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In Reply to: I have seen the most extraordinary TV series.... posted by patrickU on January 13, 2005 at 12:32:20:
and for the show. "The Circus" for example, not a real term.
There are SO MANY great moments, where you wonder, "What is going on???" And slowly they fill in the void. The dogs and the Germans in the beginning. What is going on here???
How about when George Smiley tells the other guy "Watch my back. It will be just one man". So he knows who it is!!! And we don't!!!! Passable imitation, "Game, Set, Match". Another spy 6 part TV movie.
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" The Circus " because the office was near a " circus " like Picadilly Circus " and I presume that Mr. Le Carre as taken some words out of the real jargon used by the Service...
Dogs and Russians *, forget me the precision, he-he....
* That was for Victor.....
His role as Bernard Samson in Game, Set, Match was where I first took notice of him. I enjoyed this series even more that the Len Deighton books because of Holm's characterization of Samson. I sure wish that the BBC would release this on DVD.
Seemed to drop off the radar after being run once. Utterly fascinating to watch. Reilly Ace of Spies also quite good, based on the real guy.
Smiley was the agent who tried to talk Burton over the wall in the denoument. Rupert Cusack played Smiley in the movie. He had a long way to go at that time.le Carre wrote great stuff. For fiction. As he said about himself
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The answer is that nothing that I write is authentic. It is the stuff of dreams, not reality. Yet I am treated by the media as though I wrote espionage handbooks. I am regarded as a sage on every spy case from the double-agent Judas to your wretched Mr. Aldrich Ames.And to a point I am flattered that my fabulations are taken so seriously. Yet I also despise myself in the fake role of guru, since it bears no relation to who I am or what I do. Artists, in my experience, have very little center. They fake. They are not the real thing. They are spies. I am no exception.
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