The final scene, underlaid by La Mer, is one of the best-edited, best-timed, best-acted denouements I've ever seen. It's the neatest bow on a superb, neat film. Everybody on-screen and off, at the absolute top of their game. It's perfection.
The movie is missing so much and doesn't explain much, Prideaux was close to Haydon and felt betrayed as he was tortured by the Russians and that's why he killed him.
I totally agree! I bought the streaming version and watch it periodically! That said I didn’t read the book so don’t know how the movie veers. And yes, I think Prideaux felt betrayed because of their closeness but also, to me, for Hayden’s betrayal of “all of the boys” and country. Hayden would be sent to USSR with no accountability. Just a great,complex movie that some of us will continue to watch.
@@moryan6447 Love the movie overall, there's a TV series starring Alex Guiness made that's worth watching as well, more faithful to the book and far more detail.
The whole movie is a master class in storytelling, directing and acting. It's brilliant really including the painful ending with Ricky standing in the rain hoping against hope to see her again and Connie in the window with a cigarette wondering where it all went wrong for her when she was so right.
When Guillam walked passed Smiley he just couldn't help but give a cheeky smirk, and who could blame him with a boss as cool as that? Seeing him in Control's chair was awesome. George Smiley is the man.
With that final scene of Smiley sitting at the head of the table, all I can think is: It's not too late for Alfredson to adapt more John le Carre novels! I would LOVE to see more of Oldman as Smiley.
Jim didn't do that to the boy, in the book. He mentored him: became his role model. I did not care for this change, at all. Jim was betrayed but he NEVER betrayed in turn. I don't know why I'm standing up for a fictional character... But here I am.
I get it…but I also kind of get the change. It’s a moment of tough love. He doesn’t want to see young Bill walk the same path he did. Broken, alone and betrayed. And given young Bill’s nature…I guess he was doing what he thought was right. I didn’t mind the change. I didn’t see it as a betrayal. I saw it as tough love. If you truly love someone then let them go.
because you like the principle of it. and those principles reflect the thinking of the author who created the story in the first place. and stories in general are the most powerful way of passing along our models of reality. the tampering of the character is tampering with important concepts that were both written by a great genius who knew what he was talking about, and also fit correctly with your own observations of human behavior. Also, it was cruel and stupid.
This is a most wonderful film, stella cast, no swearing, no outlandish car chases, no over the top sex scenes, just top quality acting, and Mark Strong such a superb actor, as was all the cast
I was sure that noone could top the Alec Guiness portrayal...until I saw how Gary Oldman took the part and wove it into something so much more nuanced. A Perfect Living Actors' representation of how Less is always More. Amazing.
And Connie left alone, knowing that her beloved Circus was violated. The best is Percy, walking past George - I'm guessing that he's been so painfully sacked that he's genuinely oblivious to Smiley being there.
Pe li cu lon! Debe de ser de las mas subvaloradas. Tremenda. El trabajo de edicion encapsulando la esencia del msg de la peli en la cancion es un desbole de genialidad. No tiene desperdicio.🙌 ❤
it's easy to overlook in the movie, but, also taken from the books, the Circus had some truly amazingly adept people working in it: Jim Prideaux, who realised who the mole was before anyone else, so mentally trained that weeks of sleep deprivation and torture didnt break him, master marksman, Connie, who had an extraordinary memory and eye to detail, capable of noticing things anyone would miss, Bill, who managed to live as a double agent for decades under anybody's nose, Peter, the perfect right hand; silent, smart, fearless. and obviously George, whose greatest skill, the ability to follow and make sense of a moltitude of threads without losing sight of the objective. And, in the books, Jerry, De Salis, Tarr, even Lacon. They're all flawed but they all show to be extremely competent and skilled in the end
That was the point of the book. Le Carre was surrounded by mediocrity and incompetence in MI5 and MI6, leading a boring life, so he wrote about what he would have liked it to be like. It wasn't all the fault of the spies - I've recently read about Klaus Fuchs and how MI5 and 6, and the FBI, worked to bring him down, and you realise that a lot of the problems are caused by internal politics and the law itself. MI5 wanted not only to catch a spy but to prosecute him successfully. They made many mistakes, but in Britain (and the USA) they couldn't simply make one disappear.
