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The Big Picture Benedict Cumberbatch has become one of the most celebrated actors of his generation because of the care and precision he takes in redefining classical genres. While there have been countless adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes story, Cumberbatch’s interpretation in the acclaimed BBC series Sherlock felt distinctly modern. Similarly, his Academy Award nominated performance in the romantic western drama The Power of the Dog challenged traditional standards of American masculinity.
The Courier PG-13ThrillerDrama The Courier is a true-life spy thriller, the story of an unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history. At the behest of the UK’s MI-6 and a CIA operative , he forms a covert, dangerous partnership with Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky in an effort to provide crucial intelligence needed to prevent a nuclear confrontation and defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Cumberbatch does a great job at showing how Wynne’s good-natured empathy makes him vulnerable. Wynne isn’t necessarily ignorant about world politics, but his perspective on the Cold War is limited to the selective information that is fed to him by the news media; Wynne perceives the fight against the Soviet Union as a just cause, and considers his involvement in a top secret mission to be an honorable one.
‘The Courier’ Inverts the Spy Movie Genre Through Benedict Cumberbatch's Greville Wynne The Courier has a unique perspective on the spy movie genre, as it focuses on the plight of an average man caught up within extraordinary circumstances; while the attention-to-detail in which director Dominic Cooke paints the espionage world sparks comparisons to the work of John le Carré, the premise feels reminiscent of the classic thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock.
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