Botched movie night [I Have Thoughts]
6 hours to get through a 2 hour movie, you know what this means?
BREAKING BAD
I have to see this show on the good tv, and am planning to [i][b]share[/b][/i] it.
Been dropping a few vocal tutoring phrases like
Now when i start it you'll remember it from before, and say i've already seen that. So keep in mind it's just an episode.
and
By the 4th season it takes a hold of you, and shakes you mightily!!
There's a whole hierarchy of aesthetics i've developed over the years, i draw from this meticulous grass roots learning for all i utter, and type.
Breaking Bad is a tv show, but how does it fit in my hierarchy?
Oh i'm so glad you asked!!
Well first off, it towers above most from North America
But when treated globally, then it gets tricky.
When you gravitate to something like Breaking Bad, are you under the impression that narrative should be like that, for example edge of your seat, tense drama and so on? Or are you willing to also treasure a sort of entertainment that is predominately from a unique stylistic manner, that may indeed have very little tension comparatively to the model set by the ubiquitous high stakes crime drama.
When you are open to the idea of another way narrative can function, ie: where style overshadows even the story, THEN there will be less of a chance that my hierarchy will incense and infuriate you.
TV shows are plentiful, we can all agree, many are excellent, fewer still are stupendous.
BREAKING BAD is higher than stupendous.
Higher still are the rarefied works of art, where as was said, style overshadows, or at least is on equal footing with storytelling.
From what i've seen, the grouping here are all superior to Breaking Bad
TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN - David Lynch's vision is so stong here it for me and this is a huge compliment is actually up there with these other guys
OUT 1 - Jacques Rivette
SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE / FANNY AND ALEXANDER - the 2 Ingmar Bergman tv mini series
HEIMAT - Edgar Reitz's chronicle of his homeland
BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ - and tops for me for works for television, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's adaptation of Alfred Doblin's modernist novel.
DEKALOG - slipped my mind, this is the real tops, sorry Rainer. Kieslowski for the gold!!
Those are on a whole other level, and it's ludricuous really for me to mention them in the same post as Breaking Bad, as they are 2 radically different modes of expression.
Breaking Bad is entertainment first and foremost, and shows like that (The Sopranos, etc) are the best of their kind.
The rarefied group is imho more than entertainment, they will be letdowns for those who expect them to function like Breaking Bad.
Just opinion when expressed publically, but in my heart of hearts, it is the way, like how the crucified one was or is the way.
BREAKING BAD
I have to see this show on the good tv, and am planning to [i][b]share[/b][/i] it.
Been dropping a few vocal tutoring phrases like
Now when i start it you'll remember it from before, and say i've already seen that. So keep in mind it's just an episode.
and
By the 4th season it takes a hold of you, and shakes you mightily!!
There's a whole hierarchy of aesthetics i've developed over the years, i draw from this meticulous grass roots learning for all i utter, and type.
Breaking Bad is a tv show, but how does it fit in my hierarchy?
Oh i'm so glad you asked!!
Well first off, it towers above most from North America
But when treated globally, then it gets tricky.
When you gravitate to something like Breaking Bad, are you under the impression that narrative should be like that, for example edge of your seat, tense drama and so on? Or are you willing to also treasure a sort of entertainment that is predominately from a unique stylistic manner, that may indeed have very little tension comparatively to the model set by the ubiquitous high stakes crime drama.
When you are open to the idea of another way narrative can function, ie: where style overshadows even the story, THEN there will be less of a chance that my hierarchy will incense and infuriate you.
TV shows are plentiful, we can all agree, many are excellent, fewer still are stupendous.
BREAKING BAD is higher than stupendous.
Higher still are the rarefied works of art, where as was said, style overshadows, or at least is on equal footing with storytelling.
From what i've seen, the grouping here are all superior to Breaking Bad
TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN - David Lynch's vision is so stong here it for me and this is a huge compliment is actually up there with these other guys
OUT 1 - Jacques Rivette
SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE / FANNY AND ALEXANDER - the 2 Ingmar Bergman tv mini series
HEIMAT - Edgar Reitz's chronicle of his homeland
BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ - and tops for me for works for television, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's adaptation of Alfred Doblin's modernist novel.
DEKALOG - slipped my mind, this is the real tops, sorry Rainer. Kieslowski for the gold!!
Those are on a whole other level, and it's ludricuous really for me to mention them in the same post as Breaking Bad, as they are 2 radically different modes of expression.
Breaking Bad is entertainment first and foremost, and shows like that (The Sopranos, etc) are the best of their kind.
The rarefied group is imho more than entertainment, they will be letdowns for those who expect them to function like Breaking Bad.
Just opinion when expressed publically, but in my heart of hearts, it is the way, like how the crucified one was or is the way.
