read the book, the big thing I feel they didn't | really convey as strongly was the sophistication of Karla's | "clever knot". I think that was glossed over a bit. | | Granted it's a pretty subtle thing to depict, even in a | film as subtle as this. | tptacek wrote: | The new Tinker Tailor is legit, but tragically miscast. | They had Toby Jones! They had Ciaren Hinds! Either would | have been a perfect Smiley. Oldman (at that time) would | have been a perfectly good Alleline! | | If you haven't watched the BBC Tinker Tailor, you're | missing out on the canonical Smiley, though. | | Burton's Leamas in Spy Who Came In From The Cold is | probably the GOAT though. | kramerger wrote: | I actually liked the casting, it was an unusual and | unexpected arrangement but everyone really shined. | | BBC version was okay, but felt really low budget. The | sound for example was pretty bad for a BBC production. | tptacek wrote: | Farty Slow Horses Oldman could have pulled off a good | Smiley, too. But 2011 Oldman? The same year he did | Deathly Hallows? Not a chance. Smiley _not_ being like | 2011-era Gary Oldman is one of his most important | character traits. Also: Toby Jones is fantastic and it | would have been great to see more of him. | | It was a good movie and true in all other respects to the | book. | svat wrote: | If you haven't seen it, here's Hugh Laurie telling a story of | attending John le Carre's 70th birthday party: | https://youtu.be/0es0XnqpXyM?t=1442 | sfuller808 wrote: | sandinmyjoints wrote: | Thanks, I was just looking for more le Carre adaptations today! | Finished Smiley's People yesterday. | tptacek wrote: | This is a random site but I concur with it: | | http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2021/all-9-john-le-carre- | movies... | tptacek wrote: | _In an interview on the BBC in 1965, Malcolm Muggeridge--himself | a former communist and British spy--told le Carre, in a | provocative tone, of a friend who survived a World War II prison | camp: "He told me the prison slang for a man who confessed was 'a | novelist.'"_ | | Oof! | cafard wrote: | Was Muggeridge in fact a former communist? He was an enthusiast | of the Russian Revolution early on, and his parents and in-laws | were socialists, but he was one of not many journalists who | told the truth about the famine in the USSR in the 1930s. He | worked for British intelligence during WW II, but hardly in | deep cover--his Italian opposite number in his overseas posting | (in Portuguese East Africa?) knew perfectly well who he was, | and was apparently tempted to run him over. | Veen wrote: | He was pro-communist until he went to live in the USSR in the | early 30s and saw what it was like. Thereafter, he was anti- | communist. | jakzurr wrote: | And definitely worth a skim, | | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_le_Carr%C3%A9 | Gatsky wrote: | Can highly recommend _A Perfect Spy_ , one of the best books I've | read, a bleak masterpiece. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-12-11 23:01 UTC)