This is one of those rare movies that as soon as I have watched it to the end, I start watching it from the beginning one more time. I loved this movie from the beginning, and I don¨t understand why it's not higher in peoples appreciation.
One reason for this in my opinion is that it’s not an easy movie to follow for a casual viewer, there are a lot of things which aren’t given a vivid explanation but are nonetheless there for the viewer to see and hear as long as they are fully invested in it and paying attention. In that way it reminds me of certain elements of Tarantino movies, which rely on the viewer’s perception of events and dialogue. A friend of mine complained about tinker tailor to me saying it was very boring as it mainly consisted of men sitting at tables talking and arguing, which could be considered true because he didn’t get the gist of it at all. The really clever thing about the film is the subtleness of the dialogue and the little details contained in the scenes which can be easily missed if not paying proper attention. In that sense it’s in a bit of a niche as the majority of movies are aimed at people with short attention spans and low patience so they don’t get bored and switch off, while tinker tailor is more of a slow burner building up to a very intense finale, giving us hints all the way through. That’s why I think it’s a masterpiece
The more I watch Tinker Tailor, the more I've come to love Mark Strong s portrayal of a deeply hurt man who's been to hell and back, all because of the man he loved. Jimmy Prid, that is.
Strong's performance is sublime, especially in the above scenes at the party, when he slowly realises that the man he loves is a traitor. It's brilliantly acted and shot.
I like that everything got so messed up cos everyone was banging each other , only in the UK would it go on for so long , we don't like airing our laundry
@@sergejkarov9149 Actually I think he did know then, or at least was highly suspect of him. If you remember the scenes where Smiley interviews Bill Haydon in that holding cell at the end, Smiley mentions something about Jim Prideaux being aware, or suspecting Haydon. I can't remember the exact wording, but it is mentioned. Watch it again, as I will. :)
I read Tinker, Tailor many years ago (a few times) I had the tv adaption with Alec Guinness on video tape and later on dvd and put off watching this movie because I thought the original couldn’t be matched. It was, a little more stylised but every bit as good. If only they’d make Smiley’s People now.
I've watched it many times . The intricacies are many and it's textures only reveal themselves as you get to know each of the characters better. As good as it gets. A true classic!
@@historex54tamiyaIts a perfect song for the period version of it and it’s something spies would probably listen to. A French love song sung by a Spanish singer. Very international and cosmopolitan
@jamo3976 watch the BBC series and you find out how it should have been done. The ending and the movie misunderstands le carré's book. It is miscast and the sets are ridiculous.
What a wonderfully edited sequence. Tells a complete fucking story in the span of one song. I know we can talk about the performances and direction but the editing in this sequence is brilliantly paced and crafted. Great work from top to bottom
I had to watch this film five times before i fully understood it - it's THAT good. In the context of the film, the ending is just stunning. Oh dear, i'm not usually an espionage kind of guy, but Prideaux was firing from below so yeah, the bullet would have gone up into Haydon's brain. RIP Bill Haydon.
thanks to this clip, watching it again now, #6. Oh my God, i never got it. Peter Guillam is homosexual. No wonder he has no interest in the lovely Belinda.
No, i did not get it all the fifth time, only 90 percent. George tried to save Karla, convince him to defect, when he was facing return to apparent certain death at the hands of the Soviets. Tragically, he was a diehard Communist, willing even to die for Communism. However, he survived.
@@Meandgenevieve - Yes, when Smiley told Guillam to 'clean up his loose ends', because it could get messy, so Guillams 'flat mate' had to leave... So sad, so many facets !
I had seen bits of this movie over the years and decided it was time for a full viewing. After seeing it four times I am still moved by the ending. What a wonderful way to finally acknowledge the love of Prideaux and Haydon. That said, I am a Smiley man through and through.
