![]() ![]() Instead of relying on traditional methods for creating the suspense in spy movies, this one uses the energy generated between the two very different characters, as the all-American Boyce gradually begins to understand that his partner is out of control. There is even a quiet, understated quote to link Ratso with the Penn character: A moment in a parking garage when Penn defies a car to pull in front of him, and we're reminded of Ratso crossing a Manhattan street and hurling the line "I'm walking here!" at a taxi that dares to cut him off. #FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN MOVIE#The movie was directed by John Schlesinger, an Englishman whose understanding of American characters was most unforgettably demonstrated in " Midnight Cowboy," and I was reminded of Joe Buck and Ratso Rizzo from that movie as I watched this one. "The Falcon and the Snowman" never steps wrong, but it is best when it deals with the relationship between the two young American spies. The only thing Penn seems really serious about is the money. The Russians, don't necessarily like that any better than the Americans would indeed, even though the Russians are happy to have the secrets that are for sale, there is the definite sense in some scenes that the key Russian contact agent, played by David Suchet, is almost offended by the sloppy way Penn deals in espionage. These two young men have one basic problem. Lee takes the documents south and launches them both on an adventure that is a lark at first, and then a challenge, and finally just a very, very bad dream. One day, in a deceptively casual conversation by the side of a backyard swimming pool, the two friends decide to go into partnership to sell the information to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. Lee has some contacts in Mexico, where he buys drugs. He doesn't want to be a Russian spy, you understand, just to bring this injustice to light. ![]() For example, giving the messages to the Russians. He is deeply offended to learn that his government would be interfering in the affairs of another state, and the more he thinks about it, the more he wants to do something. Boyce, reading the messages he is paid to receive and forward, learns that the CIA is engaged in dirty tricks designed to influence elections in Australia. By the time we meet them, Boyce is earnest and clean-cut just the kind of young man the CIA might be looking for (it doesn't hurt that his father is a former FBI man).Īnd Lee, with a mustache that makes him look like a failed creep, is a jumpy, paranoid drug dealer who is one step ahead of the law. Years ago, they were altar boys together, but in recent times their paths have diverged while Boyce was studying for the priesthood, Lee was setting himself up as a drug dealer. Sean Penn is his best friend, Daulton Lee. The movie stars Timothy Hutton as Christopher Boyce, a seminarian who has a crisis of conscience, drops out of school and ends up working almost by accident for a message-routing center of the CIA. ![]()
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