I'm really excited about this...
Next year the 21st century movie version of "Miami Vice" will be released. I have always ranked the tv series as one of my favourites. It's one of the few series that I loved as a kid and still love today. I'm not sure if I, as a kid, understood and appreciated the contrast between the glamorous 80s fashion and the jet set milieu on the one hand and the dark and cynical tone and mood formed by the themes and the esthetics - not to mention the music - on the other hand. There was always something bittersweet over "Miami Vice", with the bitter half winning almost every time.
Then of course there is the fact that Michael Mann is one of my favourite filmmakers. He worked as executive producer on the tv series version and clearly left his mark on it, but now I'm drooling because of the fact that he will be in total control of the 2006 movie version. He's written it, he's producing it and he is directing it.
I'm hoping for a mix between Heat and the original tv series. The casting of Colin Farrell as Crockett and Jamie Foxx as Tubbs looks interesting too. I don't know much about the rest of the cast though, but all the classic characters seem to be in there: Lt. Castillo, Gina, Stan Switek, Larry Zito etc. It will be interesting to see what they'll do with the score and the choice of songs and so on. I hope and believe that Mann will keep his artistic integrity and resist lucrative offers from dubious record company people.
What do you guys think? Any more "Miami Vice" fans out there?
Next year the 21st century movie version of "Miami Vice" will be released. I have always ranked the tv series as one of my favourites. It's one of the few series that I loved as a kid and still love today. I'm not sure if I, as a kid, understood and appreciated the contrast between the glamorous 80s fashion and the jet set milieu on the one hand and the dark and cynical tone and mood formed by the themes and the esthetics - not to mention the music - on the other hand. There was always something bittersweet over "Miami Vice", with the bitter half winning almost every time.
Then of course there is the fact that Michael Mann is one of my favourite filmmakers. He worked as executive producer on the tv series version and clearly left his mark on it, but now I'm drooling because of the fact that he will be in total control of the 2006 movie version. He's written it, he's producing it and he is directing it.
I'm hoping for a mix between Heat and the original tv series. The casting of Colin Farrell as Crockett and Jamie Foxx as Tubbs looks interesting too. I don't know much about the rest of the cast though, but all the classic characters seem to be in there: Lt. Castillo, Gina, Stan Switek, Larry Zito etc. It will be interesting to see what they'll do with the score and the choice of songs and so on. I hope and believe that Mann will keep his artistic integrity and resist lucrative offers from dubious record company people.
What do you guys think? Any more "Miami Vice" fans out there?
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".
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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.
The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".
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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.