.. It's not How you Play at The Game It's How at The Game Plays you
"Poor IS at The pupil the WHO does not the Surpass His-Teacher" (Leonardo Da Vinci)
! An In at The End, only friendship Matters
lot of flashback picture weaken The tension and fun of the film.
-"Los Angeles Times"
sports car advertisement.
-"The New York Times"
Robert Redford and Brad Pitt's performance is commendable.
-The New York Post is
a successful thriller that combines friendship, loyalty, and inquiries about spies.
——“Hollywood Report”
TOP behind-the-scenes production:
In order to conceive and prepare the script of the film, the screenwriter Michael Frost Beckner spent 5 years. The story of the film is based on the CIA from 1975 to 1991. The world structure is surging, and the CIA is also undergoing changes. Before this, Beckner had studied the CIA for many years and wrote a TV script about the CIA. He hopes to explore the patriotism in the special period of the Cold War through the script, because the CIA back then is very different from the present, and the film story is different from the past, paying great attention to the fate of the characters.
The film traces some of the history of the CIA, including actions in Vietnam, Berlin and Beirut. Like the title "Spy Game", in the spy game, it is a test of life and death, and the friendship between the characters, The pain and awakening make the film more bitter and profound.
The biggest attraction of "Spy Game" is of course the two old and new handsome guys, Brad Pitt and Robert Redford. The looks of the two are also somewhat similar, both of which are slightly wild and unruly. Temperament. In 1992, it was the film "Lover on the River" directed by Redford that made Peter, who was still young and pure at the time, in the play, the brother Paul, who was free and unrestrained in appearance, and full of contradictions and struggles in his heart, let the little-known Peter in one fell swoop. Fame. After 9 years, although Peter is already a superstar in Hollywood, he will not forget the kindness of Redford when he wants to come, and Redford has gradually shifted his energy to behind-the-scenes work in the past few years. I don’t know if he looks forward to it. How about a spark against Brad Pitt, who was known as a copy of his youth?
TOP Highlights:
· The prison scene was shot in an abandoned prison in Oxford, Vietnam and Beirut shots were shot in Casablanca, Morocco, and Berlin in 1975 was shot in Budapest, Hungary.
·The scene of the military base in the film was shot in a small town on the edge of the Sahara Desert. Previously, "Gladiator" and "Tomb of the Lost City 2" were filmed here.
·The plot of the film about the CIA is based on the documentary about the CIA taken by the Discovery Channel and was shot in London.
In order to shoot the aerial shots of the film, the director invited senior stunt pilot Mark Wolf. Previously, he had participated in filming films including "Indiana Jones", "Saving Private Ryan" and "Mission Impossible".
·The filming took 4 months.
·Part of the film was originally scheduled to be shot in Israel, but due to the deterioration of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in September and October 2000, and the insurance company quickly raised objections, the shooting plan in Israel was cancelled.
The section where Nathan asked Tom to rush to the balcony within 5 minutes is derived from the memoirs of former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky, which records the training of the agent.
The actor playing Sandy is the wife of the former US ambassador to Hungary.
·The US Embassy in Hong Kong that appears in the film is actually the headquarters of HSBC.
· Nathan’s private car is the Porsche 912.
TOP wonderful dialogue:
Nathan Muir: See that building across the way?
Nathan: Do you see the building across the way ?
Tom Bishop: Yeah.
Tom: Yes.
Nathan Muir: Do you know anyone there? Nathan: Do you know anyone there
?
Tom Bishop: No.
Tom: No.
Nathan Muir: In five minutes I want to see you on the balcony. Nathan: In five minutes I want to see you on the balcony
.
Tom Bishop: What do...
Tom: What?
Nathan Muir: Five minutes.
Nathan: 5 minutes.
Tom Bishop: Can't we discuss it over coffee?
Tom : Can we discuss it over coffee ?
Nathan Muir: You just lost ten seconds.
Nathan: You have wasted ten seconds.
Tom Bishop: I thought spies drank martinis.
Tom: I think the agent should drink martinis.
Nathan Muir: Scotch, never less than twelve years old.
Nathan: Scotch, not less than 12 years old.
Tom Bishop: Is that right? Agency rules?
Tom: Really? The rules of the Intelligence Bureau?
Nathan Muir: My rules. Nathan: My rules
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TOP wear-through lens:
·Hong Kong does not have the US embassy, only the US consulate.
· Computers and monitors produced in the late 1990s appeared in the film CIA in 1985 and 1991.
· The walls of the CIA headquarters can block radio waves, making it impossible to use mobile phones, and the Nokia 2100 mobile phone used by Nathan only began production in 1994, when it was in 1991.
·The security measures in the film are full of loopholes.
· In a coffee shop in Beirut in 1985, huge Coca-Cola advertisements were posted, and Coca-Cola only entered the Lebanese market in July 1990.
·China has long been able to treat cholera without foreign assistance
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