Well said. That was well done, and mostly untouched in the BBC series, I think. That was why I was disappointed they turned Sherlock gay as well (not that he doesn't give good gay, of course). In the novel it's a woman he dumps unceremoniously. Maybe one day we can live in a world where a movie director doesn't need to twist a character's sexuality just to suit a narrow agenda, even when that agenda is light years ahead of the agenda it is dismantling.
small gestures, small means of expression... but what a great story, what a great characters, what a great emotions... This movie is a masterpiece indeed.
The timing! The moment of gut wrenching regret for what hes about to do cut short by the shot that hits with the suddenness of reality crashing through your door is purely and simply grown up storytelling that no longer exists in popular culture
Just brilliant. I remember first seeing the film in a group which was vastly lost quite early on. I and another were completely entranced by it, watching it bloom into a true climax of pure thriller-laden espionage. I’ll never forget that and feel lucky that I/we ‘got it’ first time. Though, I did rewatch it when released to firm things up. Timelessly brilliant in my opinion.
There are so many subtleties to enjoy throughout this movie and in this clip. I just watched the 1979 series, and I don't think it compares. The casting for all the major roles in this film was outstanding.
The BBC series is much better for texture, detail and acting, but if you have to stuff it all into 2 hours and 12 minutes this was a fine way to do it.
Esta película está en el top 5 de mis favoritas. Grande, grande, grande... Sin fallos. No sobra ni falta nada. Un reparto espectacular para una historia perfectamente narrada. Genial.
A lot of great movies--even masterpieces--fail to land the plane at the very end. It's so hard to do. Drawing together story, character, themes, tone, past, and present like this is really something special. Hard pressed to think of a final sequence I like better.
An excellent movie...perfect in every way...and the end...fantastic...so well done with Le mer. I watched this movie many times and still it nevers disappoints.
I think my favorite part of the ending is when Smiley comes home. His wife is back and for the first time in the entire movie, you see him falter for a moment and hold himself steady on the staircase rail. Just an incredible ending to an incredible film.
I think this movie/story encapsulates a place far beyond the ordinary or mundane, yet the emotions and relationships are as old as time itself. We witness loyalty, betrayal, secrecy, revenge, itegrity and/or the lack of it and the price each character pays for their chosen path. All brought together in this fine adaption of Le Carre's masterpiece portraying a rather seedy world. The casting was supurb and the sheer Britishness of it all makes for a glorious piece of cinema.
As much as i like alec guiness as smiley, i have to say i prefer oldman as smiley and this version they capture the decade perfectly reminds me of childhood, bloody good film never gets old, or tired and an exellent first class performance by all actors but what a bloody good actor oldman is, perfection in that role
The problem with Guniness was believability and suspension of disbelief. The idea he could have made it from Tatooine back to 1970s Earth and been regenerated as an old English spy just defies all plausibility.
Have you ever wondered who had it in for you ? That feeling someone had an advantage over you but just could not pinpoint the rat .It could be anyone A brother Sister Friend or well anyone you were in close contact with .This film gave me the feeling I was in that very position of mistrust in my life where everyone was a potential enemy and the oh la la French rendition of the sad but comforting song "La Mer" seem to make the fear and hurt bearable ,
Managed to record this movie onto a CD; great movie, keep re-watching it over and over; no cheap theatrics, just a great story with relatively unknowns but for John Hurt; and I think the best recording of La Mer ever by one of the greatest singers ever.
@@aaronkazi I was more worried he "managed to record this movie onto a CD". It sounds like he might have just discovered that electricity is now a thing.
Brilliant as Gary Oldman Mark Strong et al are, the BBC TV series with Alec Guiness as Smiley has the time to do the complexity of the story justice. In the 1970s viewers were assumed to have the capacity to understand a complex drama. Now its Downturn Abbey & Bridgerton, all froth & no guiness.
Unfortunately the movie performed quite bad at the box office therefore a sequel is unlikely. I'd love to see all the Karla's trilogy but I think that It'll never happen.
Well, maybe, but he was actually doing the kid the greatest favour of his life. He didn't want the boy modelling himself on him. That's REAL compassion and humanity.
@@texastea5686 Yeah it sucks for Bill, but even though he doesn't know it he's ultimately better off in the long run. Prideaux is a lonely and broken individual, just like the rest of them are, and he's trying to spare Bill that fate.
