We, The Infected

gattoparde 59: I think you'll really enjoy revisiting the book Tinker Tailor: I just finished doing so and it was most enjoyable and moving. I recommend, also, that you read Winter's Bone. It's good that you saw the movie first. If you read the book first, you might have done a double-take at a coup...

Well, Jetboy, I didn't like Oldman's take on Smiley because Smiley is delineated in great and impressive detail in the book, so that he comes alive and you can actually see him and hear his tone of voice as you read. Alec Guinness picked this up for the BBC series and was wonderful, and, for people ...

Thanks, wolfchild, for your response. I think the problem is that I found this forum googling 'TTSP forum. I wanted to discuss the book, and instead I found myself in a forum for fans of the movie director. I never expect a movie to be just like the book. There have to be changes as the movie shows ...

Jameron: Thanks for the welcome! You describe the story the film is telling as exactly the story fans of the book feel that the book is telling. If you got that out of the film, then it's not the failure I thought it was. I wish I could embed a quote from your post in this reply, but I forget how to...

Jameron: The book TTSS has a story to tell and tells it. The film, imho, and that of others, did not get any story told. Smiley was a strong and much-delineated character in the book story. Gary Oldman was not 'Smiley' although he was called that. I am always defending film handling of text that is ...

I disliked the film for two reasons, one of which has been cited by several of the forum members. The story is too complex to be told in a 2-hour movie. You end up with an illustration of the book, if you've read the book. As an illustration of the book, it fails because Gary Oldman is nothing at al...

When I wrote this post I had trouble reading it as I had my eyes dilated for eye exam. Reading it properly, I see it leaves a lot of what was in my head unsaid, as did the Tomas/Oldman version of TTSS. OK, Riki Tarr travels to Hong Kong on Circus assignment, with two return passports, one for himsel...

This is my third reading of the novel TTSS since it first came out. It has been many, many years since the second reading. I hated the Oldman movie. There was not enough time to tell such a complex story; Oldman is nothing like Smiley (Guinness was superb). I am enjoying my third reading more than t...