It¹s refreshing to find people in love with Deadwood, since I
have it in my mind as high as the other stupendous series
that TV ever produced: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and
Smiley¹s People from BBC...Unfortunately not many people
seems (in the public at large and even in the film production
and advertising world in which I work) to appreciate it and
it¹s only the occasional friend or associate that will
mention it¹s excellence and use readily the famous expletive
as a sign of recognition...I guess living in the midwest
(Detroit area) doesn¹t help...but I¹m not even shure this has
a role to play given the overall climate...Maybe some of you
on the East coast have a different view...Sadly enough a
high-placed creative director mentioned in the same sentence
that he loved the¹Housewives¹ series and didn¹t like Deadwood
because ³not much happens in it...there¹s no action...²...go
figure what this c........r was looking at...???...maybe some
nice twenty layers of EFX and image treatment would have
pleased him more...
I saw th first series on DVD and thank god there was a French
subtitle option that helped my wife (also French) and its
existence prompted me to ask several crime writers and
critics friends in France if the series had gotten
there...and I would have assumed that it would be welcomed
there by both critics and the public at large...I also sent
e-mails to the discussions groups in France about crime and
noir novels to which I belong
(Rompol/Mauvais Genres/Europolar) warning them about this
great series and especiallly about the script writing and its
other form: editing, but since they knew nothing about it,
they couldn¹t Œparticipate¹ to my enthousiasm or
analysis...and even, in typical French fashion, one of the
group leaders refused my e-mail for distribution since it
didn¹t concern directly crime novels!!!!... I wonder if
fellow Frenchman Andr頫nows why this has not gone to France
yet???... Yet, somebody payed to have all these subtitles
(French/Spanish) made and I would assume that a distribution
deal in advance would have taken care of those checks...maybe
it¹s out in Qu颥c???...
Just so you know, there is an interesting article in NYTimes
this morning about a new TV series called ³Into The West² and
the critic (Alexandra Stanley) makes several comparisons
between this new saga and ³Deadwood² which greatly favor
David Milch¹s production. I include that critique as an
attachment. I assume that most of you know these two
websites: http://www.hbo.com/deadwood/
and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348914/
where more info can be obtained.
Question to Jim: did Walter Hill use also the same sets
and/or locations for his Geronimo of 1993??... And we should
remember that he did the great The Long Riders...and Southern
Comfort with Carradine...
Merci for this interesting discussion which is dead center in
the writing range we deal with...
Sylvestre (Steve) Noval...le Montois de D鴲oit
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