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Vendredi, septembre 10th, 2010 |
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This is one of the most satisfying “gay” films I’ve seen since “Beautiful Thing,” and one of the best mystery-married pairings since John and Sherlock, or should I say Nick and Nora. It’s the story of Donald Strachey, tough guy P.I. with a shady past and a sweet tooth for guy pal Sebastian Spence. It’s a good story, not a great one, with a sultry jazz score and topical references to such controversial subjects as celebrity outing and pedophiliac priests. What makes it work is the unconventional casting of Chad Allen (who is gay himself, but whose somewhat beat-up good looks don’t conform to cinematic stereotypes of gay–although one character dubs him “Nancy-boy Drew”) as Strachey, who just happens to be very happily married to Timothy (played by Sebastian Spence, who is apparently straight, and maybe that’s why his character overdoes the nelly a bit). Allen, as Strachey, is developing very nicely as an actor, and he’s more interesting looking now than he ever was as a child. In “Third Man Out,” he gets solid support from QAF’s Jack Wetherall and Sean Young. Apparently, this is the first in a series, based on the novels by Richard Stevenson and set, contrarily, in Albany, rather than in New York City or San Francisco. Hopefully, it will prove popular enough with its intended audience that other books in the series will also be filmed. Apart from the rather pedestrian direction (by Ron Oliver) and a couple of too obvious twists in the plot, “Third Man” is entertaining throughout.
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Having read the original novel “Third Man Out,” I have to agree that the screenplay for the movie version was reasonably well adapted. Since I wasn’t a huge fan of the book, “reasonably well adapted” to me means that 90% of the book was changed. The movie is loaded with gritty sex and violence that the novel was just missing. Occupations were changed (in the case of one character, from a meteorologist to a singing, puppet-wielding, male Shari Lewis wannabe), motives were changed, personalities were beefed up or changed, scenes were added, a distasteful, unnecessary, and preachy subplot was completely deleted, and the story was transplanted from an obviously early 1990’s setting to a vaguely 30’s-era seeming present day. None of these are complaints, mind you; everything has been improved. Dramatically.
Unfortunately, whoever adapted the screenplay neglected to change the atrociously bad ending. It negates scenes which took place earlier in the movie, tries to make a point and fails, and is altogether best left unviewed–stop your DVD player about fifteen minutes before the end if you want a satisfactory viewing experience. Without spoiling anything, the twist itself was fine–clever, actually–but various characters’ reactions to it were so untrue to life as to be almost offensive. When a character in a movie makes a grand speech at the end that causes other characters to hang their heads in shame, you at least expect the speech to make an ounce of sense and to have any persuasive power whatsoever. Instead, my reaction (to both the book and the movie) was a simple, “Uh huh. Right.” Actually, the movie’s version of the ending was even worse than the book’s, for various reasons.
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That, however, is the only reason for a 4-star instead of a 5-star review, and even I wouldn’t expect anyone to completely change (or leave out) the ending when adapting a book into a screenplay. The acting is stellar from all of the principals (particularly Chad Allen) and most of the peripherals (I enjoyed the young hotel desk clerk especially), the direction is top-notch and the production values are impressive. I am greatly looking forward to the next Strachey movie.
The only extra on the DVD is a featurette which is actually well worth viewing, particularly for the relevant comments of Chad Allen, who makes more sense than I’ve ever heard a Hollywood actor make in my life.
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