The other day I was thinking, as I often do, about how awesome The Wire is. I was wondering what kind of academic film writing had been done about the show. I Google Scholar’ed it and didn’t find much. Then I went to Film Quarterly’s website to search their archives and was surprised to find Omar on the cover of the freshest edition. The edition has several articles about the show including an interview with David Simon. Sadly, only one article is free. I’ve been checking around at bookstores here in town to see if they have it but no one does. UNO Library does and I might get it there.
Here’s a great David Simon quote from the free article:
Pirate DVDs of season 4 were found to be in circulation throughout the eastern seaboard ahead of its broadcast. Simon spoke vehemently about this piracy,and especially the uploading of spoilers, in an interview for aol.com: “any asshole, who, armed with a bootleg copy of a show, posts a clip of a major character being killed on YouTube or headlines a website posting with ‘XXname hereXX R.I.P.’ has pretty much defined himself before the world as a hopeless, useless premature ejaculator”
This is exciting news. I wish I was past episode 3.4 though. Will you let me know if there are any spoilers so I don’t get got by them in the article(s)?
Nothing too bad in here, but I’d still hold off until your into the final season.
great david simon quote. i downloaded season 2 off a deviant website and got a letter from hbo about it. I subsequently bought the final three seasons and now i feel like everything is right with the world.
also, the film quarterly link is busted.
Describing a website as ‘deviant’ is wonderful. What Wire character would you say most merits the ‘deviant’ description?
Probably Michael’s dad, but he’s an easy target I suppose.
Scott Templeton was a bit slimy. The scene where McNulty calls him out on his bullshit is one of my favorite scenes ever.
I’d say Naman’s mom or Officer Walker.
After looking up deviant I think I’d have to choose Omar or Marlo instead.
One of the most popular bloggers out there on liberal arts stuff posted the Film Quarterly link and gave a shout out to Walter Neff. Anyone who likes my blog will definitely like Kottke’s blog better. Flip the Rolodex to K.
I’m glad all the Wire stuff worth talking about is stuff I haven’t seen yet. Screw you guys.