As you may know, I'm a massive John Le Carre fan, got most of his books in signed first editions, and DVDs of all the movies. So I cannot wait to see this.
I only hope they live up to the BBC mini-series of TTSS and others.
The Night Manager is a British-American television serial directed by Susanne Bier and starring Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman, David Harewood, Tom Hollander and Elizabeth Debicki. It is based on the 1993 novel of the same name by John le Carré and has been updated to the present day. The six-part serial began broadcasting on BBC One on 21 February 2016. In the United States, it will begin on 19 April 2016 on AMC.
Cairo, January 2011, the Arab spring. Firecrackers are going off, bricks thrown, cars torched, automatic guns fired in the air. An Englishman in a blue shirt walks through it all, ducking and weaving a little, but not scared, more thrilled; he has seen worse, in Iraq when he was a soldier there. Where is he going? To work, at the Nefertiti hotel, where he is The Night Manager (BBC1, Sunday).
Tom Hiddleston is a perfect Jonathan Pine – polite, calm, charming, confident but self-deprecating, a little mysterious, very English and astonishingly handsome (in many ways, he reminds me a bit of myself). A beautiful woman called Sophie Aleka flashes her secret documents at him, about her wicked boyfriend Freddie Hamid buying an arsenal of weapons from an even wickeder man – “the worst man in the world”, she calls him – named Richard Roper, in order to crush the popular uprising.
Jonathan does the decent thing – did I mention he was decent? – and shows the documents to his chum at the British embassy. Then he takes Sophie to a safe house out of town. “Why do you sit so far away?” she purrs. Out of respect, he says. “Is that why you came all the way here, to respect me?” I don’t think so. She tells him he has many different voices, he’s always changing. Anyway, “I want one of your many selves to sleep with me tonight, you can choose which one,” she says. He does, decently.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Hugh Laurie, what a delightful surprise. He turned out to be a musician who also acts rather than an actor who also is a musician. Always a pleasure either way.
Some great videos of him going to N.O. and performing in Paris with a band.
Just finished watching this series. Very, very well done.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Oh pshaw! I love LeCarre and would definitely watch the Night Manager when I can get away from this buying data-time country and back to where watching Netflix doesn't cost me an arm, a leg and parts of the kidney.
OTOH watching Vikings and thinking how meagre it is compared to Game of Thrones. Character development is almost non-existent.
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“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
Long Run wrote:Sorry, it is available with an Amazon Prime membership.
I'll check it out then...
(Hopefully it is available with just the Prime membership. Amazon has an annoying habit of charging additional ala carte fees for a lot of its movies and TV shows, even when you've already paid the annual Prime membership fee.)
It is available to stream with just regular Prime. No additional charge.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
All the main characters are superbly rendered, and Elizabeth Debicki is stunning.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Just finished it today after starting a few weeks back; excellent production. Hugh Laurie was a great villain, he made me hate him even though I find him very likable.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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We finally got around to it, and then watched it over two nights ...(It was tough not to stay up all night and watch all six episodes)
What an incredible talent Hugh Laurie is...I'd never seen him play a pure villain before...
A great comedic performer who is also a great dramatic actor with the smoldering, intense, dramatic presence and timing of Bogart...(In House, Chance, , The Night Manager)
And then of course there's his musical skills...
An extraordinarily talented man...
Plus by all accounts, a very decent and down-to-earth bloke...
There are at least 20 people walking around with no talent for anything, because Hugh Laurie got it for all of them...
