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the day of the jackal

  • 14-07-2009 1:02am
    #1
    x in the city
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    just on rte, what a film

    1973....!


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  • #2
    dreamers75
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    x in the city wrote: »
    just on rte, what a film

    1973....!


    oddly dont have rte and i live in dublin.


  • #3
    bnt
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    Remarkable film. The part that grabbed me is the tone of detached professionalism, the relentless drive on the part of the Jackal to get the job done. Even the fling he has in France is ambiguous: spontaneous or tactical? The cops got lucky, and they knew it.

    It was good to see it again - kept me up far too late, but worth it. I still have no idea why Hollywood felt the need to remake it, and set it in America with Bruce Willis.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #4
    rednik
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    Great film with a great cast and atmosphere which the Willis remake completely lacked. I thought Michael Lonsdale was brilliant as the lead detective. Even the late great Cyril Cusack put in a good performance as the gunsmith.
    Hollywood have a nack of remaking the perfect film which is ridiculous and in this case should never have happened. One memory from the remake is Richard Gere's oirish accent. Everything about the original was so natural and realistic. I would love to know what Frederick Forsyth thought of the remake.


  • #5
    ronnie3585
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    Crap, I missed it. Damn you The Wire on BBC2!


  • #6
    GAAman
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    bnt wrote: »
    I still have no idea why Hollywood felt the need to remake it, and set it in America with Bruce Willis.

    For the same reason they do it with alot of other classic movies, they cant have any original ideas themselves so they "re-imagine"

    But yeah this film is a classic, matter of fact i dont have it on dvd off to play i go :D


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