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KSav said:
@Medusa, I'm about halfway through this series and still enjoying it. It actually seems to be more of a drama than scifi or horror. So far it's still creepy but not disturbing! But I can post again after I've seen all the episodes if you like.
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Thank you, @KSav; I have put this one on my Netfix watch list.
Yes, I'd like your final opinion, if you're feeling it, when you've finished the series. :)
 

Has anyone else seem "Monsieur Spade"? It stars Clive Owen, who I sometimes like and is set in France in the early '60s... flashbacks into the '40s &'50s.
I liked it for being well done, good cast performances and filming. The story did get a bit convoluted for me but I think that it's worth a try, especially if you were ever a Sam Spade fan.
 
Ted01 said:
Has anyone else seem "Monsieur Spade"? It stars Clive Owen, who I sometimes like and is set in France in the early '60s... flashbacks into the '40s &'50s.
I liked it for being well done, good cast performances and filming. The story did get a bit convoluted for me but I think that it's worth a try, especially if you were ever a Sam Spade fan.
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Yes, I watched it when it first aired. First of all it, was a nicely done production. Well acted and mysterious. That said, my guess is they tied the story to Sam Spade simply to create interest. It was so far removed from anything that Spade was likely to have done, that one had to brush that right out of the way in order to take the story on it's own merits.

I thought the rank nun murders were a little much. But the story itself was pretty well put together. Owen did nice work, although his character was written a little too moody-- unlike Hammett's character. Overall an enjoyable watch, but I doubt there will be a sequel.
 
ChiroDoc said:
Yes, I watched it when it first aired. First of all it, was a nicely done production. Well acted and mysterious. That said, my guess is they tied the story to Sam Spade simply to create interest. It was so far removed from anything that Spade was likely to have done, that one had to brush that right out of the way in order to take the story on it's own merits.

I thought the rank nun murders were a little much. But the story itself was pretty well put together. Owen did nice work, although his character was written a little too moody-- unlike Hammett's character. Overall an enjoyable watch, but I doubt there will be a sequel.
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Wonderful insights!

I have no doubt that you're right about using the established character as a way to draw in interest of old timers like me, haha.
But I never really did follow the "true" Sam Spade... of the Hammett novel(s?), just the Bogart version and various spinoff detectives of later film noir. But in the Falcon movie, I thought that Bogie played him rather "moody", don't you think? (er, maybe I'm thinking Phillip Marlowe? idk)

I doubt that there'll be a sequel either... prolly just as well.
Thanks for the reply!
 
Ted01 said:
Wonderful insights!

I have no doubt that you're right about using the established character as a way to draw in interest of old timers like me, haha.
But I never really did follow the "true" Sam Spade... of the Hammett novel(s?), just the Bogart version and various spinoff detectives of later film noir. But in the Falcon movie, I thought that Bogie played him rather "moody", don't you think? (er, maybe I'm thinking Phillip Marlowe? idk)

I doubt that there'll be a sequel either... prolly just as well.
Thanks for the reply!
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It's funny that there are very few film performances of Sam Spade, in contrast to all the actors who've played Phillip Marlowe. Bogart's is the most enjoyable Spade, but I can't say that he impersonated the character from Hammett's novels.

The Key thing about Bogart's Same Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941) is that Bogart originated the type of P.I. that had never been seen before: a rather ruthless and amoral individual who was not interested in so much following the law as he was in marching to his own drummer. He certainly nabbed people for the law, but then again he was not above sleeping with his partner's wife. And also the picture pretty much ushered in the film noir movement in Hollywood.

IMO Bogart's Marlowe was not so much moody as he was unpredictable.
 
We just started Halston on Netflix. It is about the rise and fall of the designer. Ewan McGregor is the spitting image of Halston and the actress that plays Liza Minelli is great. Ryan Murphy had a hand in it, so expect it to be campy and salacious. The 60's and 70's settings and outfits are nostalgic.

 
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