{"id":30197,"date":"2023-02-16T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1785811"},"modified":"2023-02-16T09:39:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T08:39:57","slug":"sharper-director-on-how-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-helped-inspire-film","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/sharper-director-on-how-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-helped-inspire-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharper director on how Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy helped inspire film"},"content":{"rendered":"

Benjamin Caron speaks to RadioTimes.com about making a New York film as an Englishman. <\/p>

By Patrick Cremona\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 16 February 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Twisty new thriller film Sharper arrives on Apple TV+ this weekend, and director Benjamin Caron \u2013 whose previous credits include episodes of The Crown<\/a> and Andor<\/a> \u2013 has revealed one of the inspirations behind the new film: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.<\/p>\n

Speaking exclusively to RadioTimes.com<\/a>, Caron explained that he had initially felt apprehensive about making a very New York-specific movie as an Englishman, before he remembered what Swedish director Tomas Alfredson had done with London in the 2011 John le Carr\u00e9 adaptation<\/span>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s tricky, I was like, \u2018How can an English person go to America and make this movie?’\u201d he said. \u201cBut I sort of thought as an outsider, possibly that might offer a new perspective.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always remember when Tomas Alfredson came to London and made Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, I remember watching that movie and going, \u2018Wow, someone has shot London in a really interesting way.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThat outsider\u2019s perspective of London had given that film a really different perspective, and I thought that\u2019s what I could do with Sharper \u2013 not be a sort of postcard view of New York and kind of lean into the sort of neo-noirness of that, shoot it on film, get Clint (Mansell) to do the score, find some really interesting needle drops that were timeless.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Caron added that he was immediately taken with the script by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka \u2013 which he said he \u201cinhaled\u201d \u2013 and explained that it reminded him of many of his favourite movies from years gone by.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it was smart, I thought it was fast, I thought it was sexy, I thought it was character-driven and it felt original, which ticked all the boxes that I was looking for,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI embraced the idea of the movie being sort of non-linear, and it seemed to me a really American, very New York movie, which would allow me to explore some of the themes and some of the ideas of those character-driven thrillers that I loved going all the way back to The Sting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThinking about The Color of Money, The Thomas Crown Affair, Klute \u2013 those are films that have just stayed with me, and I hadn\u2019t felt like I\u2019d seen those for a long time. And this script that Alex and Brian had written felt like it had the same sort of DNA as that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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