Yeah, but his nephew’s a bellend

You absolutely get the sense of a man who has done these exact motions a thousand times before

I would have cut an overlong section at the end around the parades but otherwise a top class film. Suspense maintained brilliantly and a hard hitting ending

Читай книгу, намного интереснее.

Cause It is about committing a crime how it is in real life. Not in Hollywood.

And the soundtrack is spot on. (There basically isn’t one).

Props folk even balanced the rifle!

@@alastairbeaumont9578 The piano rips are scary. I figured out how they did that.

Gnarly looking round. NOT!!

All the great movie scenes contain melons.

Imagination is the greatest effect.

@@Adrian-jk4kx Absolutely. These days, sadly, it's rarely utilized.

It is anticipation that makes for story telling. The frantic action sets only work when they take a movie to a resolution of some kind.

Talented Mr. Ripley.

The scariest movie villain ever…

I watch this more than two decades ago, at the time I was to immature of taste to appreciated its pacing but I did like the movie quite a bit. Many years later I watched the remake of this film, and found it to be quite garish.

Yes. There are no big chases or wild shootouts along the way. This assassin is more cunning and subtle than that - hide the gun inside the car so nothing to find in the bags, car IDed, no carjacking just a some stolen plates and paint job (What planning this guy shows), need a safe place, chat up a duchess (I think), need another, find a male friend this time right in the enemy's camp. And finally, switch again to completely unknown persona of an old crippled soldier. But always, the police detective is on your tail....such tension between the two unseen foes.

With bombs? But The bank robberies?

From an age where movies were made to feel like a good book: an evening before the tele with a cup of strong tea and a nice sponge cake, sitting on the couch wrapped in warm blankets long after the kids have gone to bed.

@@TheAngelOfDeath01 Well said.

Couldn't agree more.

I must agree.. so far I have refused to watch the remake. 👍

@@kennethrouse7942 I am seeing a video of an interview with Edward Fox.

I did like it when the forger got it coming.

I preferred him as the gangster in Performance and the dissolute property owner in The Servant. But he's great in everything.

it is my favorite book and film

It was truly meticulously researched. The British passport loophole was in fact a real loophole which Forsyth learned about when researching credible ways in which the Jackal might obtain a false identity that would be good enough for international travel. He even tried to warn the authorities before publishing but they would not listen. It became a subject of controversy after the book became a best seller and the loophole was finally closed... in 2007.

How does this not have more likes

@@archerarcher8181 Because Wilson was a soccer ball, not a melon!

@@michaelkelly3221 Just shows how good an actor Wilson is.

@@michaelkelly3221 excuse me Wilson is a method actor

Wilson was also the “man-“ I mean “ball in rubber suit” as the alien in Dark Star 1974.

Well, the real Jackal wasn't a white man, for starters

@@adamschaeffer4057 who tf cares

@@northpaul3276 I find it ironic you spent as much time as you did posting that comment.

@@adamschaeffer4057 and i don't find it ironic

@@northpaul3276 Maybe because... you're a bromidic, platitudinal wanker!

The rifle is feasible, not fantastic, so the whole idea works beautifully.

@@philoshaughnessy906 Its just a rimfire rifle without a stock.

Looks a lot like a Welrod used by the SOE in occupied France during WW2.

@@TheBrakpan It's a vintage .25 Long Stevens R.F. (movie prop), using the basic components of a single-shot bolt action (without the bolt handle), either an Eatonia or a Cooey Model Canuck was used. The .25 Long Stevens Rim Fire is an obsolete chambering and practically untraceable since 1945, when the last batch of this ammo was manufactured and sold to the public, never to be seen again in quantity or quality.

If he didn't have dry fired it it would've been even more classy. ;°)

Or else they'd keep it but 'jazz it up' and have Bruce Willis use Jack Black as target practice.

The question always remained for me did he kill the gunsmith? Or did he spare him? In the book he doesn't kill him but I think in the movie it implies that he does

@@TheBlaert in the book there is a thorough discussion of the precautions the gunsmith has made to protect himself from this obvious threat. Details of the purchaser lodged with a 3rd party which would be released after a certain date etc

He does kill the guy who provides the false passports and other items to build his disguise, this was after he indicated he would expose the gunman and demands more money for his silence.

@@TheBlaert Because I read the book first, then saw the movie, it never even occurred to me he'd kill the gunsmith in the movie. I just took it for granted: two professionals respecting each other.

I can see a parody being made in re. to OCD or is it CDO?

@user-ek2ng7qb6c yes.... great locations too

Surely you are like me and want the Jackal to succeed?

