indemnity said
Carlos said
I’m a big fan of Walter Presents though my favourite was Thou Shall Not Kill, a (counter intuitive) Italian Noir.
Everything we watch these days is subtitled on Netflix. It has just introduced a Sami Noir series (can’t remember the name) which I have bookmarked for later. I watch a lot of K Drama with Stranger, The Glory, and Taxi Driver (no not that one!) my faves. There’s also Wrong Side of the Tracks, Bitter Daisies and The Five Juanas (Spanish), Bullet and Bullet2 (French), Kleo (German), and so on. I don’t know why but UK/US stuff seems shallow and formulaic. May be it’s just that I can take one look and the casting and say “he did it…he always plays the bad guy”. Or maybe it’s just I don’t recognise the stars (though Inam beginning to in K Drama) so don’t allow casting known actors ruin things for me like they did with the GoT spin off. I mean Matt Smith and Bill Patterson fir gawds sake.
Bit in bold.....Regarding US and now some UK TV series, they tend to have the story in the narrative explaining what's going on as a conversation between the key characters....this helps the thick f***ers watching understand what's happening. ;)
Expository dialogue, yep. The US critics call it something like ‘a Mid-West’ script, which my household has adopted. The things we watch defo don’t have those. In fact we often have to pause the action and ask one another: “we haven’t seen her before have we?” Or “this is what I think is going on, do you agree?” Etc.
A good example is a recent Spanish thriller where two suspected terrorists were being interrogated unclothed. The plot moved away from them for most of the episode. When it returned one was clothed. No explanation, no nothing. My beloved kept going on and on asking “why is he clothed now, what happened, is it just bad continuity?”. Three episodes later, yep, a whole three, it became clear that between the two shots of the captives in the previous episode, one had been forced to make a fake video, for which he needed to be clothed……QED! Makes your brain hurt but that’s the secret of good telly.
