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"Hollywood": Abyss of Schmaltz | Israel today

2020-05-07T10:40:00.677Z


An alternate history can be fascinating, but in the case of this series it is twisted to serve Ryan Murphy's self-righteous needs | TV


An alternate history can be fascinating, but in the case of this series it is twisted to serve Ryan Murphy's righteous needs

  • You can't take her seriously. "Hollywood"

"Hollywood," Ryan Murphy's new series ("Glee," "American Horror," and more), which has surfaced on Netflix, is really trying to say serious things, but just impossible to take it seriously.

Murphy’s ambitious goal this time around is to rewrite Hollywood history and fix everything that’s broken in it. No less and no more. However, although the series' warm period appearance may mislead you and make you think you are watching a "Mad Men" quality drama, "Hollywood" is no more than a shabby, superficial, and clichéd soap opera that juggles with too many lofty social goals .

The plot takes place in Los Angeles immediately after World War II, at the center of which is a young, diverse ethnic group trying to break into the show business.

Among other things, there are the black and gay screenwriter, the semi-Filipino director, the black actress (who is also the partner of the semi-Filipino director), the handsome white actor (who is not very smart), and the Jewish studio director who takes over control of the enterprise Her husband's movies after it went into a coma.

After several episodes where Murphy and his screenwriters portray the characters and lay the groundwork, all of the above guys connect to produce a romantic drama about a young woman whose dream of becoming a Hollywood star is tragically and unjustifiably vanished. The

dialogues in the series are entertaining, and not intentionally made me remember Often in the popular trash series by Darren Starr and Aaron Spelling, and specifically in "Beverly Hills" 90210 and "Melrose Place." Although there are quite a few mentions of real events and stars that really were (Rock Hudson serves as a sub-figure), the glamor world in which they occur The events are unconvincing for a moment, the huge obstacles that emerge in the ways of the characters S ways not realistic and relatively easy (and mostly thanks to the image of "savior White"), and as the series progresses, it is deteriorating into an abyss sticky of schmaltz and kitsch.

In an alternate history is strewn with fascinating, and two recent examples demonstrate the enormous potential of the seventh Ener: Quentin Tarantino's "There Were Times in Hollywood" and David Simon's "The conspiracy against America" ​​series "There Were Times in Hollywood" Spared Sharon Tate's Life, Send Charles Manson's Killers to Neighbor (where they met Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio ), And suggested another happier ending to the 60's excellent series "The Collusion Against America" ​​presented an alternative reality that In it Charles Lindberg the nationalist and Nazi enthusiast was elected US president in 1940 instead of Roosevelt.

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"Hollywood" does not come close to the ankles of these two works. Her ideas are well-deserved and her intentions are probably good, but the fantasy work is not serious. My childhood even. Murphy does not rewrite history - he completely distorts it to fit his righteous narrative needs, and the self-satisfaction that floods the screen at the end of the series only serves to prove the thesis. The worst trash is the trash that thinks it's important.

Source: israelhayom

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