Many of John LeCarre's spy novels have been turned into movies and TV shows. The best of them, in my opinion, is the BBC series of Tinker, Tailor. Smiley's People is the close second. Other novels by LeCarre that have been turned into movies are of mixed qualities. But I can't blame the movies because they can't be better than the original novels. The Deadly Affair was good, but in a weird sort of way; it was more of a psychological drama than a spy thriller because it dwelled on the agony of Smiley over his unfaithful wife (though the protagonist is called by another name). The Tailor of Panama could've been good, if they had cast someone other than Pierce Brosnan. The Perfect Gardner and some other movie whose name I can't recall now were based on topics that aren't as interesting as the Karla trilogy.
Turning Tinker Tailor into a two-hour movie is a difficult job considering the multiple characters and plot twists. When I was watching the BBC version, I had to constantly look up the character list and the spy jargon definitions in the DVD package to follow the story. So the director did a marvelous job producing the movie version.
I think that LeCarre was one of the most intellectual and sophisticated thriller writers of the 20th century. And he covered the most interesting and intriguing period of the espionage war during the Cold War: the Soviet moles in the British intelligence. It was a time of betrayal and conflicting loyalties.
I hope that they make a movie version of Smiley's People, too. John LeCarre is no longer with us, but his legacy lives on through his masterpiece espionage novels.
Turning Tinker Tailor into a two-hour movie is a difficult job considering the multiple characters and plot twists. When I was watching the BBC version, I had to constantly look up the character list and the spy jargon definitions in the DVD package to follow the story. So the director did a marvelous job producing the movie version.
I think that LeCarre was one of the most intellectual and sophisticated thriller writers of the 20th century. And he covered the most interesting and intriguing period of the espionage war during the Cold War: the Soviet moles in the British intelligence. It was a time of betrayal and conflicting loyalties.
I hope that they make a movie version of Smiley's People, too. John LeCarre is no longer with us, but his legacy lives on through his masterpiece espionage novels.