I actually thought I'd never watch this film as after reading the books and watching the BBC adaptation (several times each) I reckoned nothing could better them. Although the movie isn't better than the books or TV version, it's certainly worthwhile watching with great acting/casting
The final scene, underlaid by La Mer, is one of the best-edited, best-timed, best-acted denouements I've ever seen. It's the neatest bow on a superb, neat film. Everybody on-screen and off, at the absolute top of their game. It's perfection.
Best Spy movie ever.. Real, witty, high stakes., clever... And what an ending. Never gets old
The movie is missing so much and doesn't explain much, Prideaux was close to Haydon and felt betrayed as he was tortured by the Russians and that's why he killed him.
I totally agree! I bought the streaming version and watch it periodically! That said I didn’t read the book so don’t know how the movie veers. And yes, I think Prideaux felt betrayed because of their closeness but also, to me, for Hayden’s betrayal of “all of the boys” and country. Hayden would be sent to USSR with no accountability. Just a great,complex movie that some of us will continue to watch.
@@moryan6447 Love the movie overall, there's a TV series starring Alex Guiness made that's worth watching as well, more faithful to the book and far more detail.
The mini series 1979 was better and it IS the best.
Well, second, maybe, after Spies Like Us
What a cast, what a movie, what a song!
yes almost perfect...
The whole movie is a master class in storytelling, directing and acting. It's brilliant really including the painful ending with Ricky standing in the rain hoping against hope to see her again and Connie in the window with a cigarette wondering where it all went wrong for her when she was so right.
I completely missed Connie in the window. Fantastic movie.
When Guillam walked passed Smiley he just couldn't help but give a cheeky smirk, and who could blame him with a boss as cool as that? Seeing him in Control's chair was awesome. George Smiley is the man.
But that image is so sad....he is completely alone....he got that chair....loosing all other people
I just thank God that have talent and imagination to write master pieces. Most people use those gifts and talents it to produce trash
But Smiley had one glaring weakness, his kryptonite, his wife ..... which made him human, and a believable character.
@ivanozappulla1274 the price paid for country.
@@ivanozappulla1274Na, he dropped the inept dead weight. Those other clowns were being bent over a barrel by the Russians and didn’t even realize it.
With that final scene of Smiley sitting at the head of the table, all I can think is: It's not too late for Alfredson to adapt more John le Carre novels! I would LOVE to see more of Oldman as Smiley.
Oh definitely! Before Oldman becomes too old to play Smiley.
Jim didn't do that to the boy, in the book. He mentored him: became his role model. I did not care for this change, at all. Jim was betrayed but he NEVER betrayed in turn. I don't know why I'm standing up for a fictional character... But here I am.
I get it…but I also kind of get the change. It’s a moment of tough love. He doesn’t want to see young Bill walk the same path he did. Broken, alone and betrayed. And given young Bill’s nature…I guess he was doing what he thought was right. I didn’t mind the change. I didn’t see it as a betrayal. I saw it as tough love. If you truly love someone then let them go.
because you like the principle of it. and those principles reflect the thinking of the author who created the story in the first place. and stories in general are the most powerful way of passing along our models of reality. the tampering of the character is tampering with important concepts that were both written by a great genius who knew what he was talking about, and also fit correctly with your own observations of human behavior. Also, it was cruel and stupid.
Big up, mark! Best watcher in the unit , eh
I think he did that to protect the boy from the dark side of his identity.
@@barbados3592 *watches one Jordan Peterson video
Seeing the ending again makes me want to watch it again now…. It’s a slow burn but delivers so well.
I watched it 3 times and in will do it again for sure 😊
I just rewatched the bbc version on yt, in a 10 hour video that also includes smileys people
This is a most wonderful film, stella cast, no swearing, no outlandish car chases, no over the top sex scenes, just top quality acting, and Mark Strong such a superb actor, as was all the cast
I was sure that noone could top the Alec Guiness portrayal...until I saw how Gary Oldman took the part and wove it into something so much more nuanced. A Perfect Living Actors' representation of how Less is always More. Amazing.
