Tribute To a Bad Man (THE DAY OF THE JACKAL Fan Video)

Tribute to one of my favorite films, THE DAY OF THE JACKAL (1973), with Edward Fox and Michel Lonsdale, directed by Fred Zinnemann.

The music I used is a piece called "The Real Story" from the OCEAN'S 12 soundtrack by David Holmes. Note: The car skidding sound effects are not from the film - they are in the music.

The movie received a lot of media attention at the time. Two of my favorite examples:

COSMOPOLITAN (UK), Aug 1972:

Come in, Number 007, your time is up. I'm sorry James, you've come to the end of the road. Just turn in the keys to the Aston, pick up your cards from Miss Moneypenny and we'll have a last vodka Martini before you go. And I'm afraid that goes for you too, Callan, and Jason King, and Harry Palmer and Simon Templar. Frankly, the new superstar makes you lot look about as lethal as the Bash Street Kids. Your day is over, I'm afraid, tomorrow is the Day of the Jackal.

VOGUE (UK), 1 Oct 1973, by Charles MacLean:

The New England matron opposite betrayed unusual interest. She raised a fragile schooner of La Ina to her lips, not to sip the sherry, but so she could peek over the rim. The Jackal had just walked into the Connaught. I watched him from a recess in the lounge. He took off his raincoat, a
short, lightweight affair in muted white—trademark of the assassin—and gave it to the attendant. The rest of his clothes—cravat, greenish shirt, tweed jacket, brown trousers, brown shoes—were country come to town, the weeds of an ex-minor public schoolboy disguised as same. He looked around him with the eyes of a man with an appointment to keep. The lady hovering over the sherry glass glass seemed to need reassuring that it wasn't an appointment with death ... hers, perhaps. I went over to meet him.

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Edward Fox
• Fred Zinnemann
• David Holmes

[w1cked001]

great adaptation. the new ones sucked.

[aplantage]

@w1cked001 Plural? I only know the one with Willis and Gere (and I agree with you about that).

[w1cked001]

@aplantage oops, typo. yes, the Willis one :(

[aplantage]

@w1cked001 Thank goodness! I was afraid that there was also a TV series or something. :)

[ellocosinnombre]

great, you choice the best scenes.

[aplantage]

@ellocosinnombre Thank you. :)

[stshill1]

@aplantage "Your insults would long be grounds for blocking you. If you don't stop, I will have to." L O L, wow, what are you five? you really expect me to care? God, you are a special kind of dumb. Im done with you.

[aplantage]

@stshill1 Back up what "statements"? The reviews? Remarks by Zinnemann, Forsyth and Fox? Bestseller lists, polls on stars, boxoffice takes? Social psychology of stereotypes? Why don't you simply go and read that yourself, since you are such an "avid reader"? And I didn't insult you or anyone else. Your insults would long be grounds for blocking you. If you don't stop, I will have to. Critical discussion is fine, personal insults are not. You don't even seem to know the difference.

[stshill1]

@aplantage you're doing an outstanding job backing up your oh so scathing remarks. either back up your statements, or keep quiet you illiterate pissant.

[aplantage]

@stshill1 And with the rest of your incoherent insults, you're doing a better job of discrediting yourself than I ever could.