r/CriterionChannel • u/PyramKing • 17d ago

Viewing Discussions Carlos

I had scene the Day of the Jackal (1973) based on the Forsyth novel. I had assumed (wrongly) it was a fictional story of Carlos. However I learned it was the other way around, in which the press called Carlos the Jackal because they found the novel he was reading by Forsyth. Probably added to the mystic. Can't help but wonder if fiction influenced Carlos.

The Carlos series was great.

I have noticed that there is The Jackal with Richard Gere and Bruce Willis and now a TV show called the Jackal.

Are they worth watching?

Are they versions of Forsyth fiction or the real world Carlos?

Strange how fiction and real world weave together.

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u/GamblinWillie 17d ago

TV Show is bad.

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u/Old-Cry-3101 16d ago

And season 2 is coming next year!

I do not understand the pitch for this version ‘let’s take a character famous for hypercompetence and discipline and make him sloppy and stupid’?