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David Simon and The Wire

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Genco_Olive_Oil, Sep 29, 2008.

  1. I say this very politely, but you should read one of the many in-depth pieces about the show, then generate a few questions of your own from there! You won't get anything out of the answer to your question, or much out of the answers to the other questions, if you come in totally blank.
     
  2. Dickens Cider

    Dickens Cider New Member

    Nah. I saw that one coming. But String? Fuck that noise.
     
  3. Giggity

    Giggity Member

    That's good stuff.
     
  4. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Here's all you need to know about The Wire. It's a perfect summation of the entire five seasons and speaks to Simon's topic of "The Audacity of Despair"

    Season 1, Episode 1. Opening scene

     
  5. STLIrish

    STLIrish Active Member

    Ask him about Bill Marimow.

    But seriously, what SirValiant said.
    Or even just go back on this board and read some of the discussion threads from the last two seasons.
     
  6. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    1. David, you've said repeatedly that you always envisioned yourself as a newspaper man for life. That you'd be, one day, the 65-year-old copy editor bumming cigarettes from the younger reporters and fibbing about having worked with H.L. Mencken, just to see if they bought it. Considering how things played out, with Times Mirror and then the Tribune Company destroying a newspaper you held dear, do you think you would have been satisfied had your life gone the way you once wished that it might? You've created, arguably, the greatest television series in the history of the medium, but it was in many ways born out of frustration and pain. You saw the role of the journalist as one who had a civic responsibility to pull back the veil that hangs over society and tell the tale. It was necessary to do this, as Waylon says with his Kafka quote in the last episode, so that people might not "hold back from the suffering of the world." Were you not able to accomplish this on a larger scale by creating The Wire? Is there some triumph in that, or does the deterioration of the American newspaper outweigh that artistic achievement in your eyes?
     
  7. PeteyPirate

    PeteyPirate Guest

    And as a follow-up, is Omar cool in real life?
     
  8. That's one hell of a yes or no question.

    Simon: Uhh ... yes?
     
  9. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Classic, unreal, but classic.
     
  10. zeke12

    zeke12 Guest

    Credit where it's due:

    That's damn funny.
     
  11. NoOneLikesUs

    NoOneLikesUs Active Member

    When called upon to ask a question I would be tempted to just clear my throat and say:

    "Shhhheeeeeeeeeeetttttttt."
     
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