- Fr 6. Dez 2013, 19:32
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Habe die erste Staffel von Treme beendet und dabei dieses höchst interessante Interview mit David Simon gefunden. Es wird natürlich über Treme selber auch gesprochen, deswegen eine Spoilerwarnung an dieser Stelle, aber größtenteils schneidet er vorallem (eher verallgemeinert) Zuschauererwartungen, Kritiken und generelle Reaktionen an, und inwiefern er diese für gerechtfertig oder eben nicht hält. Einige spoilerfreie Auszüge...
Auf jeden Fall sehr lesenswert in meinen Augen.
David Simon:[...]So it's kind of frustrating, for people trying to blog the show each week like yourself, people trying to comment on it or to anticipate the storyline, to debate the filmmaker's choices. But it's a no-win situation. We wouldn't want to have people not discussing the show, but at the same time, you can't take the discussion seriously until everyone gets to the end. At the end, people can reflect on what they've seen, and whether it added up.Einige Kommentare hier sind auch im Kontext der kürzlichen Diskussion über Kritiken der User vielleicht ganz lesenswert. Ich persönlich glaube nicht, dass ich vollends zustimme. Das ist nun einmal das Medium Television, dem er sich dementsprechend unterordnen zu hat in gewisser Weise, wenngleich ich ihn zumindest voll und ganz verstehe.
Well, in terms of things you've read, whether it's something I've written, commenters, writers elsewhere, what misconception has bothered you the most? Where have you found people to be most far afield of your intentions?
David Simon: [...] All the feedback of, "I wish the show would be this, I wish the show would be more of this, I wish this character had less to do, I wish this character had more to do," that's of no use. It's of no use because we've already finished production, but on a more philosophical level, it's of no use. Choices have been made based on the last half hour of film. Every season of 'The Wire' built to the last half hour, to the endings. This is my seventh time of having the initial reaction to our storylines be, "I don't understand where they're going. Why do they have this? This doesn't make sense to me. I don't like this character." If you go back and watch the first episode of any season of "The Wire," or the first episode of "Treme" or "Generation Kill," knowing the ending, the choices will be entirely reasonable as a first chapter of something that is novelistic. If you experience it only as something that's an episodic entity unto itself, I can't answer that, because I don't really think about that. I'm not irate about it, I just can't take it seriously. [...]
Some people have suggested that "Treme" is a show that is light on plot. You disagree with that.
I absolutely disagree, but I think you can only make the actual judgment when you look back and see what the characters have been through and what it represented. But it's not that it lacks plot. What it lacks is the life and death stakes of the television trope.
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I didn't mean to be kvetching about the bad stuff people have written. If people are saying they love where the story is going in episode two or three, I don't buy that, either. If they like characters, if they like a moment, if they like a way something was filmed, then that's okay. When they start to sort of evaluate the arc that they can't know, the story arcs themselves, even if they're loving it, I just can't take it seriously. Nobody knows what we've built until the end.
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I don't mind if a character is selfish or insecure. I just don't need all my characters to be winning. And in the same way that people often miscalculate or fail to acknowledge the equivocation between high-stakes and plot itself, I think people generally mistake their dislike of a character as poor acting. I have watched some extremely good actors over the last decade who we've used in ways where we knew a character was supposed to be belligerent or irritating. I've watched the actor's work maligned until a point where a plot turned or revealed another aspect - often seasons later. When you think about Prez, or Ziggy within the context of season two, we've had these moments. We did one in "Generation Kill" with Sgt. Major Sixta. He was a complete pain in the ass, despised by all of the men, it was told from the point of view of the men. No one was at all sympathetic, except for Marines who understood his role. His role was to be purposely alienating and to draw fire away from the officers and onto him, and to create a sense of allegiance on the part of the men in their hatred of the Sgt. Major. And we only revealed it in episode seven. To me, the payoff for that is so much more profound. The most oversold thing in television is redemption. "Well, we feel a little bad about this character, but by the end of the episode, he'll be warm and fuzzy again!" That, to me, is bad writing.
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Auf jeden Fall sehr lesenswert in meinen Augen.
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