Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (novel, miniseries, and forthcoming film to be directed by Tomas Alfredson)

reading Mailer's Harlot's Ghost at the moment makes me wonder what an adaptation would be like.

i don't think it wd be a good idea

btw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mer_(song)

started listening to the commentary last night (alfredsson and oldman), it's a bit sparse but lots of great stuff.

btw i think the wooden gizmo is a wedge for improving the stability of Prideaux' caravan, quite possibly as per the book.

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wd've liked it a bit denser and darker tbh

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Jeez, give him a break, he worked hard on it

This film was magnificent.

yes it is perfection

http://i.imgur.com/gskk2.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idUjpNL53RE

that = pure cinema.

this film was poop

http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/Smiley-1-300.jpg http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/Smiley-2.jpg

God the ending of this movie is so fucking good

OTM

u mad

great movie

mark strong kills me in that clip every time.

DG i believe it is "u" who is the one who is "mad" in this instance

and ya the way m-strong kind of adjusts himself after noticing colin firth looking at him is about as good as it gets

i dance like esterhase in that clip

move like esterhase

nah s1ocki this film was crap

hmm, guess i overlooked that inconvenient lil fact

yes

if i've read the karla trilogy and spy who came in from the cold can i basically read whatever le carre i want next?

Just finished reading Smiley's People a couple days ago and I really hope that movie actually happens. Funny to read through all the long slow conversations and imagine how they would have to be cut down to 45 seconds of screen time.

the miniseries isn't as good as TTSS but still vg

did it use everyday people as its theme song

no

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCQ0vDAbF7s

what if it did tho

max tell me what to read next

you could read a perfect spy, i guess. but youve finished all the best ones i think.

i read tinker tailor so that i would have read it before i saw this movie and now i feel like i need to read everything. that book rules.

yeah reading around i get the impression there's not a lot to choose between the rest of his stuff, and that's not because it's all 5*

has anyone complained that gary oldman is too skinny to be george smiley? oldman was good, but i felt a little let down.

I couldn't finish the novel but I'll try again soon. My library copy, which smelled awful, looked like it'd been in a dog's mouth.

everything else ive read is "eminently readable" and sometimes p good but none of it is as engaging or smart as TTSS or TSWCIFTC. perfect spy has its moments but is really long and most of it is not really about spying just about a thinly veiled version of JLC's dad

le carre does mention smiley's belly and chins a lot

ok i guess i will buy the next one i see in a shop that is not one of those early detective stories

I own The Tailor of Panama. Should I read it?

tailor of panama is decent

i feel like i've confused constant gardener and blood diamonds

I tried Tailor of Panama a couple of months ago and didn't get far. My attention kept wandering; might have been my problem and not the book.

Slightly off-topic, but if you exhaust the Le Carre spy goodness, Peter Wright's "Spycatcher" is a good real-life fix

i have so much trouble with le carre's writing and i'm not sure what it is, i've started TTSS and perfect spy at different times and i just can't get through them. i have to read some of his sentences three/four times before i can figure out what he's saying. everyone loves him so it's got to be a personal block.

for a guy who has a rep as a "beach read" kind of writer, le carre is sort of boring. i think in a good way!

yeah I read John Banville's The Untouchable in one gulp and loved it and the guy's a mandarin compared to Le Carre.

i will read all the george smiley books.

My library copy, which smelled awful, looked like it'd been in a dog's mouth.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

this is deliberate imo