#a most wanted man

[cursemewithyourkiss]

Help this is so embarrassing. Girl that is exactly the point!!!!!!!

#i havent read this particular book btw. i just looked it up because of the post i just reblogged #a most wanted man #john le carré #fuck off me

[philhoffman]

2000 | 2002 | 2010 | 2014

#my rearview window shows me only the sky #philip seymour hoffman #psh #* #the party's over #love liza #jack goes boating #a most wanted man #(as nice as this is. worth noting that one of phil's best friends said he was the worst driver in the world LMAO)

[oldshrewsburyian]

Where do you recommend people start reading John le Carré? Seeing your posts made me want to try his books but there's a lot of them

I'm flattered. But also, I don't think there is one ideal starting place for Le Carré. My recommendations would depend on knowing what you like. Dark comedy? Romance? Mystery? Political thriller? I think all of these elements are present in his books, in varying combinations.

I will say, having no further information about you and your tastes, that I might recommend not starting with his magisterial and justly acclaimed Cold War sagas, but rather with one of the following novels that deals directly with issues very obviously present and pressing in our own historical moment:

The Constant Gardener (2001)

A Most Wanted Man (2008)

Our Kind of Traitor (2010)

#john le carré #spy novel #the constant gardener #a most wanted man #our kind of traitor #book recommendations

[aetherbound]

Daniel Brühl as Maximilian in A Most Wanted Man (dir. Anton Corbijn 2014)

#daniel brühl #daniel bruhl #danielbruhledit #dbrühledit #dbruhledit #a most wanted man #my gifs #sorry for the potato quality this is my first attempt at gifs #i wanted to try and make pretty gifs of the pretty man too :') #since he only had eight minutes of screentime i thought this was a good test run #also what dem hips do???

[illiana-mystery]

You're killing me, Tommy.

#i'm about to call you daddy #girl chill #stop it #but i can't help it #he looks so fine #he was giving all the looks in this movie #sexy older norman vibes #tommy brue #a most wanted man #my blue eyed short king #willem dafoe

[fcknlz]

A Most Wanted Man (2014)

#nina hoss #Rachel Mcadams #Irna frey #Annabel Richter #A Most Wanted Man #idk but so hot

[movie--posters]

#a most wanted man #philip seymour hoffman #rachel mcadams #willem dafoe #robin wright #movie poster #movie posters #film #films #daniel brühl

[sie-ist-mine]

Nina Hoss arrives for the Berlin premiere of the film 'A Most Wanted Man' at Astor Film Lounge on September 4, 2014 in Berlin, Germany.

#nina hoss #A Most Wanted Man #A Most Wanted Man' at Astor Film Lounge #2014

[f1yogurt]

OK I AM BACK WITH MORE.

Minor characters today! (Sometimes very minor so you can flex your imagination 😉)

Martin Kreutz (Bourne Ultimatum), Lukas (2 Days in Paris), and Maximilian (A Most Wanted Man)

a tough one for me because I am definitely going to use my imagination for some of these characters!

character ask game

Maximilian (A Most Wanted Man): husband. From what I gathered about his character, Max seems like a sweetie and also fairly hinged, lol. He seems the most husband-like out of the three. His spy work would make a fun and interesting relationship between you two.

Martin (Bourne Ultimatum): one night stand. There's not exactly any specific reason I have for this other than that I don't know much about his character but he seems like he'd be a good one night stand??

Lukas (2 Days in Paris): best friend. Lukas seems like an amazing and chaotic best friend. Not only because he is The Oak Fairy, but also because he's always going to keep things interesting. However, you may have to bail him out of jail or take him to the hospital after he jumps out of a tree to "save the planet", though.

#maximilian (a most wanted man) #martin kreutz #lukas (2 days in paris) #2 days in paris #a most wanted man #ask game

[cursedgamerchild]

"internet historian's alt-right anyways" "great day to have never liked james somerton" "never even heard of illuminaughtii before this lol"

that's great buddy but don't go around thinking you're immune to this. if you're not looking for plagiarism, you likely won't notice it unless its egregiously obvious. hell, you've probably consumed plagiarized content without even realizing it. even hbomb pointed out that these people disguised what they presented pretty well as long as you didn't try and dig deeper. don't come away just thinking of this as a callout piece, take this as an important lesson about vetting your sources. if googling scripts in quotes was enough to expose the original, we should all start doing that shit!!

edit: it got a little too doomer-y a little too fast so one quick addition

this is hbomb's curated playlist of queer creators, many of whom were victims of plagiarism

this is producer kat on reddit calling for any more plagiarism discoveries and for queer content creators to be uplifted

please take some time to uplift these creators and recommend any you know! if you can help uncover more of the original creators whose work was lifted that would be great too :)

