Comments on: Spies Are Cool

By: checker

checker — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 05:07:35 +0000

Hah, the picture alone is totally worth it!

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 04:26:14 +0000

This guy should totally do your music!
http://tylerwalker.bandcamp.com/

By: checker

checker — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:24:22 +0000

Wow, that definitely sounds cool and relevant, I’ll check it out, thanks!

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiJ6oghRqKY whoa.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 06:30:22 +0000

you might also want to check out “The 10th Victim”. It’s a 60s Italian film about an international bloodsport pitching “Hunters” against “Victims” with the aim being to survive 10 such matchups. The twist being that while the Hunters know all there is to know about the Victims, the Victims do not know who their hunter is, and face 30 years in prison if they mistakenly kill someone who was not their hunter. Very cool Italian 60s spy aesthetic as well.

By: TomTom

TomTom — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:35:14 +0000

While not the traditional spies, I’m thinking of the cast of Ocean’s Eleven (12,13). In particular Bernie Mac and George Clooney come to mind, but the whole cast was great. The whole time it’s those little things like putting a coin on a winning machine, or a quick switch when no one is looking that are what the game is about.

By: MaxMoss

MaxMoss — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:38:42 +0000

Outstanding!

Also, In honor of Robert Culp, who passed away yesterday and was a true TV pioneer in so many ways, to include breaking the racism barsier in the US.

Well done!

By: Moneyless

Moneyless — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:17:30 +0000

> There’s also this new show on FX show Archer that looks relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9JdGJh_V6s Apparently one of > the episodes is about a party at a consulate with an assassin!

Yes!

Although much more recent, Sterling Archer from FX’s Archer would be a good one.

http://z.about.com/d/animatedtv/1/0/f/0/1/Archer_04.jpg

Even though it’s a cartoon (although adult oriented, but hilarious) I think watching Archer might give you some inspiration as well, as it’s set in the same era you’re thinking (late 1960s, since they’re kinda parodying James Bond), and the show portrays many different archetypes of the spy world pretty well. :)

By: Jehan

Jehan — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:40:20 +0000

Jason Bourne is awesome, esp. in the Ludlum novels. Matt Damon played him pretty well too.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:56:50 +0000

Sydney Bristow on ‘Alias’ was pretty cool

Cate Archer from the ‘No One Lives Forever’ games was cool

Cary Grant was also a spy for the US, I think.

Chuck Bartowski is a little less cool.

The 39 Steps was a good book+movie, but its protagonist wasn’t that super cool, either.

At least in the movies, Jason Bourne is more of an Assassin than a spy, though they portray him as having ~some good tradecraft. In the 1st book +1/2, he was pretty smart. Bob made him a total screwup after that, though.

By: Dan Lawrence

Dan Lawrence — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:23:14 +0000

You might enjoy Man in a Suitcase, a british tv series fromt he 60′s about a CIA agent forced to work for british intelligence:

Review:
http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/manin.htm

Amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Suitcase-Richard-Bradford/dp/B000A2W8UI

The Saint, by the same guys is also worth a look. Probably the role that made Roger Moore the obvious choice for Bond:

http://www.mgoodliffe.co.uk/images/saint7.jpg

Also, Danger Man is great. The spy tv show that Patrick McGoohan was in before The Prisoner:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053496/