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That violent nullity James Bond having long outlived his creator, it has fallen to an interesting gang of alpha novelists and superhacks to keep him busy: since the death of Ian Fleming in 1964, more than 20 new Bond books have been written. The latest of them, Jeffery Deaver’s Carte Blanche, was published this year, and as recently as 2008, Bond nuts were solemnly delighted—or I was, anyway—by Sebastian Faulks’s even-better-than-the-real-thing novel, Devil May Care, which featured a partially lobotomized lead goon and a villain with a main de singe,or “monkey hand” (hairy wrist, non-opposable thumb).

Perhaps the most rewarding of the pseudo-Flemings, however, has been Kingsley Amis, whose Colonel Sun appeared in 1968 under the nom de plume Robert Markham. Amis’s Bond, while retaining the familiar psychopath’s obsession with menus, tailoring, and branded goods—“Bond almost felt relaxed, finding the charcoal-grilled lamb cutlets with bitter local spinach very acceptable”—is also a suspiciously Kingsley-esque conservative, deploring newly built houses and the rise of a “vast undifferentiated culture, one complex of super-highways, hot-dog stands and neon … stretching from Los Angeles to Jerusalem.” Amis would maintain a fierce moral allegiance to 007. Decades later, upon learning that John le Carré had described Bond as an “ideal defector” and “the ultimate prostitute,” he vented in a letter to Philip Larkin: le Carré’s comment was a “piece of bubbling dogshit,” he wrote, adding that he preferred Bond to the “dull fuckers” of le Carré’s own fiction.

George Smiley, le Carré’s enduring gift to the literature of espionage, is, of course, the anti-Bond. Across the sequence of novels in which he appears, peripherally or centrally, this secret servant of Her Majesty (like Bond, he works for British Intelligence, known in le Carré world as “the Circus”) is discreet to the point of self-erasure. Bureaucratically dowdy, rarely spotted in the field, a dull fucker by both instinct and training, Smiley drops no one-liners, romances no tarot-card readers, roars no speedboats through the Bayou. Bond has his ultraviolence and his irresistibility, his famous “comma of black hair”; Smiley has his glasses, his habit of cleaning them with the fat end of his tie, and not much else. There is a cultivated blandness to him, a deliberate vagueness of outline that at times recalls G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown—the little priest’s alertness to sin replaced, in Smiley’s case, by an extraordinary memory and a profound knowledge of “tradecraft.” Smiley is also a cuckold of near-mythic proportions: his wife, the glamorous and rarely-at-home Lady Ann, seems to sleep with everybody but him. (She has doubtless slept at least once with James Bond: he’s just her type.) When John le Carré dies, there will be no pseudo–le Carrés, rotating the clichés of Smileydom through their potboilers. Not only is le Carré more or less inimitable—less imitable, certainly, than Ian Fleming, whose style was essentially that of a school bully with a typewriter—but Smiley himself is too elusive a creature to be captured by any pen other than that of his creator.

News late last year of a movie adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy—the greatest of the Smiley novels—caused me to salivate mentally. Gary Oldman as Smiley? John Hurt as Control, the withered, irascible Circus chief? Colin Firth playing someone, anyone at all? The juices of anticipation squirted in my brain. In the autumn of 1979, every Briton with access to a television set was watching, with avidity and occasional bewilderment, the BBC’s gloomy, labyrinthine Tinker, Tailor miniseries—not least because, as le Carré modestly reminds us in his introduction to the latest edition of Smiley’s People, “the only independent channel in those days obligingly staged a strike and for six precious weeks the entire British viewing public had to choose between BBC1 and BBC2.” There were other reasons, too, for the general enthrallment. Anthony Blunt, a much-garlanded art historian and the Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, had just been exposed as a former Soviet spy, part of the Philby/Burgess/Maclean ring. Thus did current affairs conspire to lend a more-than-usual piquancy to le Carré’s vision of an Establishment honeycombed with treachery. In Tinker, Tailor, George Smiley is prodded out of retirement to unmask the mole who sits at the Circus’s top table: Is it busybody Percy Alleline? Roy Bland, “the shop-soiled white hope”? Dashing Bill Haydon? Or the Hungarian, Toby Esterhase? Alec Guinness, playing Smiley (25 years removed from playing Father Brown in The Detective), blinked myopically and carried inscrutable wounds. Around him at the Circus were men both loud and furtive in their natures, swaggering and self-concealing, as if simply to be born into the British ruling class was to sign up for a lifelong career as a double agent.

