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It’s impossible to see Jim’s actions as driven by ideology or duty. We know, as Jim kills the man we assume was once his lover, that he experiences Bill’s betrayal not to Queen and country, but as a betrayal of the heart. - Joanna Di Mattia, Senses of Cinema
COLIN FIRTH and MARK STRONG as BILL HAYDON and JIM PRIDEAUX in TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (2011) dir. Tomas Alfredson
Source: sensesofcinema.com
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Rewatched Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, there’s so much I missed the first time
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“He came to warn you, Smiley thought; because he loved you… Jim was watching your back right till the end.”
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John le Carré
(Song - Poison - Cavetown)
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‘In our supposed ideological rectitude, we sacrificed our compassion to the great god of indifference. We protected the strong against the weak, and we preferred the art of the public lie. We made enemies of decent reformers and friends of the most disgusting potentates. And we scarcely paused to ask ourselves how much longer we could defend our society by these means and remain a society worth defending.’ A glance to me again. ‘So it wasn’t much wonder, was it, Ned, if we opened our gates to every conman and charlatan in the anti-Communist racket? We got the villains we deserved. Ned knows. Ask Ned.’
The Secret Pilgrim (John le Carré)
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Stunning pencil on paper illustrations for the Folio Society edition of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (x)
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smiley in shades of blue, in the midst of a cold, cold war.
ref pic of alec guinness, although i haven’t watched the show yet :(
New Followers and The State of Things
Hello everyone,
Since we picked up a few new followers overnight, I figured I’d address a couple of things.
First of all, you’re all very welcome here. The blog’s been around...almost a decade now, though for the past 2-3 years it’s kind of hovered in a semi-hibernation state due to a mixture of the ebb and flow of content, tumblr’s tags being almost useless, and my schedule being a complete mess. Despite this, it’s not quite dead, and while I don’t trawl the tags for content as much as I used to, we’re still very much welcoming things!
So if you’ve made some content, or seen something and it’s not here, feel free to drop a link into the submission box, or if you have a weird question that you can’t find an answer to, feel free to drop a line through the ask box, and I’ll queue up the submission/answer the question as soon as I’m able.
In the meanwhile, feel free to use any resources found on here and I’ll update things when I can (I’ve not really added anything from A Legacy of Spies yet because I haven’t gotten around to that, but I will eventually add that information to the various resources/tags/etc).
Best,
M
Anonymous asked:
do we know if Bill was faking it when he got called into the office the night Jim was shot? I've always found his reaction quite wrenching in all versions of the story, but it occurred to me that Le Carre might want us to think that he had inside info about the incident coming in & was pretending to be all surprised and torn up about his best buddy possibly being shot dead for appearances' sake
First of all, I want to apologise for only just now replying. I was in the middle of exams when I received your message, and then have had a lot of health-related nonsense distracting me, so it’s taken a while for me to get to this.
There’s a long answer and a short answer to this one.
The short answer is no. We don’t really know, and there’s no 100% right or wrong answer here, at least not entirely.
As for the long answer, which is more akin to “What is my interpretation?”….
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“ On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, A partridge in a pear tree.“
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) Tomas Alfredson
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was someone going to show me this incredible morse coded tinker tailor soldier spy poster or were you just waiting for me to find out on my own?
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But Jim Prideaux, as Control well knows, is about as soft as flint.
It was so nice to see Jim again in Legacy of Spies! so here’s a sketch of him chain-smoking in the Windfall meeting.
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Benedict Cumberbatch as Peter Guillam from ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’.
Digitally colored pencil sketch.
I admire people who can paint with watercolor.
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- In your day the Circus ran itself by regions… each region was commanded by its own Juju man, Control sat in heaven and pulled the strings. Remember?
- It strikes a distant chord.
- Today, everything operational is under one hand. Called London Station.
- Who’s station commander?
- Bill Haydon. His number two is Roy Bland. Toby Esterhase runs between them like a poodle.
Source: idlesuperstar