The adaptation is complete and failed, but it can still be seen

Dong Leshan's translation of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" is also a famous translation. At first, I was fascinated by it. When I looked at other Le Carre's, I found that it was nothing else. The difficulty of group play is the same in novels and movies. There are not many works that can find this balance. Novels take advantage of space (300,000 words for a spy), but movies are more difficult. If there is a concentrated scene like "Gosford Manor", it would be fine, but Smiley's investigation is also scattered, and there is no obvious step-by-step atmosphere. As a result, both "present" and "past" have become point-to-point, and the difficulty of imaging is further increased.

As a result, all expectations for the film turned into disappointment. Including the performances of several big hands, it also failed to pull up much tension. Deductions for preconceived impressions cannot be ruled out - when I read the original, I always felt that Haydn should be the face of James Woods. It's not that Colin Firth is bad at acting, it's that he doesn't act much at all. And his pairing with Mark Strong is not very convincing in itself - the original book is a college classmate, but this casting is obviously two generations. The most unsuccessful one is the so-called "adultery exposed": the confrontation between Haydn and Smiley is completely indifferent. It would be better for Peter Gillum to be arraigned by Percy, and when he turned his head, the three "wizards" sat in a row like the judges of the Inquisition, and the authentic cold humor was swept away.

The ambiguous "same-sex topic" in this story probably comes from the relationship between Le Carre and Kim Philby. That man was more complex than Haydn, who had gone from the good Cambridge cricket ground to inexplicably thrown into a "free country" that equated homosexuality with a criminal offense. And Le Carre, who had worked with him, at least remembered the vicissitudes of "people separated from the belly". This leads him to this excellent novel. But he never got a chance to ask Philby. Therefore, the conversation between Smiley and Haydn at the end of the original book is ambiguous. He shouldn't have caught a man who had escaped reality at all. The movie's restoration of this scene is also expected to be bad. In addition, Jim's assassination was made clear to the world, which completely destroyed the aura that should be "held". It is neither cold nor simple, and thus has no strength.

So, what are you looking at? Even the old lady's gun, John Hurt, left the scene early, so there is only the old English way of "doing it". For example, after Lloyd made a generous statement, the response was Lacan's movement of smearing cream on succulent with a knife. That's it, it's pretty cool.

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