His character in that show is so good. I love how you get tiny glimpses of his past as an agent and slowly over several seasons start to realize that this dude is a legit MI5 legend. Dude is actually competent as fuck lol.
I also love how he’s like the polar opposite of his portrayal of Smiley in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
a combination of studio interference, budget overruns, going over schedule, test screening bollocks and director’s hubris.
Coppola wanted to do both an accurate-in-spirit adaptation, pay homages to Murnau/Herzog, Universal and Hammer Draculas, do some of his own stuff and then some as it goes - all at once in no particular order. so the film is overstuffed and it shows.
then there is studio with an expectation of a Dracula movie that is slightly more sophisticated than usual but essentially a vampire movie with vampire stuff, then Coppola delivers this Ken Russell-coded lavish mystic melodrama that moves at glacial pace and studio goes “whoa easy big feller” and because that’s post One from the Heart Coppola he is not in the position to argue so gotta compromise - which led to choppy choppy because the storytelling is too cerebral, there is too much gore stuff, too much sex stuff, too much vibes stuff and so on - and there’s a runtime cap on top of that.
As a result, there is like half an hour of deleted scenes on DVD that should’ve been in the movie and the workprint showcases how the ending was originally supposed to unroll - basically - it got very heavily streamlined to fit the runtime and communicate the basic point - so it falls apart narratively and stops making sense as a ritual it was meant to be.
Yup. I remember at the end of Batman Begins I was thinking “the guy they got to play Gordon was really good, I don’t think I’ve seen him anything before, I need to check the credits to see who that was… oh, it’s Gary Oldman? Yeah… I think may have seen that guy in a few things before.”
The man is a chameleon, able to disappear into any role.
A person of culture: “He is able to play everyone.”
A noob: “Everyone?”
" …EEE-VERY-OOONE!"
that’s so disgusting
Yoink.
i use “i haven’t got time for this MICKEY MOUSE BULLSHIT” in life way too often, and i’m not sorry about it
well, he is a professional.
I can practically smell him through the screen.
His character in that show is so good. I love how you get tiny glimpses of his past as an agent and slowly over several seasons start to realize that this dude is a legit MI5 legend. Dude is actually competent as fuck lol.
I also love how he’s like the polar opposite of his portrayal of Smiley in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
you literally can’t tell it’s him playing winston churchill
That burned dude in the wheelchair from Hannibal is where he got me. I didn’t know it was him until the credits rolled.
Tiptoes. The real Gs know.
I just watched this for the first time the other day. The last quarter has got to be some of the worst screenplay I have ever seen.
How does something like that even get written? I know there’s some lore with an original cut, but man. It’s so bad
a combination of studio interference, budget overruns, going over schedule, test screening bollocks and director’s hubris.
Coppola wanted to do both an accurate-in-spirit adaptation, pay homages to Murnau/Herzog, Universal and Hammer Draculas, do some of his own stuff and then some as it goes - all at once in no particular order. so the film is overstuffed and it shows. then there is studio with an expectation of a Dracula movie that is slightly more sophisticated than usual but essentially a vampire movie with vampire stuff, then Coppola delivers this Ken Russell-coded lavish mystic melodrama that moves at glacial pace and studio goes “whoa easy big feller” and because that’s post One from the Heart Coppola he is not in the position to argue so gotta compromise - which led to choppy choppy because the storytelling is too cerebral, there is too much gore stuff, too much sex stuff, too much vibes stuff and so on - and there’s a runtime cap on top of that.
As a result, there is like half an hour of deleted scenes on DVD that should’ve been in the movie and the workprint showcases how the ending was originally supposed to unroll - basically - it got very heavily streamlined to fit the runtime and communicate the basic point - so it falls apart narratively and stops making sense as a ritual it was meant to be.
Too true. My fav role of his is where he constantly oozes marmite from his head.
Yup. I remember at the end of Batman Begins I was thinking “the guy they got to play Gordon was really good, I don’t think I’ve seen him anything before, I need to check the credits to see who that was… oh, it’s Gary Oldman? Yeah… I think may have seen that guy in a few things before.”