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Post by millring on Aug 24, 2024 17:34:52 GMT -5
Anyone else watching it?
It's beautiful and compelling and the lead is a more believable Spade than Bogart, but it's so complicated, captioned, flashbacked, and history laden that I can't figure out what's going on. I really want to continue watching in hopes that by the end it will all come together. But I'm losing hope.
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Post by howard lee on Aug 24, 2024 17:48:11 GMT -5
We're going to try it this evening. Her Grace is upstate with friends, so the TV is ours... bwa-ha-haaaa. Besides, we are Clive Owen fans and also fond of locations in the south of France.
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Post by Hobson on Aug 24, 2024 18:25:51 GMT -5
We tried watching it in the past. I really wanted to like it, but couldn't figure out what the hell was going on.
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Post by millring on Aug 24, 2024 18:41:49 GMT -5
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Post by John B on Aug 24, 2024 19:45:12 GMT -5
I've only watched episode one. Still a little lost.
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Post by amanajoe on Aug 24, 2024 21:09:02 GMT -5
Sue and I watched it last year, stick with it, the confusion will clear a little bit.
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Post by howard lee on Aug 24, 2024 21:34:19 GMT -5
We just finished Episode 2 and are enthralled. There was a bit of jumping around in time in the first episode, but we figured out the plot line pretty quickly. The countryside is beautiful, the clothes and sets are great, and the script is quite Dashiell Hammett-esque, riddled with that ping-pong dialogue that was so popular in the 1940s cinema. Really enjoying it.
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Post by Dave Poor on Aug 24, 2024 23:47:02 GMT -5
We just watched episode 1. <SPOILER? Maybe?>
It's not clear yet how much San Francisco history has followed Spade to France. Teresa's mother is Brigid from The Maltese Falcon, right? Sam explains that he got her sent to prison, then sprung. I think we should watch The Maltese Falcon again. And read up on French politics around the Algerian War.
<EDIT> The local police chief is telling Spade why he's concerned about Philipe's return. The subtitle says "I am a goalist" which I suppose should have read "Gaullist". Did French nationalists blame DeGaulle for the "loss" of Algeria? </EDIT>
So far it's great. Clive Owen is the even older, more jaded, Sam Spade. His expat journey, learning French, marrying, is all background. I've had to pay close attention, but it's hanging together so far. The Wikipedia summary is helpful.
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Post by Dub on Aug 24, 2024 23:49:01 GMT -5
I put it on our list but it might be something we’d have to buy separately.
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Post by drlj on Aug 25, 2024 7:45:20 GMT -5
Never heard of it.
Sounds French to me.
Is the American version called Mr. Shovel?
I assume it’s on Prime or one of the twenty million other streaming services.
Life will have to stumble on without it, I fear.
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Post by howard lee on Aug 25, 2024 8:11:06 GMT -5
Never heard of it. Sounds French to me. Is the American version called Mr. Shovel? I assume it’s on Prime or one of the twenty million other streaming services. Life will have to stumble on without it, I fear.
Free on Netflix.
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Post by TKennedy on Aug 25, 2024 8:13:50 GMT -5
We’re going to watch it.
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Post by drlj on Aug 25, 2024 8:18:43 GMT -5
Never heard of it. Sounds French to me. Is the American version called Mr. Shovel? I assume it’s on Prime or one of the twenty million other streaming services. Life will have to stumble on without it, I fear. Free on Netflix.
Netflix isn’t free. The best you can say is available for no extra charge if you already pay for Netflix. |
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Post by howard lee on Aug 25, 2024 8:35:45 GMT -5
Netflix isn’t free. The best you can say is available for no extra charge if you already pay for Netflix.
OK. Fine.
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Post by drlj on Aug 25, 2024 8:51:28 GMT -5
Notice at no time does Sam mention Netflix.
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Post by millring on Aug 25, 2024 8:53:50 GMT -5
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Post by howard lee on Aug 25, 2024 9:39:25 GMT -5
Yes, the 1961 Citroën Ami 6. I had never seen one until we started watching this program yesterday. Oddball design, with covered rear wheel well, or whatever the technical term for that is, like the old bathtub Nash Rambler in my avatar here.
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Post by epaul on Aug 25, 2024 10:27:07 GMT -5
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Post by drlj on Aug 25, 2024 16:49:07 GMT -5
Netflix isn’t free. The best you can say is available for no extra charge if you already pay for Netflix. It is also available on Acorn, which is a network that features shows from United Kingdom,Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Lots of good stuff there. |
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Post by John B on Aug 25, 2024 17:06:47 GMT -5
Netflix isn’t free. The best you can say is available for no extra charge if you already pay for Netflix. It is also available on Acorn, which is a network that features shows from United Kingdom,Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Lots of good stuff there. Is that free? |
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