@@cephalotus59 Absolutely. I was routing for him all the way until he killed the 2 women (the baroness and the old lady at the end of the movie). But still I wanted him to miss hitting President DeGaulle, and then somehow for him to escape. But I also wanted the police inspector to succeed as he was so resourceful, intelligent, competent and professional. I have watched and analyzed this movie since it came out first in 1973 (when I was in my early teens) at least 15 times as I enjoyed the locales and just how stylish and believable it was that it could have actually happened. Jackal was so thorough, methodical and detail oriented. It really was a Battle between two extremely professional and smart men.

@@cephalotus59 Everytime I watch the movie I think the Jackal will get him this time.

@@ericbond5276 I think you meant to say "I HOPE the Jackal will get him this time" , 'cause I do ;-)

@@cephalotus59 I'll give you a thumbs up but I don't want to offend anyone. Actually, there was an assassination attempt on de Gaulle.

I read Forsyth obtained his knowledge when he was reporting on Biafra

Not sure if true . But i was told that at the time of the books release people copied the Jackals method of second passport attainment , and were still able to get away with it . ( Don't bother trying now).

😅😅😅

And jfk hit😢

@JstBB the book is usually a better experience as it unfolds....but it takes real skill to capture it in a movie...in say 90 mins?

That was the genius of the book the film was based on.

@@kevbrown2532The publisher said that the ‘hero’ is the baddie. We never know his name - even at the end. We also know that De Gaul wasn’t killed. That said, he couldn’t put the manuscript down until he finished it! Brilliant book and film.

You've hit the nail on the head!

Exactly

I saw a directors cut once where the gunsmith says some part was a little more expensive and turns his back on Fox who says, "oh, how much" and makes as if to karate chop his neck and kill him, and the gunsmith says "oh, twenty dollars" and Fox decides he's for real and decides not to kill him.

There is a photo floating around on the internet of a Canadian sniper using a Pattern 14 with a Warner-Swasey scope in Italy in 1943. You’d wonder if it was Edward Fox.

Seeing jack black get destroyed was the most satisfying moment in the whole movie.

It must go down as the worst remake in history. Turning a classic into ... well to be perfectly honest , I struggle to find words to describe the garbage that presented as the modern day remake of DOJ. Willis was crap... Die hard is a great movie, but horses for courses... DOJ is way above his acting ability.

@@Wimpymind I AGREE 100%

@@alanjball5702 I disagree. The Flight of the Phoenix was the worst remake, Day of the jackle was just 2nd

@@alanjball5702 You mean not counting the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still?

But he kills the gunsmith anyway, right?

@@andrewgreenberg5068…no not the gunsmith. The forger got it!

@@andrewgreenberg5068 He'd never work again, the gunsmith wasn't a fool, and was recommended from reliable underworld sources. Kill a protected asset, and you have to spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder.

The Jackal does appear to operate to some sort of code of honour; he kills the forger because he realises he’s too untrustworthy to be left alive but the gunsmith, for all that he has as much information on the Jackal, did a fine job and didn’t quibble the price so he gets to live.

@@andrewgreenberg5068No, gunsmith was a professional business man in their line of work. They seemed to know each other when they first meet in the movie, as if they’d done business previously. Also, the Jackal places the one explosive round in a piece of cloth, then later retrieves it from his pocket still wrapped in the same cloth when he tests it after zeroing the rifle. Forger tried to extort more $ when the Jackal picked up his fake IDs after already agreeing to give him all the prints and negatives at their first meeting. Forger also asked some prying questions about it being some kind of “big job.” Jackal knew the forger was not a true pro like the gunsmith, who only asked relevant questions to the design of the weapon. “Over what range will you fire? Will the gentleman be moving or still? Head or chest shot?” Only technical details he needed to build the weapon for. In the lousy remake, they made the forger the pro and the gunmaker the flake. Jack Black does not belong in a thriller based on a Forsyth novel. Terrible movie all the way. The original is a classic.

Two absolute pros in quiet admiration. Contrast the Gunsmith with the Forger in terms of bravado and professionalism - wow. Small wonder one was paid and the other "send packing".

They casted actors wrong. Gere should be Jackal

Absolutely. The original version was based on facts. The OAS did make an attempt on De Gaulle. It took many years for the FFL to redeem themselves for their mutiny and attempt at a violent coup.

No need to apologize to Bruce. He's only been in 1 great movie.

The “remake” was terrible on multiple levels. A total waste ...

@@MR.B00_ Bruce is the one who apologize!

The Danish identity is that of a pastor, not a schoolteacher, and his penultimate identity, that of an American student called Marty, is not in the film at all. He also disappears in Paris by going to a gay bar rather than a Turkish bath.

