After Sopranos, we continue with a series of posts on the HBO series the forthcoming release of volume in my care HBO Style. Television, Authorship, Aesthetics (Bulzoni Editore, Rome).
Generation Kill is a miniseries of 2008 created by David Simon and Ed Burns , creators of The Wire HBO always taken from the book by Evan Wright who had followed U.S. troops for the magazine Rolling Stone .
The story recounts the early entry into Iraq of U.S. Marines in 2003. In particular, the narrative focuses on a squad of so-called "recognition", with lightly armed and intended to explore and prepare the ground for further attacks with heavy weapons. Generation Kill is a product that works for antithesis and opposition: the narrative structure of the series is set up as a story "on the road" with destination Baghdad, which became a goal-chimera, where most of the action is represented by the constant movement of troops. At the same time, the static is the real key to the development narrative where the protagonist is waiting: to identify the enemy, the new target, for supplies. Although the series has all the features iconic and war-movie genre, the focus is not on war but on the soldiers and their stories and interactions. Whatever the viewer's opinion on the war - in general and the Iraq war - one can not but side with these soldiers' equipped as Ferrari sent to a demolition derby. "
choral composition of the cast, the authors point to trying to characterize each character realism and avoid the stereotypes often found in the genre. Some people were raised to characters: the reporter Evan Wright (Lee Tergesen OZ already starred in the role of Tobias Beecher), the team leader Brad Colbert (Alexander Skarsgard, True Blood already seen in in the role of Eric), Lieutenant Nathaniel Flick (Stark Sands) and Corporal Josh Person (James Ranson already The Wire).
cost more than $ 50 million and turned in seven months in various locations in Africa, Generation Kill wants to be a realistic look on the last war fought by the States branded as a failure even by the now-former President Bush. Although the sins of some ingenuity and common work of Simon and Burns try to set up a powerful and cruel fresco on contemporary society.
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