2024-01-31 17:53:46
This is not a new phenomenon: since the late 1970s and early 1980s, with the tremendous success of “Mash” and “Tahila”, television producers in the United States have been trying to take hits from the cinema and translate them into a television series. In recent years, with the streaming revolution, the constant stream of television remakes has become an uncontrollable flood, from “Fargo” and “The Quarrel Twins” to “Cobra Kai” and “Go to the End”, with “Sexy Beast” also joining the pile last week.
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In Israel they chose to call this film “Get Out Clean”, but it was in 2000 and the world was different and it was permissible to show forgiveness. The cult crime comedy “Sexy Beast”, which was a breath of fresh air in 2000 and one of the brilliant gangster films of the era, also launched the career of director Jonathan Glazer, who is now nominated for an Oscar with the Holocaust film “Area of Interest”.
The series “Sexy Beast”, a British production invested in the streaming service Paramount+, is a prequel that takes us to the origin story of the Irish gangster Gal (played wonderfully by Ray Winstone in the film), whom we met in 2000 when he lived with his wife in the Costa del Sol after retiring from the life of crime, When he is forced to return for one last big heist at the hands of his ruthless accomplice, Don (Ben Kingsley the Giant). Now we are taken back a decade, when they are at the beginning of their criminal journey, and James McCardle and Emon Elliott have to fill the huge shoes of the great actors who played in the original film. Not a simple task at all.
The first three episodes went up last week to the Paramount+ servers (and tomorrow it’s a weekly episode every Thursday), and in them Sarah Green stood out, in the role of ex-porn actress Didi, Gal’s wife (only here she’s not his wife yet and they’re just meeting). While the movie was mostly a spectacular combination of filmed and designed scenes that jumped out the plot, the series concentrates on the characters and their development, and it’s not sure that’s what we were missing. But what, she has a rhythm, and she has a groove and cocky accents, and if you forget for a moment the excellent original, you can make a life with her. The creator of the series is Michael Clough, from the screenwriters of “The Sopranos”, so it can’t be bad. sexy.
>> “Sexy Beast”, season 1, nine episodes, now on Paramount+
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