I saw Edge of Darkness many years ago on the BBC, so I’m interested to learn how the Hollywood version compares. The commenters on IMDB seem to like it, so it’s probably a good film, but how does it compare?
Anyone?
I haven’t seen it, but going by the reviews, and by how Hollywood screwed up Brideshead Revisited and Traffic (yes, I know I may be on my own on that one, but I thought the TV series was infinitely superior), I’m not holding my breath.
I thought Hollywood made a decent stab at State of Play.
Disclaimer; I have not seen the original, but I have seen the movie. After some research there are two big changes: 1) The movie has actually been reshot to add more action scenes where Mel Gibson beats people up. 2) The intricate plot of the series has been simplified so now there’s just one standard corporate slimeball who is responsible.
They kept the daughter.
Two things that I suspect aren’t in the remake is that Jedburgh was ultra cool, and the whole thing had a slightly mystical edge: something to do with Gaia. It ended with a shot of, I think, black orchids.
Yes: from Wiki
The reviews I’ve heard have all said basically that’s it’s not great but not bad either. It is impossible to get it all in the movie but they don’t seem to have totally destroyed the ideas in the original.
There’s a Mark Kermode review in the following link
While I guess it is subject to opinion, in the movie, Jegburgh is cool.
That’s good. Have they retained the mystical elements?
I’d only recently learned about the original, which sounded pretty trippy when I read about it on Wiki. I doubt all that much of that stuff made it into the Hollywood remake.
This thread has made me watch the original again. I did the first four hours last night, with the last two to come tonight. One of the Mrs Nine’s comments was that it hasn’t dated at all, in style or issues. The cars and telephones have, though. Great music from Eric Clapton and Michael Kamen.
There’s lots of great little touches, like Jedburgh’s love of golf and ballroom dancing and the archetypical Britishness of Harcourt and Pendleton: Oxbridge-then-on-to-the-secret-services-don’tchaknow-old-boy type of thing.
One bit shocked me a bit: when Craven kissed his dead daughter’s vibrator.
It is one of those very rare programmes though, where you sit there thinking, ‘Wow - this is good.’