Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Jimmy, Ricky, Kiefery...
So who watched Larry King then? Did you suffer a bout of forgetfulness and miss it despite my perky reminder?
Fear not, if the clips don't end up on Youtube or Kiefer-Rocks.com, there is at least this transcript.
And Kiefer totally hits my nail on the head when he explains why he thinks "24" works so well - because it's the exact reason I became so enamoured of it:
SUTHERLAND: I also think at the heart of the show, the show really isn't about terrorism. The show is about the interaction of these people, from season one on down the line. I'll give you season one as an example. It wasn't as much about the threat as the relationship that was developed between Jack Bauer and the incumbent President Palmer. It was the relationship and the threat of the relationship between me and my wife and me and my daughter. It was the threat of those characters and what was the outcome going to be and the terrorism was the scenario that was created to create this heightened sense of reality. "24" was developed and written long before the terrible events of 9/11. So you have to understand from the writer's perspective, this was the one way that you could create this time format and create a situation that would be so dire, that it would require people to solve something like this over a 24-hour period of time.
There was a fantastic moment -- I believe it was season three or season four with Shohreh, who was a terrorist but she was also a mother. And I was more interested not in the fact that she was a terrorist, but she was caught in this terrible dilemma between what she felt responsible to her cause for and what she felt responsible to her son for. And so what I think the writers have done is they've used this as a phenomenal back drop to create this incredibly heightened tension between characters that are so well developed that an audience becomes attached to them.
So spot on. It's not merely an action-packed spy thriller show. Jack is a whole character, with flaws and all and we get to see his entire life, not just his 'save the world' side. It's why seeing Kim never bothered me as much as it does others. I liked seeing the tender sides of Jack as much as I love his Thighs of Death.
Anyway, enjoy the transcript :)
Fear not, if the clips don't end up on Youtube or Kiefer-Rocks.com, there is at least this transcript.
And Kiefer totally hits my nail on the head when he explains why he thinks "24" works so well - because it's the exact reason I became so enamoured of it:
SUTHERLAND: I also think at the heart of the show, the show really isn't about terrorism. The show is about the interaction of these people, from season one on down the line. I'll give you season one as an example. It wasn't as much about the threat as the relationship that was developed between Jack Bauer and the incumbent President Palmer. It was the relationship and the threat of the relationship between me and my wife and me and my daughter. It was the threat of those characters and what was the outcome going to be and the terrorism was the scenario that was created to create this heightened sense of reality. "24" was developed and written long before the terrible events of 9/11. So you have to understand from the writer's perspective, this was the one way that you could create this time format and create a situation that would be so dire, that it would require people to solve something like this over a 24-hour period of time.
There was a fantastic moment -- I believe it was season three or season four with Shohreh, who was a terrorist but she was also a mother. And I was more interested not in the fact that she was a terrorist, but she was caught in this terrible dilemma between what she felt responsible to her cause for and what she felt responsible to her son for. And so what I think the writers have done is they've used this as a phenomenal back drop to create this incredibly heightened tension between characters that are so well developed that an audience becomes attached to them.
So spot on. It's not merely an action-packed spy thriller show. Jack is a whole character, with flaws and all and we get to see his entire life, not just his 'save the world' side. It's why seeing Kim never bothered me as much as it does others. I liked seeing the tender sides of Jack as much as I love his Thighs of Death.
Anyway, enjoy the transcript :)
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