Yeah I think arguably Le Carré "invented" halogencore -- or you could say halogencore is like Alan Pakula x Le Carré or something -- especially the really grimy books like "Looking-Glass War." The BBC TTSS is so great, but some of the recent JLC adaptations are even closer to the "halogencore" ideal, not least because there's some actual flourescent lighting in them. Thinking here in particular of Anton Corbijn's "A Most Wanted Man," but also of Susanna White's "Our Kind of Traitor" and the new TTSS movie.
Yeah I like JLC as the godfather of halogencore. Thinking about it more there's also a clear divide between its antecedents in British fiction/movies, where the point is about a rot caused by age and stagnation (and often signaled by scenes taking place in old buildings whose functionality has been obliterated by repurposing or decay), and its full flourishing in the US, where the point is rather the shoddiness of the present - thus the halogen, drop ceilings, cubicles etc - things built quickly not to last.
Yeah I think arguably Le Carré "invented" halogencore -- or you could say halogencore is like Alan Pakula x Le Carré or something -- especially the really grimy books like "Looking-Glass War." The BBC TTSS is so great, but some of the recent JLC adaptations are even closer to the "halogencore" ideal, not least because there's some actual flourescent lighting in them. Thinking here in particular of Anton Corbijn's "A Most Wanted Man," but also of Susanna White's "Our Kind of Traitor" and the new TTSS movie.
Yeah I like JLC as the godfather of halogencore. Thinking about it more there's also a clear divide between its antecedents in British fiction/movies, where the point is about a rot caused by age and stagnation (and often signaled by scenes taking place in old buildings whose functionality has been obliterated by repurposing or decay), and its full flourishing in the US, where the point is rather the shoddiness of the present - thus the halogen, drop ceilings, cubicles etc - things built quickly not to last.