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Fuente: Metadiplomat: The Real-Life Story of Bridge of Spies Hero James B. DonovanTom Hanks, playing Donovan, is asked to defend an accused Soviet spy. “I’m an insurance lawyer,” he says, and it’s true. But it’s a vast understatement.
What the film doesn’t make clear is that Donovan was a Navy commander, schooled in spies and spycraft during World War II. He was intimately, selflessly, sometimes secretly involved with what Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once called the “passion and action of his times.” A kind of “real-life combination of James Bond and Perry Mason” is how the Chicago Tribune onceput it.
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In 1943, after receiving a commission as an ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve, he was assigned to the newly created Office of Strategic Services (OSS)—America’s first intelligence agency. Within a year he rose to general counsel and, as the war neared an end in Europe, OSS head Maj. Gen. William “Wild Bill” Donovan (no relation) asked him to lead the spy agency’s war crimes division.
“The government’s advice to me was that while I should try to release all three Americans,” Donovan wrote, “my basic mission would be to exchange Abel for Powers.”
Con Nogales. Viva lo irreal si funciona. Aunque da gusto leerte, Fogg.
Y luego otro asunto que no me termina de convencer, y es la facilidad con que se mueve por Berlín, en un momento en el que la cosa debía estar bastante peliaguda. Nunca hay una sensación de peligro o tensión mientras anda por unas calles casi en guerra; despachos, embajadas, oficinas, comisarías, etc. Echo un poco más en falta un poco de kafkianismo coeniano como he dicho.
A mí no me genera empatía esa foto que pones y sería otra película.
y por que ha de ser todo COMO UNO PIENSA QUE DEBIO SER? Esto es cine, puntos de vista, tonos...
a Valenti tambien le ha encantado:
El cine según TFV: Hombre firme: “EL PUENTE DE LOS ESPÍAS”, de STEVEN SPIELBERG
Pues es uno de los ídolos de Elliott.