Great movie. Great cast. Gary Oldman killing it as usual.
Jim Prideaux is probably Mark Strong's finest performance.
Arguably the best juxtaposition of a funky, soaring disco pop song and a high power rifle shot to the head, at least which I know of.
wow the best compliment i've ever heard
And the single tear to emphasize the scene
"La Mer" as "soaring disco pop song" is one hell of a juxtaposition on it's own.
@@karaloop9544 lol!
you made my day with this one ❤
Fantastic, emotional ending. Ricky Tarr waiting for Irina in the rain not knowing of her fate. Secrets until the very end.
Never noticed that - nice one. Makes it even more poignant
Yeah, that sitch is really sad the more I think about it
And Connie left alone, knowing that her beloved Circus was violated.
The best is Percy, walking past George - I'm guessing that he's been so painfully sacked that he's genuinely oblivious to Smiley being there.
RIP Le Carré
R.I.P Le Carré
Love Mark Strong. Has the best walk. Watch him in Rock n Rolla.
Always reminded me of Dimitar Berbativ for some reason. He's great in Kick Ass too.
Pe li cu lon! Debe de ser de las mas subvaloradas. Tremenda. El trabajo de edicion encapsulando la esencia del msg de la peli en la cancion es un desbole de genialidad. No tiene
desperdicio.🙌 ❤
it's easy to overlook in the movie, but, also taken from the books, the Circus had some truly amazingly adept people working in it: Jim Prideaux, who realised who the mole was before anyone else, so mentally trained that weeks of sleep deprivation and torture didnt break him, master marksman, Connie, who had an extraordinary memory and eye to detail, capable of noticing things anyone would miss, Bill, who managed to live as a double agent for decades under anybody's nose, Peter, the perfect right hand; silent, smart, fearless. and obviously George, whose greatest skill, the ability to follow and make sense of a moltitude of threads without losing sight of the objective. And, in the books, Jerry, De Salis, Tarr, even Lacon. They're all flawed but they all show to be extremely competent and skilled in the end
I saw what you did there…. Mole-titude - very good sir.
That was the point of the book. Le Carre was surrounded by mediocrity and incompetence in MI5 and MI6, leading a boring life, so he wrote about what he would have liked it to be like. It wasn't all the fault of the spies - I've recently read about Klaus Fuchs and how MI5 and 6, and the FBI, worked to bring him down, and you realise that a lot of the problems are caused by internal politics and the law itself. MI5 wanted not only to catch a spy but to prosecute him successfully. They made many mistakes, but in Britain (and the USA) they couldn't simply make one disappear.
Props to anyone who could follow this plot, LOL.
It helps if you have read the book
Masterpiece of a movie from a masterpiece of literature.... Shame we still haven't got Smileys People
Did you ever catch the miniseries? What did you think of that?
This is one of those rare movies that as soon as I have watched it to the end, I start watching it from the beginning one more time. I loved this movie from the beginning, and I don¨t understand why it's not higher in peoples appreciation.
It has one flaw: No Alec Guinness.
@@TedSeay I think Gary Oldman did a really good job channeling him though
One reason for this in my opinion is that it’s not an easy movie to follow for a casual viewer, there are a lot of things which aren’t given a vivid explanation but are nonetheless there for the viewer to see and hear as long as they are fully invested in it and paying attention. In that way it reminds me of certain elements of Tarantino movies, which rely on the viewer’s perception of events and dialogue. A friend of mine complained about tinker tailor to me saying it was very boring as it mainly consisted of men sitting at tables talking and arguing, which could be considered true because he didn’t get the gist of it at all. The really clever thing about the film is the subtleness of the dialogue and the little details contained in the scenes which can be easily missed if not paying proper attention. In that sense it’s in a bit of a niche as the majority of movies are aimed at people with short attention spans and low patience so they don’t get bored and switch off, while tinker tailor is more of a slow burner building up to a very intense finale, giving us hints all the way through. That’s why I think it’s a masterpiece
The more I watch Tinker Tailor, the more I've come to love Mark Strong s portrayal of a deeply hurt man who's been to hell and back, all because of the man he loved.
Jimmy Prid, that is.
