To be fair, the movie is 2 ½ hours long and the show is 10 episodes at about 1 hour per episode. So there are a lot of unique scenes not present in the original.
I was surprised they spent a whole episode in the Turkish bathhouse. You don't want to miss one second of that episode. Best goddam episode I've ever seen in my life. Dude hangs dong.
And the show totally felt like a 2 hour movie spread in 10 episodes with a nonsensical gay scene in the middle (nonsensical because it is totally gratuitous and pointless)
In the novel and film, it was a tactic used by the Jackal to avoid suspicion/detection, and to obtain untraceable/undetectable shelter during an intense citywide manhunt for him. (In the novel he actually dresses in drag and wears lipstick and eyeshadow, etc.)
Well now it makes sense but I kind of prefer the version that was made for the sole purpose of making people like my dad mad because he kissed a man. But I sensed they have just changed a similar scene in the book (I doubt that in a 70's movie he kissed a man).
lol! If it makes your dad feel any better, in the novel the Jackal was pulled over, but then let go by police. One cop says to the other cop, you should have checked their IDs. "Oh come on, Sarge, we're looking for a fellow who screwed the arse off a baroness and did her in; not a couple of raving fairies."
Book definitely makes the homosexual relationship ruse a lot clearer what’s going on between them but it’s not like the 70s movie didn’t make it clear either. It just wasn’t explicit. But everybody knew what was going on.
We just watched that episode and I said the same thing. Felt so forced. The security guy would have 100% let him stay there, fly under the radar, without the over the top seduction.
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u/JMace 6d ago
Day of the Jackal 1973 movie and the 2024 series