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The film is the first English film by Thomas Alfredson, the director of "Don't Go In".
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The film was shot in London, Budapest and Istanbul from October 7 to December 22, 2010.
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Michael Fassbender originally wanted to play a role in the film, but because of the conflict between the shooting schedule and "X-Men: Elementary", the role was later played by Tom Hardy.
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Peter Morgan wrote the first version of the script for the film, and he also plans to revise the script and write the final script. However, due to the sudden death of a family member, he gave up his work as a screenwriter.
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After 30 months of cast selection by the crew, Gary Oldman was finally selected as the cast of the film.
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In order to choose the right glasses frame, Gary Oldman specially selected hundreds of frames and finally chose a black frame.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Wilfred 2021-11-12 08:01:17
The music, setting, atmosphere and Gary Oldman's acting skills are almost impeccable. But before the end, I have been waiting for the moment when the latent text that I waited like before the conversation is over gradually accumulates and finally breaks out and blooms independently of the surface narrative. The result was no. Instead, it was superfluous in the last ten seconds. Regret.
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Adell 2021-11-12 08:01:17
The surface is gentle and elegant, but there are hidden mysteries, a lot of foreshadowing, and a lot of information, but the relationship between the key figures and the branch lines are not in-depth. In the deep music, the cold war spy drama performed by the actors is fascinating with the British flavor and the atmosphere of a specific era. The frequent scenes and time switching test the audience's concentration. ★★★★
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy quotes
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Percy Alleline: The Minister agrees with me that too many secrets are blowin' around here. Too much failure, too many scandals, too little solid intelligence.
Roy Bland: Percy does have a point, Control. We should be fighting communism, not each other.
Percy Alleline: Well, we're losing our reputation. Our partners.
Control: [scoffs] Your bloody Yanks!
Percy Alleline: And we've had enough! There's going to be changes.
Easterhase: We need to decide if we want to be part of the past or part of the future.
Control: I should have left you where I found you.
Easterhase: Look!
Roy Bland: Control-...
Control: Out! All of you!
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George Smiley: I met him once. Karla. In fifty-five. Moscow Centre was in pieces. Purge after purge. Half their agents were jumping ship and I traveled around signing them up. Hundreds of them. One of them was calling himself Gerstmann. He was on his way back to Russia, and we were pretty sure he was going to be executed. Plane had a twenty-four hour layover at Delhi, and that's how long I had to convince him to come over to us instead of going home to die. Little room. I'm sitting here... he's sitting there. The Americans had had him tortured. No fingernails. It's incredibly hot. I'm very tired and all I want to do is get this over with and get back home. Things weren't going well with Ann. I give him the usual pitch: come to the West and we can give you a comfortable life, after questioning. Or you can catch your plane and fly home and be shot. "Think of your wife. You have a wife, don't you? I brought you some cigarettes, by the way. Use my lighter. We could arrange for her to join you, we have a lot of stock to trade. If you go back, she'll be ostracized. Think of her. Think about how much she..." Kept harping on about the damn wife. Telling him more about me than... Should have walked out, of course, but for some reason it seemed important to save this one. So I go on. "We are not so very different, you and I. We've both spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. Don't you think it's time to recognize there is as little worth on your side as there is on mine?"... Never said a word. Not one word.