Strong's performance is sublime, especially in the above scenes at the party, when he slowly realises that the man he loves is a traitor. It's brilliantly acted and shot.
I like that everything got so messed up cos everyone was banging each other , only in the UK would it go on for so long , we don't like airing our laundry
@@warrenmilford6848 i do not think he new anything about the traitor at the party ....party was held much earlier than the events that are to ensue..
@@sergejkarov9149 Actually I think he did know then, or at least was highly suspect of him. If you remember the scenes where Smiley interviews Bill Haydon in that holding cell at the end, Smiley mentions something about Jim Prideaux being aware, or suspecting Haydon. I can't remember the exact wording, but it is mentioned. Watch it again, as I will. :)
@@warrenmilford6848 he warned Bill before the Hungarian incident and George says “because he knew it was you all along”
I read Tinker, Tailor many years ago (a few times) I had the tv adaption with Alec Guinness on video tape and later on dvd and put off watching this movie because I thought the original couldn’t be matched. It was, a little more stylised but every bit as good. If only they’d make Smiley’s People now.
Exactly how I feel. I do believe Smiley's People is in the pipeline but who knows?
The Honourable Schoolboy first, please. In its own way that could easily make the best movie
What a perfect song for a perfect ending and I also think Gary Oldman gave one of his best performances here.
the ending never bored to see
That made me uplode it!
I've watched it many times . The intricacies are many and it's textures only reveal themselves as you get to know each of the characters better. As good as it gets. A true classic!
One of the great spy movies ever made done with typical British understatement. The cast is bloody amazing.
The best spy movie I've ever seen . Really brillant.
Have watched this movie +20 times. Fantastic.
So brilliant. Wraps the entire story over the arc of one song. Whoever did the editing in this film should have won an Oscar.
Agree, the Le Mar song makes it ruthless and sad!
Just an unbelievable choice. Watching it now you can’t imagine it any other way…
@@historex54tamiyaIts a perfect song for the period version of it and it’s something spies would probably listen to. A French love song sung by a Spanish singer. Very international and cosmopolitan
@jamo3976 watch the BBC series and you find out how it should have been done.
The ending and the movie misunderstands le carré's book. It is miscast and the sets are ridiculous.
you’re ridiculous.
Love this film. It's a grown up world I could happily inhabit.
The more I watch it, the more I see. Thomas Alfredson did a brilliant job, as did all the players; a huge collection of talent.
Great movie…i didn’t know that Julio was groovin’ like this back in the days….the band is killin’👌👌👌👌wish i was living back then,what a great decade..
Shoot why do you think he was so popular this man could sing his heart out in any language he knew.
... Yeah, the band is great. I realize it now, but I was there; my parents had the album. Very smooth. I wish Iglesias kept that jazzy sound.
What a wonderfully edited sequence. Tells a complete fucking story in the span of one song. I know we can talk about the performances and direction but the editing in this sequence is brilliantly paced and crafted. Great work from top to bottom
One of my favorite movies! Had to buy it and watch it periodically😊
I had to watch this film five times before i fully understood it - it's THAT good. In the context of the film, the ending is just stunning. Oh dear, i'm not usually an espionage kind of guy, but Prideaux was firing from below so yeah, the bullet would have gone up into Haydon's brain. RIP Bill Haydon.
And Control drinking himself to death.
thanks to this clip, watching it again now, #6. Oh my God, i never got it. Peter Guillam is homosexual. No wonder he has no interest in the lovely Belinda.
No, i did not get it all the fifth time, only 90 percent. George tried to save Karla, convince him to defect, when he was facing return to apparent certain death at the hands of the Soviets. Tragically, he was a diehard Communist, willing even to die for Communism. However, he survived.
@@Meandgenevieve - Yes, when Smiley told Guillam to 'clean up his loose ends', because it could get messy, so Guillams 'flat mate' had to leave...
So sad, so many facets !
@@BurntPlaydoh Wow, thanks. Will look into it.
I had seen bits of this movie over the years and decided it was time for a full viewing. After seeing it four times I am still moved by the ending. What a wonderful way to finally acknowledge the love of Prideaux and Haydon. That said, I am a Smiley man through and through.
