Modesty Blaise

Saturday morning started with watching a movie from Modesty Blaise series on television-My name is Modesty.

Directed by Scott Spiegel, the movie presents British Actress, Alexandra Staden as Modesty- a character created by Peter O'Donnell in 1962 for his comic strip by the same name. There was no character of Willie Garvin in this movie.

Though I haven’t watched any of earlier Modesty series, this one entertained me. I was getting up only in breaks and didn’t feel the need to change the channel while watching the movie (in wake of so many trash movies, such have become the criteria to announce any movie good)

The movie shows the flashback story of early life of Modesty, a roulette-wheel operator in Morocco, before she takes over Louche’s organization.

Alexandra has very skillfully played the part of Modesty. The confidence in her blue eyes and the sophistication of her movements, even while the villain (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau of Black Hawk Down) is throwing her on the floor, fits the role of the character. The only drawback I could feel was that she looks very thin.

Nikolaj Waldau also played the character of Miklos well though it is hard to fathom why he would want to know her past every time he wins on the roulette!

News has it that Quentin Tarantino has been interested in directing Modesty Blaise for a long time. No updates…

Uma Thurman could have also played this role. It would be interesting to see how she would have fit into this character.

I am not going to write any spoiler warning as I will not tell you the story. No point- I am not good at it anyway.