All these writers you mention have the same attitude towards
marriage? They have the same attitude towards religion? It's
possible. I'd suggest that it's also irrelevant. What's
relevant is the characters' attitude to these matters. If one
writer shows Omar adopting, for instance, a particular
religious stance, it has to be consistently applied
throughout, regardless of any other writer's personal
feelings.
Al
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From:
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Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:49 PM
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Hardboiled and
Marxism
Allan Guthrie wrote:
"Rob, surely every screenwriter on The Wire or
Deadwood can't have the
same 'social assumptions.'?"
I get your point about collaborative works, but
The Wire, at least, is a
bad example to make your case. From what I know
of the writers of The
Wire, Simon, Burns, Pelecanos, Lehane (and didn't
Richard Price also do
some work on it?), from their individual works,
interviews and, in a
couple of cases, personal conversations, they are
a pretty consistent
bunch in their social assumptions. Of course,
that's not too surprising
in a work that consciously set out to address
social assumptions, so the
creator, David Simon, hired people who would fit
in with his vision.
Mark
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