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For all you fans of the '72 movie "Sleuth" out there, I watched the Kenneth Branaugh remake last night and um...yeah... I will say this, I love Michael Caine, and seeing play Wyck this time was kind of awesome.
You should also know that in this adaptation they made the gay a lot more obvious. And by obvious I mean they just made it gay. Which was entertaining...but also strange. They stripped away all the subtlety and layers and just...made it obvious. So while you get Jude Law acting sexy rent boy cocktease, which was kind of awesome, you also totally lose the point of the original--that these are two really fucked bastards who like playing their little games together and the games *are* sex to them (better than sex even).
It was very weird.
You should also know that in this adaptation they made the gay a lot more obvious. And by obvious I mean they just made it gay. Which was entertaining...but also strange. They stripped away all the subtlety and layers and just...made it obvious. So while you get Jude Law acting sexy rent boy cocktease, which was kind of awesome, you also totally lose the point of the original--that these are two really fucked bastards who like playing their little games together and the games *are* sex to them (better than sex even).
It was very weird.
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