Spy Game

up there for me in performance of a jacket in a film.

You know? That one, the sport coat Robert Redford wears in Spy Game.

You know, he's putting on that leather jacket, looking in the mirror, being like, they don't fucking know you're Serpico.

Go on with the question.

Del Toro expertly combines Gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish melange that, like his later Pan's Labyrinth, reminds us the scariest monsters are often the human ones.

The Devil's Backbone opened on November 23rd, 2001 against Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Monsters, Inc., Spy Game, Black Knight, and Shallow Hal.

Uh, it would go on to make $6.5 million on a $4.5 million budget.

It's got a 78 score on Metacritic from critics, a 7.5 from audiences, and a 3.8 average on Letterboxd.

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in the, yeah, in the office in, in episode six, in the FBI offices, we, we are looking at, um, Spy Game.

We looked at Spy Game.

Oh, cool.

And then, and then seven we're in these oil, in, in the refinery and that was all like Tony Scott's like, uh, you know, Man on Fire with the long lenses and, um-

Now, there's a key point in Bridge of Spies when CIA operative says to the Powers and the other pilots, "We are in an inf- a war of information." And that is, of course, what these pilots are, uh, recruited to do, to, you know, gather information, which, yeah, is if we wanna be, i- i- is in a very significant part of espionage.

Now thinking about the type of the non-action type of, um, spy film, you know, whether it's something like Spy Game or The Spy Who Came in From the Cold or The Ipcress File in that respect, and then m- quite a few entries within the nostalgic espionage genre.

And quite often those that are set, th- that feature the German Democratic Republic.

Thinking about a, a couple that I looked at, discussed recently were The Man on the Other Side, which is an interesting German and Singapore co-production.

It's like...

So sometimes the, the people who hire agents Can't trust the information that they deliver 'cause they think, "What if this guy has been turned?" or whatever.

You know what I mean? So there is something totally self-defeating [laughs] about the spy game.

I mean, also that at, at a certain point spies just spy on each other to check whether one of them has been turned.

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Never heard of it.

It's funny, actually.

I think it was from, I can't remember what it was now.

It was like Spy Game or something that we re-scored a scene of his and then he did critiques.

And at that time, he was looking for an extra set of hands at his studio because he used to have this big operation.

And then he took a sabbatical, came back, wanted to do something a lot smaller.

Okay.

First one, 2001's Spy Game.

I do like Spy Game.

That is Redford.

One through five, is that right? Yes.