Gene should dwarf Sam. Keitel, despite his intensity, in no way dwarfs Jason O'Mara.
And I still don't like their putting the show in New York. It's not an equivalent to Manchester.
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§ ita § - Oct 24, 2008 10:08:17 am PDT #1981 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
sumi - Oct 24, 2008 10:11:57 am PDT #1982 of 11831
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I agree about New York. It works for other reasons but I think a rustbelt city like Pittsburgh or Detroit would have been a better choice.
And yeah, Keitel as Gene just doesn't work.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 24, 2008 10:23:53 am PDT #1983 of 11831
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I'm again mourning the loss of Colm Meaney in that part.
erikaj - Oct 24, 2008 10:42:03 am PDT #1984 of 11831
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dude...perfect. Even if I'll always think he's Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr.
§ ita § - Oct 24, 2008 10:43:29 am PDT #1985 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
NY in the 70s isn't slightly depressing. Manchester had a feeling of no hope. All apologies to Mancunians.
Ailleann - Oct 24, 2008 10:46:28 am PDT #1986 of 11831
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It works for other reasons but I think a rustbelt city like Pittsburgh or Detroit would have been a better choice.
I think this change would have kept me watching the American version. It being set in NYC really makes me want to nit-pick the resources available in 1973.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 24, 2008 10:54:51 am PDT #1987 of 11831
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
NY in the 70s isn't slightly depressing. Manchester had a feeling of no hope.
NY in the 70s was pretty damn depressing, unless you were a Yankees fan. However, it was not, and never will be, an industrial city. None of the buroughs is really that type of city, let alone Manhattan.
erikaj - Oct 24, 2008 10:55:54 am PDT #1988 of 11831
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Or maybe they could've created a composite...like Hill Street.Which is Chicayorkadelphiaburgh. "Rescue Me" writes better about the towers anyway. Of course, Baltimore is industrial, but they made that show already. It would be fun to me to read the city fathers wigging about their image when another cop show comes to town. Scranton, but only if John Krasinski shows up once a season to make faces in the camera.
§ ita § - Oct 24, 2008 11:04:49 am PDT #1989 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
NY in the 70s was pretty damn depressing
Okay, let me retract that. It's not been played depressing, if you don't count the towers reminder--and that's not a 70s thing.
Scrappy - Oct 24, 2008 11:12:18 am PDT #1990 of 11831
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I was in NYV in '76 and it was BAD. Like hookers giving blow jobs in Subway tunnels bad. Not enough cops and too many junkies (except midtown) bad. Garbage and grafitti everywhere bad.