There had been other screen Smileys—Rupert Davies gave him a bluff inhumanity in The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, and James Mason drawled James Masonically and rather ineffectually through Sidney Lumet’s The Deadly Affair—but Guinness’s became at a stroke the definitive performance. Guinness-as-Smiley was monkish, fastidious, almost prim, bestowing here and there the faint, equivocal benediction of his Smiley smile. He had a doughiness of feature and a plumminess of tone. He moved as if he were wearing three overcoats. In restaurants he looked inexpressibly pained, but if you mentioned his wife his face would register nothing at all. Guinness’s only rival to date for the role has been Simon Russell Beale—the voice of a hooded, magnetic Smiley in a recent series of BBC radio plays.

The new model of Tinker, Tailor—opening in the U.S. in December—is, for me, problematic. Director Tomas Alfredson, previously known for the well-regarded vampire flick Let the Right One In, has reduced the already low pulse of the BBC version to a throb of nearly reptilian thrill-lessness. Which would be fine, except that much of the distinctive le Carré atmosphere has also floated away. Circus HQ, for example, in the novels a warren of pokey corridors with London traffic-grunt coming in through the windows, is rendered by Alfredson as a kind of totalitarian Reading Room, a soaring industrial/cerebral space in which ranks of eavesdroppers and codebreakers clack at their machines, and meetings are conducted in soundproofed cubes. It’s a chillier spy world, with wider gaps between people. The center of gravity provided in the novel by the Establishment, the clubbable Old Boys in their smotheringly furnished rooms—burgundy carpets, burgundy faces, overstuffed men in overstuffed chairs—has gone. Gone too is the heavy fellowship and ghastly heartiness, the endless belaboring of Smiley with the long syllable of his first name: Oh really, George!, George, you must see …, How’s the lovely Ann, George? Now they all communicate in leers of mutual suspicion: a Scandinavian reboot has occurred. Was the Cold War really this cold?

Oldman-as-Smiley, meanwhile, is blanker, harsher-voiced, impenetrable behind the huge reflective panels of his glasses. The wan little smile has become a grimace. Twice we accompany him in the laborious meditation of his early-morning swim in the Thames, watch him pushing pale-shouldered through the tea-colored water—to what end? We cannot possibly guess what he’s thinking. No clue! Smiley’s understatement has been overstated.

It’s very 2011, I suppose, to rub away the interpersonal texture and crank up the anomie. Didn’t the Bond franchise give it a go in 2006’s Casino Royale? Daniel Craig as a harder, icier Bond, hacking his ethically unencumbered way across a borderless post-9/11 globe … To strip down or minimalize le Carré, however, is to sacrifice the almost Tolkienesque grain and depth of his created world: the decades-long backstory, the lingo, the arcana, the liturgical repetitions of names and functions. Did you know that it was John le Carré who introduced the word mole (for “double agent”) into English? Also honey trap? He has enriched the language itself—a claim not even the most devoted Bondian, not Kingsley Amis himself, could make for Ian Fleming.

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playchoicesconfessions · 2 years

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Sent by anonymous

'We finally got rid of two of the "un"holy trinity of stalking and creepiness (Ethan Ramsey and Ian/Ina Kingsley) one more to go (Sam Dalton).'

POSTS/CONFESSIONS DO NOT REFLECT MOD'S PERSONAL OPINIONS!

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beckettharringtons · 4 years

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yknow what? i hope we get the option to call out ian for harrassing us if we havent flirted with him. bc half of the shit he does is completely unwanted. and i dont even want to get into the fact that we cant even have a normal conversation with the man without him throwing himself at us.

#playchoices #queen b #anti ian kingsley

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choices-binglebonkus · 2 years

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MC: *flirts with Zoey, kisses Zoey, sleeps with Zoey, constantly makes an effort to romantically approach Zoey*

Zoey: Aww! You’re such a sweet friend, bestie! Best gal pals 4EVER!

MC: *turns Kingsley down when they proposition her, never flirts with them, denies any romantic relationship with them at the hearing, stresses a purely professional relationship to anyone who thinks otherwise*

Kingsley: So. I heard your Apoidea challenge went well. Wanna do naughty phone sex shit?

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nazariolahela · 4 years

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So, even though I have rejected every single one of Ian’s advances, the story still thinks he and I are carrying on an inappropriate relationship? What even is this?

#queen b #playchoices #i’m so tired #ian kingsley #anti professor kingsley #professor kingsley leave me alone challenge

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masked-alien-lesbian · 3 years

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Professor Kingsley hate...you've been warned!

I wish we could at least go one chapter without that horny professor in it humping our leg...

