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

Saw the Beeb adaptation on DVD about five years ago and love it like most however just hated how it wasn't one-a-week re-screen.

Missed it last night as I was at a gig (and was considering cutting off the 2nd half to watch this), loved the EP with Smiley and Jim walking around fields and standing in hotel rooms as Jim recounts his ordeal in Czecho. Really it might be a long time before we see anybody put any faith in the audience being asked to sit watching two guys walking around a field for 10 mins, never mind 45.

Also love the end credits music so much. Do stay until that is finished with.

I think I watched the DVD over two nights but its savagery not to have as a one EP a week thing on TV, even if it is so much hogwash I was all pissed off at this halfway house scheduling. How much better it would've been to see the last EP on xmas eve? You know I'm right.

absolutely right. i think it's a plot to make me fork out for the DVD

I could praps save you the trouble wink wink

thanks dude but i'll hang on for now too much Xmas nonsense to think about this week

I got my DVD out from the library for a v tiny fee *flicks V-sign at those capitalist BBC fuckers*

Only realised the other day that Arthur Hopcraft not only adapted TTSS, but also wrote The Football Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyxDVCb3ky4

o_O

fuck everything

so Caine turns out to be the villain because he can't bear to let oiks join his gang

but come come the relief when I realised firth wasn't playing smiley

i am going to be charitable and acknowledge that i am not the target audience for this film

altho wdn't it be funny to acquire the rights to one of Le Carre's books and do that to it?

I honestly thought at first that it was a reboot of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

hopefully mark strong and colin firth will have a healthier relationship in this flick than in ttss

They had the healthiest relationship in TTSS! and, in the end, the most honest one.

would be great if the kid turned out to be a total jackass

or bill haydon

exactly.

i dont get why people are so negative these days i get you want good entertainment but wait till the reviews and the movie ACTUALLY come out smh.... people are just tooo negative its the trailer not every trailers does the movie justice it could be a lot better than expected truth be told the only thing to me that could bring the movie down would an over done cheesy romance that came out the blue im not a fan of those anymore they drag the story down but other than that give it a chance. i know its all opinion and subjective but it seems it could be good.

^^^ pvmic

I watched this on an airplane

Then I read the wiki plot summary when I landed

Which was probably the best way to go tbh

now the bbc series

It's good? Yeah?

incredible

every winter I break out the DVD set of the bbc series and just work through it. so great.

Probably my most rewatched series DVD.

Is the BBC series of a Perfect Spy any good?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZgTRl3lj78

if you find that this type of thing is the type of thing you like etc

if anyone is looking for an "american version" of TTSS, david quammen's "the soul of viktor tronko" is a fictionalized version of the yuri nosenko defection and very good and readable in a le carre kind of way

also i re-read the looking glass war and i take back it being boring. i mean its boring in the way le carre is boring, and its very overdramatic at the end, too much oh the humanity as people complain about upthread, but it gets the dilapidated upper middle class bureaucrats stuff really well

watched movie again, thread was too harsh on it imo

liked it a lot; but haven't read book or seen series so most of thread discussion on it = ?, shrug

seven part BBC series.

go on, now. I'll wait.

ok. hold on, shdn't take me long

uh that was three minutes ago you were told

watched the movie again too. have seen it half a dozen times now i think. if i have nits to pick it's only because it is less good than the novel or TV series - it's fine as a movie tho. weirdly the pace of it feels a lot faster now than when i saw it in the cinema, lot of abrupt scene jumps

yeah agreed on rewatch.

...brb...

getting ready for my annual rescreen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCm3IrscqH8

Tom Hardy wishes he was Hywel Bennett every day of his life

watched the bbc series of this for the first time y'day mainly due to the praise given to it by dmac and NV. my word it was a terrific way to spend a saturday. halfway through smiley's people today. good work guys.

It's awesome to me that there are still people experiencing this 36 year old tv miniseries for the first time. Glad you enjoyed it!

Rah but iirc it was this thread and NV pointed me the way of the BBC version also

It is so brilliant, one of the most perfectly conceived tv series in history. But no way does Ricki Tarr turn into early 90's Shelley :(

mini series is so classic and i think also the least sexualized piece of art ever produced

Watched episode six today, opens with Smiley meeting Jerry Westerby (Joss Ackland) - who had voiced suspicions a year earlier - at the bar. Smiley brings them back up. Anyway, there's something almost unbearably great about these meetings in TTSP - people feeling out each other, or rather people feeling out Smiley, playing at jolly old fellows, stuck up sceptics - soon enough opening up and giving him what he wants, or at least some honest truth. There's talk, nervous ticks and smiles - and at the end you're nearly almost left with the feeling you watched the performance of some thoroughly lonely, hollowed thing, grasping for any companionship. And you chuckle and you tear up. And Ackland does so much here in just the first few minutes.

Yeah Auckland really males an impression in his few scenes

anyone watching the night manager?

something with both Tom Hiddleston + Hugh Laurie in it? I'd end putting my head through the television.

o nice gon check it out