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“The same can’t be said for Gere, who was, admittedly, miscast in several ways.”
““The Honorary Consul” is available on Blu-ray as part of the “Directed by John Mackenzie” boxed set, now available from Imprint .”
“Caine, of course, is excellent as usual, bringing a combination of resignation and dignity to the well-intentioned loser that he plays.”
“Graham Greene disowned the movie, largely based on what he saw as Gere’s unsuitability for the part.”
“Mackenzie’s a somewhat underrated figure, a Scottish filmmaker who worked with Ken Loach as an assistant director before embarking on his own career making similar works of social realism for British film and television.”
“physical media release beyond the initial VHS pressing, and even in Greene and director John Mackenzie ‘s native United Kingdom it didn’t come out until 2019.”
“This is what made him interesting, and it’s what made him right for Plarr in spite of his struggles with the accent.”
“Interestingly, the actor Mackenzie was initially concerned about was Michael Caine, who he thought of as too classy to play the drunken Fortnum.”
“‘The Honorary Consul’ ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection Caine’s performance was widely praised even by critics who didn’t care for the movie, like Roger Ebert.”
“As is typical of Greene’s work, it’s a tale of thorny moral issues, following the love triangle between an honorary British consul in Argentina, his ex-prostitute wife, and a brooding doctor, and examining the repercussions of that triangle when the consul is mistakenly kidnapped by a revolutionary who thinks the consul is the American ambassador.”
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“The Blu-ray contains interviews with several key crew members who detail the film’s history and its problems, and there’s a terrific audio commentary by writer Matthew Asprey Gear, who delves into not only the making of “The Honorary Consul” but the aborted attempts at adaptation that preceded it.”
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“Even Gere’s most overtly romantic lead role in “An Officer and a Gentleman,” the movie that solidified his status as a megastar, is often thuggish and unpleasant — Gere was never a movie star interested in begging for the audience’s approval.”
“He’s another of Gere’s chilly, unlikable characters, a trend that began with the ruthless opportunism of the fugitive farmhand in “Days of Heaven” and continued in “American Gigolo” and “Breathless.” The men in these films are so self-interested as to become almost sociopathic, though Julian Kay in “Gigolo” does have a last-minute moment of redemption (motivated less by anything in the actual plot than by Paul Schrader’s desire to remake “Pickpocket”).”
““The Long Good Friday” is in the Imprint box along with two films Mackenzie made after “The Honorary Consul,” the Cold War thriller “The Fourth Protocol” and the cheeky JFK conspiracy flick “Ruby.” All four movies exhibit Mackenzie’s knack for trenchant social and political commentary slightly heightened by his elegance as a dramatist and visceral genre filmmaker, and all are accompanied by illuminating supplements.”
“He’s best known today for his 1981 feature “The Long Good Friday,” a thriller about a scrappy criminal (Bob Hoskins in his first great film role) having the worst day of his life.”
“When Welles’ option lapsed in 1978, producer Norma Heyman (mother of future “Harry Potter” and “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood” producer David Heyman) snapped up the rights and hired playwright Christopher Hampton to pen a new screenplay.”
“Hampton’s script for “The Honorary Consul” skillfully distills the complexities of Greene’s novel into an efficient, beautifully paced drama that expertly juggles the criss-crossing characters and their shifting allegiances.”
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