#Forget about who hates or who's banging Poppy #The professor is more annoying then X #The prof is the one that's eating Zoey's screentime #But since the prof has the capacity to be male #No one's gonna hate on them #Anti-prof #Anti-professor #Anti-professor kingsley #Anti-Ina #Anti-Ian #QB #QB2

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storm-holt · 4 years

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Pb stop centering the narrative around professor kingsley challenge. :0

#ik itll be hard for them #god #im tired of them #stop erasing zoey ugh #choices #play choices #playchoices #qb #qb choices #choices qb #queen b #zoey wade #professor kingsley #anti professor kingsley #ina kingsley #ian kingsley

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theguardianofmagic · 4 years

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I’m not sure which one I’m more upset over. Queen B’s professor being so forced or everything MTFL is doing to Ava.

#choices queen b #choices qb #choices mtfl #mtfl ava #queen b professor #ina kingsley #ian kingsley #anti professor kingsley

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true-halloween-tales · 7 years

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2017: #4-SPIES

There’s a man who leads a life of danger To everyone he meets he stays a stranger With every move he makes another chance he takes Odds are he won’t live to see tomorrow Secret agent man, secret agent man They’ve given you a number and taken away your name. - “Secret Agent Man” by Johnny Rivers.

James Bond is not an uncommon Halloween costume; so many different Bond outfits could be used, but white tuxedos are sure to win the day. There are other distinctive spies that one could create costumes for Halloween. Patrick McGoohan was one of the first actors to regularly portray a spy, John Drake, in the British series, Danger Man, from 1960-62. In the half-hour episodes, John Drake worked on various cases as a United Nations agent. The series returned from 1964-67 as Secret Agent in one-hour episodes. In Secret Agent, John Drake now worked for the British secret service. The storylines were sophisticated and realistic. McGoohan performed his own stunts, and there were excellent supporting actors. Johnny River’s song, “Secret Agent Man” was created for this series. In 1967, McGoohan went on to co-create The Prisoner, a science-fiction/spy, cult tv mini-series. McGoohan wore a distinctive outfit in The Prisoner, perfect for a Halloween costume, including a black blazer with white piping. The Prisoner sure seems like the continuing Orwellian nightmarish misadventures of John Drake, even though McGoohan’s character is only referred to as Number Six in the seventeen episodes. Who has kidnapped him? Where is he? Who is Number One? And what are those growling, large, white bubble monsters (see 2011: #2-STRANGE TV MONSTERS)? The Prisoner is one of the most artistic and intelligent television series ever made, and has social commentary ranging from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest to 1984. In fact, The Prisoner is one of the top ten best tv series ever. The Prisoner has a definite ending which is so strange that it makes a werewolf yodeling Swedish songs in a hot tub filled with gravy to be rather normal. In the 1960’s-70’s, McGoohan was offered the role of James Bond three times, but he turned it down because he felt that Bond was an immoral character. Actors who portray spies often feel that they are villains.

In 1962, Dr. No, the first James Bond film, was released starring Sean Connery. When he tired of the role, George Lazenby became the second James Bond for one film. Meanwhile, a popular British spy tv series had started since Danger Man had begun: The Saint. The Saint ran from 1962-69, black and white and then into color, and featured the thief, but honorable cultured man, Simon Templar, as played by a young Roger Moore. Roger Moore then graduated to become the third James Bond. He extended his tongue-in-cheek persona of Simon Templar into his characterization of James Bond. The Saint was resurrected in 1978 with The Return of the Saint British tv series and starred Ian Ogilvy. Timothy Dalton then replaced Roger Moore in the 1980’s as the fourth James Bond. The 1982-87 American tv series, Remington Steele, became popular which was about a Simon Templar-like character, starring Pierce Brosnan. After waiting for his Remington Steele contractual issues to end, Pierce Brosnan became the fifth official James Bond. But there have also been unofficial James Bonds. The 1967 film, Casino Royale, was not included in the James Bond film series. Instead, it was curiously created as a comedy with multiple actors portraying James Bond including David Niven and Peter Sellers. For villains, Casino Royale starred Orson Wells as Le Chiffre and Woody Allen as Dr. Noah. Back in the proper James Bond series, in 2006 Daniel Craig became the sixth James Bond. He portrays Bond the most accurately as compared to the character in the books.

