This Looks ACE :D

[jjpor]

I know, trailers are supposed to look ace, but still...look at the cast they've got there, look at the production values and period stylings. And it's directed by Tomas Alfredson, who did the fantastic vampire flick Let the Right One In too. Myself, I'm a big John le Carre fan, especially the Smiley books - I have no idea how they'll fit the labyrinthine plotting and counter-plotting and flashbacks and flashbacks-within-flashbacks from the novel into a two-hour film, so it'll probably be a loose adaptation, I would think. Looks like they're taking a very different tack from the seven-hour 1979 television series starring Alec Guinness, which is also fantastic by the way (recently got it on DVD - I'd only ever seen it before when it was repeated on telly one Xmas about ten years ago, so it was like seeing it properly for the first time - it's classy stuff. Don't  make 'em like that any more). That seems like the only sane approach to be honest. But yep - I might have to go and see this one. I'm sure the queue in front of me will be mainly made of Sherlock fans wanting to see Benny whatshisface getting dangerous, Cold War style... ;D

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[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Well, I kind of am. It depends on what kind of political thriller, really. Without wanting to sound sort of chauvinistic, I think the British ones tend to be a bit more cynical and less overwrought, which appeals to me. But yes, I'll make a note of that - it'll be yet another recent-ish telly drama I managed to miss and mean to catch up with if I ever get the chance. :)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Oh, it is British - but set mostly in America - Isaacs is the British Ambassador in Washington. Sharon Gless plays a really hard-assed US - I want to say Minister but of course, they're not called that, and my just-awake-brain is failing to find the right word, but yeah - she's in charge of defence.

It's a very complex and multi-layered drama - well worth spending time watching, I think.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Do they call it Secretary of Defense? (With an "s" ;D) It sounds good, anyway - I'll have to endeavour to check it out at some point.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

That's the one - thanks!