Monday, March 28, 2016

Test run for 007 ?: “The Night Manager” takes revenge – n-tv.de NEWS


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 Monday, 28 March 2016

 
 
 


  From Anna Meinecke
 


 


 
 Two Britons with very different morality meet. One is Marvel’s Loki, Tom Hiddleston, the other Dr. House, Hugh Laurrie. In the series “The Night Manager” giving hero and villain.

 


 
 

“An exceptional opportunity,” Tom Hiddleston calls the role of the legendary agent in the world, James Bond. Yet the Briton has not the role, but thanks to its performance in the BBC series “The Night Manager” it should be the dream closer come a long way. He plays in the title, it suggests, the night porter of a hotel – reserved but charming, polite, yet confident, a bit mysterious, very British and insanely sexy. Sounds like 007, right?

“The Night Manager” provides his hero Jonathan Pine ago amidst the protests of the Arab Spring. Cairo, 2011, surrounded by demonstrators he ducks away, falling as shots – more curious than fearful. As a soldier, he has served in Iraq, he has seen worse. This is Pines commute. The hotel Nefereti he will equal care of the guests -. He thinks, but of course everything comes a little thicker than expected

From Zermatt to Mallorca

A seductive beauty shows Pine secret documents , a list of heavy artillery, enough to start a war or at least quell an uprising. A nasty family is here shops with an even fieseren types, the major British entrepreneur Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie). Pine will do the right thing, it does the wrong thing, and even the politically tinged charge Action ignited in images that make a feature film competition.

Also, there’s “The Night Manager” very Bond. Snowy wastes of Matterhorn, Bad-Guy Temple in Mallorca – the setting of the novel by John le Carré has one adapted for the television audience of 2016th The flashpoints are contemporary, from Colombian drug cartels are dubious militias from the Middle East. Intelligence Leonard Burr’s, now with name Angela (Olivia Colman).



David against Goliath

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So you need not fool yourself: “The Night Manager” is designed for commercial success. While other political thriller boast inscrutable multifaceted characters, in this case – again quite 007 – clear from the outset who is the hero and who’s the bad guy. The dialogues the talent of the actors are not just. It understood Hiddleston and especially Laurie However, in the best possible to help their stereotype created characters with slight overtones to the necessary complexity.

The supposed gooders Roper, whose vulgar dealing with power and money immediately cost him all sympathy, must be beaten by a youngster with personal revenge agenda. The game is known: It is David versus Goliath. Just because was told by him since the 12th century BC countless times, it has become no less exciting. It is the stuff of which are the major action hit. “The Night Manager” must count as one of them.

“The Night Manager” will start on March 28 at Amazon Prime.

novel “The Night “order of John le Carré at Amazon or download on iTunes

  Source: n-tv.de
 


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