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Antwon 2022-03-22 09:02:59
Let everything make way for the Cold War!
The cold and sharp black-and-white images, the wide-angle long shots that often make the characters small, with British cold humor, and hidden political lines. All of these make the audience completely immersed in the environment of the Cold War.
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Sophia 2022-03-14 14:12:31
"Forced Pleasure" by a show master
Burton always shows his true temperament, in fact, this is a character set he made for himself, "Richard Burton, this is my title, my motto, my epitaph, my cross. I won I have gained a diabolical reputation that has absolutely nothing to do with my accomplishments as an actor, I am the infamous...
Walter Gotell
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Janie 2022-04-23 07:05:20
THE MAN WHO KNOWS ALL THE DIRT! ...SHEER AND NAKED!
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Alexa 2022-03-19 09:01:11
Great opening shot. The scheduling of several scenes is impressive. The superiority of capitalism is that it allows one to say: the Berlin Wall is the same filth on both sides. A little less words would be better.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold quotes
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Control: We have to live without sympathy, don't we? We can't do that forever. One can't stay out of doors all the time. One needs to come in from the cold.
Alec Leamas: I'm an operator, Control, just an operator.
Control: There's a vacancy in Banking Section which might suit you.
Alec Leamas: Sorry, I'm an operational man. I'll take my pension. I don't want a desk job.
Control: You don't know what's on the desk.
Alec Leamas: Paper!
Control: [after taking a long sip from his tea cup] I want you to stay, uh, out in the cold... a little longer.
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Ashe: [Approaching Leamas who is sitting on a bench] Do you like birds? The ones with the white collars are wild. The others are domesticated. With people it's the other way around.
Alec Leamas: [He snickers]
Ashe: Bird-watching's one of my hobbies. I often come here.
Alec Leamas: Do you also often come to Wormwood Scrubs Prison at eight o'clock in the morning to watch birds?
Ashe: Yes, jailbirds. They're my other hobby.
Alec Leamas: Only the young ones, surely!