100 per cent correct

The answer to why they remake great films is because mainstream cinema, mostly in Hollywood, is bereft good, original ideas. The hacks' in charge sole motivation is greed. Since most American movie goers are too stupid to notice or care, the studios get away with producing repetitive, moronic garbage. On a rare occasions, an original, creative and interesting idea slips through and we get a good film.

@@frankmiller95 Good points very well made!

I agree, too much lousy loud music in film today, especially Hollywood stuff.

As you say the film is the star. Edward Fox was an experienced actor but a relative unknown especially to international audiences. This was deliberate because Zinnemann wanted an actor to reflect the character ie. anonymous! Robert Redford was also considered but Zinnemann was adamant that it had to be a less well known actor. The other great casting was the recently departed Michael Lonsdale who played the detective, Lebel. He came across exactly as Forsythe had written in the book. I had the great privilege of also meeting two or three years ago, the excellent actor Ronald Pickup who played the forger.

Michel Lonsdale as the detective was perfect too.

Why did he have to kill her.

@@plasticbucket She figured him for a criminal. Also, he's a psychopath.

More than that, a compliment from a professional like him!

A true craftsman. He knows he's good but don't mind a compliment every now and then.

It's a "European" thing. All subtly and no flash.

I'd make out my will and go to confession.

I'd rather not..lol

@@jec1ny I'd buy a plane ticket or hide under the bed and say "Bring it on".

It wouldn't be that bad. You'd never know about it until you were suddenly dead.

Call Claude Lebel and his trusty assistant, Caron!

Good point. It's also true that the character would be saddled with a female side kick who naturally knew more about guns than he did since she had served covertly with the SAS and/or MI6. Modern stuff is unwatchable propaganda

That’s Cyril Cusack , a legendary Irish actor now deceased and whose actress daughter ( starring in a prime time crime drama series only weeks ago ) is married to Jeremy Irons

The American has some ridiculous stuff in it but it does have the feel that you're talking about.

@@alanrogs3990 "The American" COULD have been a great movie if the stories theme was not so predictable, on top of the "American" not putting two and two together the THIRD time his cover was blown. !!

And it still is!

I think you meant "definitely." Unless you were recommending this with "defiance."

@@kengruz669 noted and addressed.

My favorite spy thriller. So much better than Robert Ludlum. Ive read every one of Forsythe's books including his autobiography. He has been rumored to have been more than just a journalist as he seem to have deep contacts in the SAS who gave him so much technical detail. I had read them in high school and two things stuck in my mind. I must have a Browning High Power pistol and a Remington 870 pump 12 gauge shotgun as they were issued to thr SAS and prominently desecibed in Forsythe's books. Years later I got my Browning and the 870. I'm 61 pushing 62 and still have both.

@@ms.annthrope415 😉👍👍

He did everything with precision and purpose; the library, working with the disguise hair tint, selecting clothes at the flea market....everything.

Thank God this was just boring

@@stinkyham9050 how old are you 19 ? Go and watch superman 3 this is a (world acclaimed) British suspense thriller !

@@mmm091000 I turned 42 last weekend. I appreciate many old movies but this scene is just boring.

@@stinkyham9050 happy birthday for last weekend, it’s a gripping scene ! The whole film is a masterpiece ! As quoted by World cinema critics (not me) the OAS really did exist. Oh well can’t please everyone 🤷‍♂️

@@mmm091000 Thank you. I do also like Superman.

Underrated?! Do you live in a cave??

did he kill the gun maker too ? i know we dont see it happen but i wounder why he asked for a bullet in nthe last moment of the scene.

@@sharpgage6512 He doesn't kill him in the book, and it's never proven in the film if he kills him or not. There are people who claim to have seen a deleted scene where he kills the gunsmith, but there never was such a scene. I personally think he does kill him in the movie with the bullet like you said, but it can't be proven either way

Kind of hope the gunsmith wasn't killed. A professional. Highly skilled, discrete, "honest" (in that he didn't try to extort extra money from the jackal). And that he was able to retire to some Caribbean isle.

@@sharpgage6512 The one bullet was for the test shot.

It's one of my absolute favourite movies and the following is a comment more than a criticism but when the Jackal has zeroed his rifle and gets out the explosive tipped round, he pulls back the bolt but the spent round is not ejected. It's not a semi automatic weapon so the shell should still be in the rifle. Also as I understand shooting, once a rifle is taken apart the zero is stuffed up so he should have to zero again before he attempts the shot on De Gaulle. A I incorrect? As I say just a comment and I know about suspension of disbelief and that it's not a documentary.

the scope should be secure enough to the barrel. It is made as Barrel and breech in one unit, I didn't see him with a removable barrel. The silencer goes on the end of barrel, it usually doesn't touch the bullet at all.

Wrong. The guy in the white shirt does just this at 2:45.

@@eddieafterburnerYeah, but only in the movies.