UPDATE- From Hbomb's twitter: "We're in the process of cataloguing everyone James Somerton plagiarised and finding their contact information. Which is quite a task, so to help us out: If you see this and happen to be one of the people Somerton stole from, please email us at [email protected]"

edit 2:

#hbomberguy #james somerton #illuminaughtii #internet historian #vice #ign etc have had issues with plaigarism before #this isnt just some youtuber scandal remember #even books can fall victim to this #kaz rowe's history vids exemplify this pretty well #i'd recommend the triboulet ass slapping myth one if you want a good breakdown #and somerton absolutely had problems with the way he discussed foreign media and anyone that wasnt a cis gay man #but considering most of his ideas werent his own that doesnt dismiss the original authors' work keep in mind

[ulrichgebert]

Zur Abwechslung Spione. Philip Seymour Hoffman leitet etwas mißmutig aber eigentlich erfolgreich eine ganz besonders geheime Abteilung für Terrorosmusbekämpfung in Hamburg , die versucht, tiefere Zusammenhänge aufzulösen anstatt pauschal alle muslimischen Einwanderer zu verdächtigen. Das machen die Mächtigen und die Amerikaner natürlich nicht mit, erzählt uns einmal mehr etwas unübersichtlich, aber aufregend John le Carré.

#A Most Wanted Man #Philip Seymour Hoffman #Rachel McAdams #Willem Dafoe #Robin Wright #Grigoriy Dobrygin #Nina Hoss #Daniel Brühl #Kostja Ullmann #Herbert Grönemeyer #Vicky Krieps #Film gesehen #Anton Corbijn #John le Carré

[tvscreencaps23]

#rachel mcadams #a most wanted man #movie

[philhoffman]

#one of the best scenes in the film I love seeing them together #günther has some great lines #a most wanted man #philip seymour hoffman #psh #* #willem dafoe #anton corbijn #love you like no other

[oldshrewsburyian]

As much as I'd love to talk Carré, I gotta admit I've tried and failed to get through even one of his novels. (I had to do research to even find out which it was, it was The Spy Who Came In From the Cold). It's really a tragedy, as someone who is SUPER into spy stories, political thrillers, and cold war history esp. re: the GDR, I was so ready to enjoy this book. But it just gave me nothing I enjoyed and I gave up halfway through. Also read excerpts of Tinker, Taylor for university and while that was a little better, I can't say I felt the need to get the full novel either...

Is there any novel of his that is markedly different in style or should I just give up on Le Carré if I didn't like that one?

I'm very glad that you've asked this question so that I can say: please, do not give up on Le Carré! One of the things I love about him is the variety of his novels, the precision of their individuality. Also, I'm trying and failing to imagine how reading excerpts of Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy would work, because while the prose is gorgeous, it doesn't strike me as, really, an excerptable novel. A word in defense of TSWCIFTC as well: when I first read it, in my early twenties, I rather forced myself through much of it it, not seeing, really, how it all added up: the deliberations, the compromises, the aspirations, the betrayals. And then I got to the end, started weeping, and immediately started rereading it to try to force the novel and the characters to some other conclusion.

Anyway! Other Le Carré recs: A Small Town in Germany, perhaps the most Austenian of his works, about the functioning and functionaries of Bonn, and postwar/Cold War anxieties in the Bundesrepublik.

For late Cold War anxieties, there's A Perfect Spy, about the (mis)education of a British spy, and the myths and vulnerabilities of the Old Firm. The Russia House is a particular favorite of mine, with the US, UK, and USSR anxiously figuring out what the parameters (and vulnerabilities) of glasnost are, and people figuring out what heroism is required to live with integrity in an era of inhumane states and... I just love it a lot.

You might also enjoy his more recent political thrillers, whether about neocolonialist exploitation (The Constant Gardener,) Islamic fundamentalism and western cynicism/hypocrisy (A Most Wanted Man,) or the feverish extremism of the Brexit/Trump era (Agent Running in the Field.)

#john le carré #espionage #spy novels #so delighted that my 'talk to me about le carré' ploy is paying off #the spy who came in from the cold #a small town in germany #a perfect spy #the russia house #the constant gardener #a most wanted man #agent running in the field #book recommendations

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Mike learns William Afton is a freak

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #mike schmidt #michael afton #ballora #toy chica #william afton #fnaf #fnaf movie #fnaf 2 #sister location #fnaf fanart #five nights at freddy's #what was William Afton cooking #dudes the most divorced man ever I swear #sorry to Michael Afton again for your trauma #that’s rough buddy #Tbh I just really wanted to draw Ballora and Toy Chica #ballora is actually one of my favourite animatronics ever #gotta draw these two again sometime

[illiana-mystery]

Goddamn, Tommy. 

#i see your eyes moving in that last gif #her eyes are up here #you little rascal #the wine glass grab was smooth though #real smooth #he turned into norman there for a second #lol #he's so hot #omg #tommy brue #a most wanted man #my blue eyed short king #willem dafoe