The James Bond original novels were written by Ian Fleming who also strangely released, Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang. He wrote fourteen James Bond books from 1953-66 which provided full characterizations of Bond. They are worth reading if you like spy novels. The Bond in the books is a bit different than the Bond in films. The novels characterize Bond as more of a gourmet and less of a lusty womanizer, who tries to live life to the fullest because he expects to die any day. The central characteristic of Bond and any superior spy is thinking outside of the box – and probably blowing up the box! In 1968, Kingsley Amis continued the Bond series with Colonel Sun. Then the Bond book series died, until 1981-96 in which John Gardner continued the series with sixteen more novels. Some of his Bond novels were exceptionally awful. The series was then continued by Raymond Benson with nine novels from 1996-2002. Since then there have been four new novels written in the series, each by a different author, such as Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks. There is also a Young Bond series that started twelve years ago written by two authors and containing eleven books.

James Bond is a major acting role just like Batman or Sherlock Holmes. There are some noteworthy actors who turned down the role over the years besides Patrick McGoohan. Richard Burton and Cary Grant both turned down the role. Adam West and Clint Eastwood refused the role because they felt the actor should be British. There are many actors who auditioned and were not selected for the role: Michael Cain, Paul McGann, Mel Gibson, Sam Neill, and Jeremy Brett (see 2012: #12-THE ADVENTURES OF SHEERLUCK HOMIE). It would be fascinating if a future James Bond film brought back the surviving Bond actors including Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan as villains. When considering Bond-related Halloween costumes, take into account distinctive Bond villains such as the bald Goldfinger or the three-nippled Scaramanga. But there are spies beyond Bond!

Perhaps the most stylish, elegant, and entertaining spy tv series is The Avengers starring Patrick Macnee as John Steed and Dianna Rigg as Emma Peel. Steed was a spy who wore custom-made, light blue or gray, Pierre Cardin suits, wore a distinctive armored bowler hat, and carried secret-gadget umbrellas, all suitably swell for Halloween costumes. The first season featured Dr. David Keel who meets the spy, John Steed. The second season included Steed mostly working with Cathy Gale played by Honor Blackman who appeared in Goldfinger. The third and fourth seasons were the best and introduced Steed to Dianna Rigg as the wonderful Mrs. Emma Peel. Mrs. Peel’s colorful catsuits and full leather bodysuits qualify for being cool Halloween costumes. The fifth and sixth seasons had Steed working with his spy boss, Mother, played by Patrick Newel as he was assisted by the spy-in-training, Tara King, played by Linda Thorson. The Avengers ran for six seasons between 1961-69 with one hundred and sixty-one episodes. Some episodes crossed over into science-fiction/horror with possible ghosts, time travel, Frankenstein monsters, and UFOs. Guest stars included Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee (see 2018: #1-GREAT HORROR FILM ACTORS). In 1976-77, two seasons of The New Avengers ran with Patrick Macnee reprising his role as an older Steed as he directed the spies Gambit and Purdey, who was portrayed by Absolutely Fabulous’ Joanna Lumley (aka Patsy). The Avengers was adapted into a 1998 film that was panned by critics but included Ralph Fiennes, Sean Connery, and an appearance by Patrick Macnee as an invisible man. I met Patrick Macnee in 1992, and I asked him to impart his wisdom and he told me, “Do whatever you have to do to get through the day.”

There are many other popular spy tv series. The Man From Uncle was popular; so was I, Spy. Mission Impossible was a tv series and has also been a film series. The Wild, Wild West was a decent spy series with a lot of perilous dwarf villains. In the 1970’s, Edward Woodward was the lead in the dark, gritty British spy series, Callan, who sometimes performed assassinations. In the 1980’s, Woodward swam to the U.S. to star in The Equalizer for four seasons. His Robert McCall was quite similar to a retired Callan. 24 was a very popular, anti-terrorist, action-oriented series. Most recently, Person of Interest was a science-fiction/spy series similar to The Prisoner in some ways. Get Smart was the first spy/comedy tv series, and Archer is now a popular, spy/comedy, animated series. There are many spy films, and many of those are based on previous tv series and are never as good as the original.

There is one fresh and new, spy video game character that offers a distinctive Halloween costume: Sam Fisher. Sam Fisher is the central character in the Splinter Cell game series. There are Splinter Cell books and a film is planned potentially starring Mad Max’s Tom Hardy. Sam Fisher is more athletic than James Bond, and mainly performs special operations for a subdivision of the NSA. His ninja-like methods are reinforced by his gadgets. He uses a light meter to stay in shadows and wears distinctive night-vision goggles with his trademark three green glowing lenses. Sam Fisher typically wears high-tech black bodysuits and creeps about using lethal force on high-stakes missions. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is the best game in the series, and it features a really great soundtrack by Amon Tobin. I expect that in the future Sam Fisher will be much more well known after the film is made, and he will provide popular Halloween costumes.