Well said. That was well done, and mostly untouched in the BBC series, I think. That was why I was disappointed they turned Sherlock gay as well (not that he doesn't give good gay, of course). In the novel it's a woman he dumps unceremoniously. Maybe one day we can live in a world where a movie director doesn't need to twist a character's sexuality just to suit a narrow agenda, even when that agenda is light years ahead of the agenda it is dismantling.
small gestures, small means of expression... but what a great story, what a great characters, what a great emotions...
This movie is a masterpiece indeed.
Killer brass riff!
I love this movie. I’ve seen it countless times and i still haven’t found all the threads yet 😅
That’s part of why i love it so
I always tell people that TTSS isn't a spy movie, it's an espionage movie...and there's a big difference.
The timing!
The moment of gut wrenching regret for what hes about to do cut short by the shot that hits with the suddenness of reality crashing through your door is purely and simply grown up storytelling that no longer exists in popular culture
My favourite scene in film
Gary Oldman looks soo great in this movie btw he always handsome ❤😂
Great movie & great performances .
One of the greatest pairing of song and music to film narrative ever.
That final shot of smiley to the applause..
Excellent marksmanship with the rifle, getting the bullet through one of the wire squares on the fence.
Just an amazing movie! One of those films you can watch forever. The story, the acting, the edit, the colour, the cinematography - its just beautiful!
This is bloody fabulous
Just brilliant. I remember first seeing the film in a group which was vastly lost quite early on. I and another were completely entranced by it, watching it bloom into a true climax of pure thriller-laden espionage.
I’ll never forget that and feel lucky that I/we ‘got it’ first time. Though, I did rewatch it when released to firm things up.
Timelessly brilliant in my opinion.
There are so many subtleties to enjoy throughout this movie and in this clip. I just watched the 1979 series, and I don't think it compares. The casting for all the major roles in this film was outstanding.
The BBC series is much better for texture, detail and acting, but if you have to stuff it all into 2 hours and 12 minutes this was a fine way to do it.
Best end sequence I have ever seen.
Esta película está en el top 5 de mis favoritas. Grande, grande, grande... Sin fallos. No sobra ni falta nada. Un reparto espectacular para una historia perfectamente narrada. Genial.
Tambien para mi
I'm sad they didn't make a sequel to this movie.
This is fabulous. Best ever, thankyou
another four viewings and a year and i will have a complete understanding of the entire film.
A lot of great movies--even masterpieces--fail to land the plane at the very end. It's so hard to do. Drawing together story, character, themes, tone, past, and present like this is really something special. Hard pressed to think of a final sequence I like better.
For such a dark genre, this is surprisingly close to a happy ending.
An excellent movie...perfect in every way...and the end...fantastic...so well done with Le mer.
I watched this movie many times and still it nevers disappoints.
Simply amazing film. Filmmaking at it's very best...
Magnifici sia il libro che il film!
Brilliant book, excellent TV series and a film I keep going back to again and again.
Marvelous ending scene👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I think my favorite part of the ending is when Smiley comes home. His wife is back and for the first time in the entire movie, you see him falter for a moment and hold himself steady on the staircase rail. Just an incredible ending to an incredible film.
In a final where all lose their loves...he gets again the wife....until next flirt...
@@ivanozappulla1274 absolutely
The stagger bookending the one Smiley makes when he sees Anne and Haydon at the Circus Christmas party.
This is a very smart movie. I enjoy a franchise like the Bourne films but this is closer to the spy business.
This film is perfect.
Great ending to a great movie.
Never gets old…
The movie ending is considerably more upbeat (believe it or not) than the book's.
But damn, Oldman in the last shot is BOSS.
Phenomenal movie catchy ending song too...
Michael Buble's first screen role. Not many people know that.
Good old Britain when you could leave your house without taking the key with you. Everyone could be trusted (except one).
Bollocks. Rose tinted glasses.
Unless you’re a spy and have something non conspicuous in your door. Great film.
Waiting for Smiley's People to come out. That would be amazing.
