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Shouldn t they call it The 2nd of November Man?
@Thunderfinger, or November Man 2: Season's Greetings.
@Murdock, haha!
They called him 'The November Man' because after he passed through, nothing lived. Now, he's an even bleaker motherf@#$er.
Pierce Brosnan stars as Peter Devereaux in
The December Man
"It was just standard operating procedure. Boys with toys."
The other kids used to call him The January Boy because every time he spoke, he shared a New Year's Resolution.
Pierce Brosnan stars as a young Peter Devereaux in...
The January Boy
Brosnan starred in The November Man.
Maybe Daniel should star in The December Troubles.
The human story was far more interesting than any of the political goings-on for me.
We just feel different then. Personally I happen to enjoy the spy genre that much for its interweaving with the political/real world (read the things that ultimately spell our present and future ).
Also, nothing there it's really new or original if you ask me, while the premise of the movie is at least kind of.
To tell you the truth, if I was that much into drama as you are I'd probably turn to another genre.
The tighter your budget is the more reason you have to concentrate on the story development.
And as I said, what makes me wonder is how are you can invent such a good premise and then become so yawn in moving the story along. Imagine Putin knew that someone is running around who's got proof he was behind that bombing. How do you think he would react? Do you really imagine things would go on the way as they do in the movie?
I just happen to feel somehow sad whenever a good idea is wasted.
@noSolaceleft, you say this a lot to me-"Find something else/Find another genre"-but that's never my hang-up with these things. Films, no matter what genre, live and die by character. Plots that are interesting can certainly improve a film, but without a basis of character I care about, I'll be left indifferent even if a screenwriter formulated the single greatest twist of all time or the most heart-stopping mystery. It's why I prefer the likes of Sherlock Holmes to the modern Law & Orders or the CSIs; I care for character, not plot, and the latter is all that most procedural shows have to support themselves on.
When I was watching The November Man I was interested and invested in Pierce's spy, how he became so cold and how his own rules he told to his protege were ones he hypocritically soiled himself. I wanted to see how he'd act in opposition to his so-called only friend as the agent came after him, and how far he'd be willing to push himself to do the job without mercy. He was a cold, miserable, contradictory man that had me glued to the screen, and I couldn't get enough. Where Olga's character was concerned I had similar investment, and was fascinated by the human angle of her role in saving those who were silenced by a terrible war. Adding in all the corrupt government agents and the rogue fight Pierce's character has to mount over old allies, and I was quite engaged.
The plot underneath all that wasn't the greatest thing I've ever experienced, but I didn't have complaints either. And that's largely because all the events I saw developed were caused by the characters I actually gave a damn about.
I guess we just have different ideas about what these genres mean, and how they are realized. Character reigns over everything, and that's why Bond was a success in his genre, and Holmes in his. Plot are secondary, because the interest of the reader or viewer is predicated on them caring about the characters that all the action is happening to. It's not a convention of genre, it's a convention of storytelling that all the successes are bound by.
Plots are secondary? We really have very different ideas of what constitutes the genre. Come to think about it, make that any genre.
@noSolaceleft, plots are vital, but they do not trump character for me. Why you find this a shock to your system is puzzling. I don't find it a strange concept to prefer watching films and reading books that have characters in them that you actually care about, as opposed to ones with a decent plot and paper-thin cardboard cut-out characters. I don't finish a mystery novel and talk for hours or devote all my writing time to analyzing how cool it was that the gardner was the killer. It's the detective and supporting cast that it's built around that create that kind of passion and interest.
Who things happen to will always be more impactful and salient than the things that happen to them. That's all down to events or happenings being absolutes and characters themselves being relative. The same event or tragedy can happen to a bunch of characters, like a betrayal or a type of crime, but how the different characters deal with it makes it interesting because they aren't all the same. It's the characters that give the variety and life to the events that they are put under. It's why people finish books and films and, even if they forget literally every plot development or story of the thing, they'll be able to pick out a character they liked. We engage more readily with the human story, because we are one.
The caring for and investing in the protagonists comes with careful and thorough development of the story. If they act believable and somehow logical this is almost inevitable.
You see, if they had followed that rule in SF it might have been even believable that Bond weeps because of M's dead.
If you really like insightful psychological development written in the best possible language I would really advise you to read the works of Stefan Zweig and the classic Greek mythology.
It really doesn't get any better than that! Why spend time with chicken feed if you can have a gourmet feast?
I am starting to think that Pierce is going after all those beautiful women that he couldn't get as Bond, like he's scratching off a list or something :))
It's finally happening: The Foreigner with Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan, directed by Martin Campbell:
Hopefully it's released before we're all gone. The gestation period on this thing seems like forever.
Well it certainly says something that, despite having Pierce in the film, the teaser line mentions the latter instead.