Sen. Clay "Sheeeeeeeeeeee eeeit" Davis
posted by transpose at
13:20
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terça-feira, maio 27, 2008
terça-feira, maio 20, 2008
FREE BURMA
Se há coisa que os americanos precisam é de serem informados. Por experiência própria sei que em 99% dos noticiários da televisão americana não se fala de quase nada que diga respeito ao estado adjacente, quanto mais de uma ditadura de um pequeno e distante país sem grande recursos que valha a pena explorar. Por isso esta campanha é tão importante. Porque vem de gente que tem a sorte de ter o poder de captar a atenção para aquilo que diz e porque está feito num formato simples e sem sensacionalismos. Cru e inteligente. Tem por isso um grande impacto. Pondo de parte as preocupações humanitárias, os vídeos estão muito bons. São 30 dias para 30 vídeos. Mas já agora, junto a minha voz, porque há coisas que não podemos tolerar: FREE BURMA.
posted by blue velvet at
12:57
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sexta-feira, maio 16, 2008
quarta-feira, maio 14, 2008
Gregos
"Another reason the show may feel different than a lot of television: our model is not quite so Shakespearian as other high-end HBO fare. The Sopranos and Deadwood -- two shows that I do admire -- offer a good deal of Macbeth or Richard III or Hamlet in their focus on the angst and machinations of their central characters (Tony Soprano, Al Swearingen). Much of our modern theatre seems rooted in the Shakespearian discovery of the modern mind. We're stealing instead from an earlier, less-traveled construct -- the Greeks -- lifting our thematic stance wholesale from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides to create doomed and fated protagonists who confront a rigged game and their own mortality."
"But instead of the old gods, The Wire is a Greek tragedy in which the postmodern institutions are the Olympian forces. It's the police department, or the drug economy, or the political structures, or the school administration, or the macroeconomics forces that are throwing the lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no reason. In much of television, and in a good deal of our stage drama, individuals are often portrayed as rising above institutions to achieve catharsis. In this drama, the institutions always prove larger, and those characters with hubris enough to challenge the postmodern construct of American empire are invariably mocked, marginalized, or crushed. Greek tragedy for the new millenium, so to speak."
David Simon
"But instead of the old gods, The Wire is a Greek tragedy in which the postmodern institutions are the Olympian forces. It's the police department, or the drug economy, or the political structures, or the school administration, or the macroeconomics forces that are throwing the lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no reason. In much of television, and in a good deal of our stage drama, individuals are often portrayed as rising above institutions to achieve catharsis. In this drama, the institutions always prove larger, and those characters with hubris enough to challenge the postmodern construct of American empire are invariably mocked, marginalized, or crushed. Greek tragedy for the new millenium, so to speak."
David Simon
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