Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy's queer additions and subtractions

[cimorene]

... and the changes made to the gay (/bisexual) content when converting book to movie, in both directions:

...oh. Yes, I see. Well, I think it was well meant and the change to Guillam was all to the good, but... if they thought that a change from text into subtext wouldn't make any real difference to the meat of the story, I don't think I agree.

Comments

[aurumcalendula]

Yeah. Like, there doesn't need to be a conservation of queerness or something.

(I'm still ??? about the CIA reviewer who apparently thought that the movie made book subtext into text - like did he read a different version of the book than I did?)

Do you mind minor, non-plot-related spoilers for Smiley's People?

[cimorene]

Nope!

[aurumcalendula]

In Smiley’s People we find out that Connie is queer and meet her girlfriend Hilary.

[cimorene]

Oh, that makes a lot of sense. I remember having the ghost of a thought in her scene in Tinker Tailor.