ABSOLUTELY brilliant film, superbly portrayed by the best actors to fit the characters. 10/10 for me
why is it a great spy movie? the stakes are real and every one is a lonely shattered miserable person , exactly what a spy is
I think this movie/story encapsulates a place far beyond the ordinary or mundane, yet the emotions and relationships are as old as time itself. We witness loyalty, betrayal, secrecy, revenge, itegrity and/or the lack of it and the price each character pays for their chosen path. All brought together in this fine adaption of Le Carre's masterpiece portraying a rather seedy world. The casting was supurb and the sheer Britishness of it all makes for a glorious piece of cinema.
As much as i like alec guiness as smiley, i have to say i prefer oldman as smiley and this version they capture the decade perfectly reminds me of childhood, bloody good film never gets old, or tired and an exellent first class performance by all actors but what a bloody good actor oldman is, perfection in that role
The problem with Guniness was believability and suspension of disbelief. The idea he could have made it from Tatooine back to 1970s Earth and been regenerated as an old English spy just defies all plausibility.
It's a shame they never adapted the other 2 Smiley novels.
Every hard hearts love the men
The book ends with Smiley setting out to Immingham, i remember because that is where I once lived...
ce film est juste énorme!
Have you ever wondered who had it in for you ? That feeling someone had an advantage over you but just could not pinpoint the rat .It could be anyone A brother Sister Friend or well anyone you were in close contact with .This film gave me the feeling I was in that very position of mistrust in my life where everyone was a potential enemy and the oh la la French rendition of the sad but comforting song "La Mer" seem to make the fear and hurt bearable ,
I'm a big fan of Mark Strong, a real 'co blimey Londoner
Can’t hold a candle to the Ace Guinness version
Managed to record this movie onto a CD; great movie, keep re-watching it over and over; no cheap theatrics, just a great story with relatively unknowns but for John Hurt; and I think the best recording of La Mer ever by one of the greatest singers ever.
Relative unknowns?! It’s a loaded cast!
Tv series is the best production I’ve ever seen.
@@aaronkazi I was more worried he "managed to record this movie onto a CD". It sounds like he might have just discovered that electricity is now a thing.
it was only on a CD until it could be converted into Betamax at the mall @@vangroover1903
Epic ending scene👍🏼
Kingsman
Venom
Jim Gordon
Doctor Strange
Way to wrap up the ending, the best ever.
Best ever ending is Blackadder. But, yeah, you're not far off.
Brilliant as Gary Oldman Mark Strong et al are, the BBC TV series with Alec Guiness as Smiley has the time to do the complexity of the story justice. In the 1970s viewers were assumed to have the capacity to understand a complex drama. Now its Downturn Abbey & Bridgerton, all froth & no guiness.
The series was incredible and the sequal "Simley's people" too.
I was in prison when I read the book smh they did the ending justice just like I imagined it.
Smileys people please!!!!
Unfortunately the movie performed quite bad at the box office therefore a sequel is unlikely. I'd love to see all the Karla's trilogy but I think that It'll never happen.
Genijalan film... Glumci vrhunski, režija isto, sjedi 5😃
They thought I was a criminal. No, sir. I am not. However, it served me well! Kept me alive well enough. 🙏 ❤
I felt bad for the little boy at the end , the way he yelled at him 😔
Well, maybe, but he was actually doing the kid the greatest favour of his life. He didn't want the boy modelling himself on him. That's REAL compassion and humanity.
@@Dabhach1 I know, but with no explanation. It's like he made a good friend who saw the best in him and then suddenly he's told basically to f*** off
@@texastea5686 Yeah it sucks for Bill, but even though he doesn't know it he's ultimately better off in the long run. Prideaux is a lonely and broken individual, just like the rest of them are, and he's trying to spare Bill that fate.
welp, boarding school syndrome won't emerge by itself
Smiley, an out-of-the-family dude!
The way Jim looks at bill.... heartbreakingly beautiful....
Brilliance
I actually thought I'd never watch this film as after reading the books and watching the BBC adaptation (several times each) I reckoned nothing could better them. Although the movie isn't better than the books or TV version, it's certainly worthwhile watching with great acting/casting
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