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Dave Eggers recommended Lost In Translation (2003) in Movies (curated)

 
Lost In Translation (2003)
Lost In Translation (2003)
2003 | Comedy, Drama, Romance
7.1 (20 Ratings)
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"It [was] unlike almost anything else before it. I think so often movies try to do too much, especially when you try to adapt a big, sprawling novel into a film, and you try to compress hundreds of years or generations. It can work, certainly, if you’re Kurosawa or David Lean or somebody. But a lot of times, the best movies are not novels, they’re poems. That movie is just this beautiful tone poem. I don’t know how many pages of a script that is. It’s probably a very short script, but she used the medium so well. And when we saw that, we thought, “Wow.” We kept thinking about that movie, too, when we were writing, although we ended up writing something much more verbose."

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Tom Turner (388 KP) rated The Spy Who Came in from the Cold in Books

Apr 30, 2021  
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John Le Carre | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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I absolutely love this book. After reading the first two le carre novels, which were very much the author finding his feet, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold is definitely the man established and in control of his literary voice.

I will admit I struggled mid way through, and without knowing why it's all happening it you could find your mind wandering due to lack of action, - there a lot of chapters that are just two people, and often the same two people, talking. However once you get to the final third all of that makes sense and it becomes a masterpiece. I'm going to take a brief break from Le Carre, but be assured - I'm going to return!!