Saw Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy last night, and wow, the writer and the director really did take the novel and made the story as slashy as possible while still nominally keeping it as subtext, and then hired British actors who communicate mostly by glowering at one another. The whole movie is filmed in Pleiadescope™.
Big stop just to renew your license to companion. Can I use companion as a verb?
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Tom Scola - Jan 03, 2012 3:06:43 am PST #17334 of 30000
hwæt
sumi - Jan 03, 2012 4:09:35 am PST #17335 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Hee.
Now I REALLY want to see it.
§ ita § - Jan 03, 2012 5:09:05 am PST #17336 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Avengers promo (at bottom). Apparently the art is fanmade, not official. The trailer I would love to see full-sized.
Consuela - Jan 03, 2012 6:37:59 am PST #17337 of 30000
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Heck, there's even Proud Noble Roman turns Primitive German Tribe into Mighty Fighting Force.
Ah, but they then took the Germans back to Rome, rather than converting to the worship of Odin (? who would the Germanic tribes at that time be worshipping?), and teaming up with them to fight off Rome, or some other invader.
Hmm, maybe the Roman colonists in Britain count: they end up as British as the local tribes, in the end. By which argument one could claim King Arthur is a honky...
Burrell - Jan 03, 2012 7:31:01 am PST #17338 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
The whole movie is filmed in Pleiadescope™.
ah ha ha ha ha! Now that's a selling point. I'd even go see a Kissinger bio if it were filmed in Pleiadescope.
§ ita § - Jan 03, 2012 7:38:36 am PST #17339 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm surprised I didn't find it very gay at all. Sure, many of the men were glowing with their brand of just-under-the-radar hawtness, but any subtext was lost on me.
megan walker - Jan 03, 2012 7:54:33 am PST #17340 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Well, part of that is certainly text, not just subtext (at least with one important character in the book). I'm almost done with the BBC mini-series and it really pales in comparison to the book, I can't imagine what the feature film ends up with.
Tom Scola - Jan 03, 2012 8:04:47 am PST #17341 of 30000
hwæt
I wasn't counting that, I was talking about the relationships between the characters in the story.
megan walker - Jan 03, 2012 8:09:34 am PST #17342 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I wasn't counting that, I was talking about the relationships between the characters in the story.
Ah. Although it is strongly hinted that there might have been something between Tailor and Jim and that's why the betrayal is so deep.
I assume the movie leaves out all the boarding school stuff. And Guillam's Camilla paranoia.
P.M. Marc - Jan 03, 2012 9:44:09 am PST #17343 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Guillam has some of the larger changes from the book.
Saw Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy last night, and wow, the writer and the director really did take the novel and made the story as slashy as possible while still nominally keeping it as subtext, and then hired British actors who communicate mostly by glowering at one another. The whole movie is filmed in Pleiadescope™.
Don't forget longing looks!
But, seriously, Mark Strong's performance continues to haunt me. He was amazing.