When talking about the docu-movie "What Happened to Legal Shilon" that aired last night (Sunday) one should ignore the bombastic and secret promo, which increased the mystery and prepared us for exposing his health condition.
However, they are inseparable because the promo is a significant part of the package, and the package is the same cynical character with a cigar that dominated ratings in the 90s, and still knows a thing or two about the TV industry and how to attract viewers to the screen.
So after the promo department of Keshet Pampama for days a mystery around Shilon, and created an expectation of a tragic bomb exploding, it can be said that it was reassuring to discover that Shilon was paralyzed as a result of falling and confined to a wheelchair, but remained clear and calculated, and in fact - this is exactly Yigal Shilon we knew.
"You are actually directing me," Erez Tal analyzed the film's protagonist in the first scene, immediately after entering a work meeting at Shilon's home and discovering that the filming was in progress.
Tal may have been chosen to lead the story, but Shilon's hand in everything - he controls the questions, directs the scenes, sets the shooting angles and decides when to cry.
Shilon told Tal that in the early production process he refused other people who were offered to him, wishing the film would not degenerate into yellow, sleazy and overly emotional districts.
After all, Haim Etgar is an ideal casting for a tear-jerking and mysterious melodrama, certainly after he has already cracked mysteries in the past, such as where Anna Zack has gone and what the secret that Tahonia is hiding.
Still with the cigar.
Shilon in the docu-film, Photo: Keshet 12
But Shilon chose Erez Tal, knowing that his veteran colleague understands television, but emotional blackmail is not his strong point.
Indeed, it was difficult for Tal to really penetrate Shilon's soul, even though he tried and tried.
He examined why Shilon did not seek the help of psychologists, who would return with him the night of the injury and the rehabilitation period, returned him to the Herzliya studios, ordered him to "get excited," and introduced him to his brother Dan Shilon and the great Eli Yitzpan.
But since all the dramatic moments took place at the initiative of Shilon and his family, it is clear that the business is staged a little too much.
And that, in fact, was the problem of "The Miss of My Life: What Happened to Legal Shilon?": The emotional involvement of all involved and the fact that Shilon completely controlled every aspect, while even Tal's entry as a neutral figure did not improve the outcome.
In the end there was a lack of someone who would push harder or cut out unnecessary scenes.
According to him, Shilon preferred Erez Tal alongside him to expose the bluffs of the television industry.
In retrospect, it amounted to a subtle critique of friend Dudu Topaz, a re-enactment of rating struggles from the nineties, a tour of locations at Herzliya studios and the exposure of an analogous "laughter machine" with which laughter effects were once added to broadcasts.
Despite the mystery, Shilon has not really disappeared and certainly has not been pushed out of the industry.
Despite his health condition, for the past two years he has led productions for Keshet 12 ("Get Out of It" with Avi Nussbaum and Adi Ashkenazi), and as he declares on his Facebook account, he is officially employed as a channel employee.
The film also revealed ambitions for future projects, so Shilon has no reason to burn bridges and really expose loops and injustices behind the scenes.
All he wanted was to produce from his private tragic event is an exciting, funny and encouraging film that will reach as many viewers as possible.
Because the big bluff of television is to produce likable films of the above type, but to market them through dramatic, emotional promos, full of mystery and rumors (and indeed the film won a rating of 22.1% and defeated the "X Factor" which was satisfied with 14%). In short, To ride on the sensitive position of a famous figure only to cunningly attract viewers and thus take over the rating charts.This is exactly the legacy left by Yigal Shilon in the commercial channels.
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