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Spy Game (2001)
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"I was jogging the other day, listening to Filmcouch #97, and the boys on the program asked whether there are any movies being made in the old spy genre anymore. Pure spy movies, as I think they put it. Or are we now left with, through evolutionary Hollywood transmogrification, only action spies (Bourne), humorous spoofy spies (Powers), and a few self-referential takes on the old genre, viz., The Constant Gardener.So for a few blocks I mentally recapitulated the efflorescence of the spy genre in the Sixties, as I remember it. Fleming, who started it all when JFK told an interviewer that he read the Bond books before bed at night, Len Deighton (Michael Caine as Quiller), the Flint movies. Richard Burton in the first La Carre effort.Then I spent a couple of blocks coming up with the following list:Spy Kids (2001, 2002)
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"Because Director Tony Scott likes to edit very tightly, all the details of Spy Game were a little tough to follow on first viewing. The second time through, I appreciated Scott’s visual style. He likes to have a lot of texture in each shot, meaning there is often three or four layers to a shot e.g., a CIA agent looking through a glass wall at a board meeting with a TV playing in the board room and lights reflecting off the glass. In this movie, that is not a fortuitous style tick but rather a technique that fits perfectly with the theme of multiple layers of perception in the CIA’s convoluted world. Tony Scott also pulls in tight on the characters faces so that when they move there is an exaggerated sense of motion and action on the screen. Fortunately, he has good actors in this tale of a mentor relationship that goes wrong (and then goes right in the end). Robert Redford is perfectly cold and professional as the veteran CIA agent; Brad Pitt, as his understudy, is a bi ... "
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Spy Game - Old school fun
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"This one was partly filmed here in Budapest, and I LOVE spy books and movies, so this was a big hit with me. Lots of tension, nice photography, what's not to like? Brad maybe... "
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