今天看见张三小姐的博上说自己被HBO惯坏了，看得不要看其他电视剧。正好我刚从头开始看Deadwood，又上不了她的博回复，只好到公众场合吐口水。Deadwood 写得真是好啊，演得也好，拍得也好，HBO真肯花钱搭外景做衣服等等，决不比电影差。人物鲜明而又模糊（个性鲜明，道德模糊），一听David Milch的commentary track才知道这么多主配角都是真有其人的耶！也不知查了多少历史文献故纸堆。对话啊，情节转折啊，精彩死了，一句废话都无，三言两语把一团乱麻交代得清清楚楚还有大把多余的回味。真的，有这种剧集，谁还有时间去浪费在无聊的俊男美女念叨空洞无味的GP对话JJWW没完没了。
听作者讲commentary满有意思的，这老头（听上去挺苍老的）说话竟然就是半脏话半文言的本色！好玩死了。可惜只有第一集有他的旁白。又多个偶像。
重新推荐：Deadwood (密斯张三请入)
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Are they poking fun at Scientology or promoting it?
Steve Martin wrote and directed a movie before, Bowlfinger or something, that was a satire of scientology (and a few other things) inside Hollywood. Scientology isn't really a big cult, but they promote themselves intensively in Hollywood. A lot of people in show-biz are converts.
The pseudo science-plus-pop psychology-plus-christianity-plus-pseudo eastern philosophy approach adopted by L. Ron Hubbard is not unlike the other Chinese cult with theories about Qigong and wheels and aliens etc. Sometimes I wonder if Li xx based his thing on Hubbard.
Are they poking fun at Scientology or promoting it?
Steve Martin wrote and directed a movie before, Bowlfinger or something, that was a satire of scientology (and a few other things) inside Hollywood. Scientology isn't really a big cult, but they promote themselves intensively in Hollywood. A lot of people in show-biz are converts.
The pseudo science-plus-pop psychology-plus-christianity-plus-pseudo eastern philosophy approach adopted by L. Ron Hubbard is not unlike the other Chinese cult with theories about Qigong and wheels and aliens etc. Sometimes I wonder if Li xx based his thing on Hubbard.
well...
spoilers.
it's Kimber. after all the sh*t she's been through, now she finds sth "more compatible with my inner nature", namely Scientology, and becomes much happier. She audited and converted matt, who asked his dads for money to enroll in. Dads are all no-no, but mom is soft hearted and claims "but it helps him!" etc. Very politically correct so far.
spoilers.
it's Kimber. after all the sh*t she's been through, now she finds sth "more compatible with my inner nature", namely Scientology, and becomes much happier. She audited and converted matt, who asked his dads for money to enroll in. Dads are all no-no, but mom is soft hearted and claims "but it helps him!" etc. Very politically correct so far.
Deadwood到现在第一季只看完了一半，渐入佳境啊，搞得我连电影DVD都无心看了，往后推。似乎长篇电视剧集比电影给作者和演员更大的发挥余地，有更多的时间编织出一整个世界，一大群生动的人物，从主角一个脾气火爆的退休警察和一个阴险狡诈八面玲珑的妓院老板，到一句台词也没有的杀猪的中国人和叽叽喳喳唠唠叨叨唐僧式的牧师，个个都精彩。不仅男人之间的义气给写得真切（而且，很真实的地方是，男人之间对话很少），现在连几个女角都写得各有神彩，一个上流社会东部女为了救负债的赌徒老爸而嫁给愚蠢的有钱人流落到这个鬼地方，一个性格刚烈的妓女，一个满嘴脏话外粗内软的Calamity Jane，现在又多了个同性恋的头牌红妓女，哇，真好看，真吓死人，怎么能同时搞出这么多的人物还个个都有声有色呢！哀哀，最崇拜里面的对白，一层又一层地揭示人物之间和人物内心的冲突，一句顶别人半个钟头的
Just finished Season 1. I don't know if anybody will heed my enthusiastic, blood-puking recommendation for this series, but just in case you do, do not forget to listen to the commentary for the last episode of the season by the 2 lead actors, Tim Olyphant and Ian McShane. It is hilarious and fantastic. McShane, like a true Brit stage thespian, talks with a flair no American actor can muster. 
(OK I promise I'll let the subject drop for at least the next week.)
(OK I promise I'll let the subject drop for at least the next week.)
Hi， my first post here. 
I happened to read a comprehensive article about the writer of Deadwood, David Milch, from the New Yorker back in 2004. OMG, this man is fascinating!
http://pasta.cantbedone.org/pages/DHc-Nw.htm
I happened to read a comprehensive article about the writer of Deadwood, David Milch, from the New Yorker back in 2004. OMG, this man is fascinating!
http://pasta.cantbedone.org/pages/DHc-Nw.htm
Thanks a lot! Fascinating, but not surprising. Milch could have been as Ivy League and as academic as anyone, but thank God he is not cut out for it. Thank God he found a way to work in television. Writing, especially writing fiction, is to lay bare one's soul. No way around it.
This morning while driving I was thinking about whether Milch is a religious man. The first season contains, among a million other themes, an anguished examination of faith and (the Judeochristian) God. (BTW, he is Jewish, I think.)
This morning while driving I was thinking about whether Milch is a religious man. The first season contains, among a million other themes, an anguished examination of faith and (the Judeochristian) God. (BTW, he is Jewish, I think.)