There is one great, non-fiction, spy tv series, Reilly: Ace of Spies starring Sam Neill. Reilly: Ace of Spies is a 1983 mini-series consisting of twelve episodes that followed the life of the real spy that inspired Ian Fleming to create James Bond. The spy was named Sidney Reilly, but his original name is believed to be Sigmund Rosenblum (see center photo). He was born in Russia, faked his own death as a young teenager, stowed away on a ship to Brazil, and soon ended up meeting British spies. He ended up working for the British Secret Service, and went undercover in other countries for extended periods of time. Reilly was utterly ruthless. He once was sent to help another spy steal design plans, and he became the man’s roommate without telling him who he was. He let the other spy be caught and die as Reilly left with the plans. Reilly was a major factor in causing wars. He tried to overthrow Lenin and set himself up as the head of Russia, and he got very close to achieving that to such an extent that he was listed in Russian history books as an enemy of the state. He had no problem poisoning or even executing people. Even Sam Neill, in his returned correspondence to me wrote that, “Reilly wasn’t such a good guy, really.”

Reilly went undercover, became a millionaire, and soon his identity was very fuzzy and even the British did not know if he was working for them. He did not have any sort of regular employee-employer relationship with the British Secret Service anymore, and he became a force to be reckoned with. He moved to the United States, met with captains of industry, and started his own private secret service organization. Before WW2 broke out, Reilly disappeared. It was believed that the Russians finally captured and executed him, but it never confirmed. In fact, there is conjecture that he survived the 1930’s and remained a hidden manipulator of world events after his disappearance. Maybe he was always working for Russia. Even though spy costumes and tv series are fun, real spies live in a world of paranoia and tend to be dark figures that border on being villains.

Even a mask of Spy vs Spy from Mad Magazine is swell for Halloween. But don’t just tie a black mask over your eyes and go as a criminal! Take a chance, lead a life of danger, and dress up as a spy for Halloween!

#secret agent #dangerman #patrick mcgoohan #the prisoner #james bond #The Avengers #spy #callan #edward woodward #Sidney reilly #sam neill #splinter cell

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ivaliantbouquetwizardstuff-blog · 6 years

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The 50 Finest Crime Motion Pictures Of The 21st Century Up Until Now

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Post-World War II, dozens of cop-vs.- distribute films from Hollywood concentrated on local corruption that had actually spread beyond bootlegging to contaminate government, for which films leaned for topical status on the prominent Kefauver Commission examination into urban criminal offense rings in the United States (Wilson, 2005 ). Kobiety mafii called kobiety mafii online a lot of the criminal offense movies of the time movie noir, in celebration of the prominent German expressionism in production style and the dwelling upon death that awaited unlucky anti-heroes who gave in to the corruption around them (Mason, 2012 ).

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First War Machine Clip with Brad Pitt & Anthony Michael Hall

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First War Machine Clip with Brad Pitt & Anthony Michael Hall

First War Machine clip with Brad Pitt & Anthony Michael Hall

Netflix has debuted the first clip from War Machine, coming to the streaming service on May 26. Check out Brad Pitt and Anthony Michael Hall (playing a character based on Gen. Michael Flynn!) in the War Machine clip below!

In a film for our times, writer-director David Michôd (Animal Kingdom) recreates a U.S. General’s roller-coaster rise and fall as part reality, part savage parody – raising the specter of just where the line between them lies today. His is an anti-establishment, pro-soldier exploration in the form of an absurdist war story of a born leader’s ultra-confident march right into the dark heart of folly. At the story’s core is Brad Pitt’s sly take on a successful, charismatic four-star general who leapt in like a rock star to command NATO forces in Afghanistan, only to be taken down by his own hubris and a journalist’s no-holds-barred expose. War Machine addresses the debt we owe to soldiers to question the purposes to which they are being directed.

The Netflix original film is based on the book “The Operators: The Wild & Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan,” by the late journalist Michael Hastings.

Joining Pitt in War Machine is a highly-decorated cast, including Tilda Swinton, Sir Ben Kingsley, Anthony Michael Hall, Topher Grace, Will Poulter, Lakeith Stanfield, Emory Cohen, John Magaro, RJ Cyler, Alan Ruck, Scoot McNairy and Meg Tilly. Ian Bryce and Plan B’s Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Brad Pitt serve as producers. James Skotchdopole serves as executive producer.

What do you think of the new War Machine clip? Are you excited to see Brad Pitt in a comedy? Let us know in the comments below!

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Brad Pitt and Director David Michôd behind the scenes in War Machine.

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