{"id":16382,"date":"2012-06-22T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=16382"},"modified":"2012-06-12T11:48:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T16:48:32","slug":"tinker-tailor-soldier-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you cared to, you could do\u00a0a total immersion\u00a0TTSS \u00a0(Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy<\/em>) experience using library materials.<\/p>\n

Prompted by the recent movie<\/a><\/strong><\/em> starring Gary Oldman as George Smiley, I went back to the BBC version<\/a><\/strong><\/em> on DVD, in which Alec Guinness plays the recently retired spy. At the same time, I listened to the BBC radio play\u00a0as an\u00a0audiobook<\/a>. <\/strong><\/em>Like the funhouse mirror world of espionage, each iteration was faithful to the original source material of the book<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0in some aspects, and each one\u00a0 edited parts of the narrative, as well as\u00a0completely changing essential\u00a0 plot points.<\/p>\n

For example, the catalyst for the investigation of a mole in the 1980 miniseries is a\u00a0night time\u00a0chase in the dark woods, while the 2011 movie accomplishes the same end with a shootout in an outdoor cafe.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0TV \u00a0version is more thorough and straightforward in its storytelling, while the movie, is, of course, abridged and cinematic.\u00a0Because it is more\u00a0elliptical, it is helpful to have read or listened to a more unedited version.<\/p>\n

I won’t spoil the ending; suffice it to say, the recent movie rivals The Godfather<\/a><\/strong><\/em> in it’s elegiac yet violent ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you cared to, you could do\u00a0a total immersion\u00a0TTSS \u00a0(Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) experience using library materials. Prompted by the recent movie starring Gary Oldman as George Smiley, I went back to the BBC version on DVD, in which Alec Guinness plays the recently retired spy. At the same time,[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[361,10,12],"tags":[1331,2005,210],"class_list":["post-16382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-books","category-dvds","tag-cold-war","tag-espionage","tag-spies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-4ge","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16382"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16398,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16382\/revisions\/16398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}