Ether treatment

The series "News Service" ended (" The NewsRoom ”) - an American saga about journalistic donkey -worship, which was watched with special trepidation in Russia.

Whose craft is investigated in his series Aaron Sorkin - sports observers, comedians, politicians or journalists - his main character has not been changing the second decade. The best of this vagabal character was accidentally described by Russian distributors of the last film Sormin. In the original, the drama with Brad Pitt was called “ Money Ball ” - in honor of the book of the same name and statistical theory from baseball management. In Russia, the film was called “The Man who changed everything”, as if caught the civic idealism of the screenwriter, and the way of action of his heroes.

It is generally accepted that Sormin gathered a square from Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe and Bafta thanks to the relentless follow of his own mission (and hence the style) - to inspire the audience to fight for high intellectual and ethical standards always and everywhere. The author has a proven arsenal of funds to achieve this goal: irresistible heroes that infect their professionalism; Faith in ideals, to the aid of which the script is ready to come all the time; Almost the Tolstoy ability to convey the joy of labor, and most importantly - aphoristic and passionate dialogues. The latter, sorry for the pun, is a topic for a separate conversation. Sormin in one interview admitted that the phonetic system of replicas for him is more important than content. The future great screenwriter grew up in a Jewish family, his parents were lawyers, and any dinner could turn into a scene from Sidney Lumet. Therefore, his heroes, even when they talk about unknown and boring things, hypnotize the viewer with their voices. This is the difference between Sormin and other playwrights. As you know, the cobra does not hear the music of the flute, but dancing because he knows that the tamer can hit it with an instrument. Many scriptwriters are trained in approximately the same. Sormin in this sense is more honest: we hear his music.

Do the political media remodel in the toothless Lifestail? What are you saying.

In fact, this screenwriter is unstable: sometimes it seems that he writes for cinema and TV different feathers. His work for a large screen and scene is the history of internal conflict. Jack Nicholson in “Several Good Guys” plays a military leader born for Shakespearean plays, but who finds himself in Guantanamo; Tom Hanks in the “Charlie Wilson War” - a scheme that overestimated his own mind and cynicism; Jesse Aizenberg in the "social network" - a walking black hole; Brad Pitt in the “man who changed everything” is a hostage of family obligations and sports passion.

A completely different thing is that type of person of the Renaissance, about which Sormin, changing the scenery and makeup, wrote four series: “ Sports Night " , " West Wing " , " Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip " and " The Newsroom " . The inner world of this hero is unchanged as the proportions of the Vitruvian person personifying him. The ideal American Sormoan is a fanatical workaholic who feels his responsibility for the nation and finds rapture in battle; Acute intellectual on the language, at any moment ready to bow to the wisdom of the "simple person" (especially the screenwriter loves military, police and farmers); Patriot, demanding of himself and the country. His political orientation is only on common sense: in the "News service", the Republican is a mountain for democratic achievements, but does not allow liberals to swim for buoys. This hero has long decided everything for himself and does not need any stage of formation. Her Sormin comes up only to pay tribute to the dramatic canon.

The News Service (the series is completely available in the Amediatek online service ), for example, begins with the fact that the smiling TV presenter Will Makeva (Jeff Daniels) is completely subordinate to the former bride-the demanding journalist of the old Mackens McGeil (Emily Mortimer) for any interlocutor. Recently returned from a hot point, she cannot hide her despair from what Rochlya Wall became. The transformation of the hero from the conformer into a crusader other authors would take at least one act of three. Sormin resolves the internal conflict of MacAvoy in the first series out of twenty -five. And the secondary heroes simply are no different from the key. At some point, Jane Fund enters the frame and teases the journalist for a minute, calling him Daniel Craig. He does not stand up: "Yes, I do not want to be Daniel Craig." “And you should want. Each of you, ”the heroine of the funds replies and explains the whole method of Sormina with this joke. In any of his series, there is only one idealized hero, just plays a dozen actors at once. Therefore, any human dramas - love, betrayal, meetings, farewells - Sormin are awkward. Of all the novels, he is truly only interested in production. So, already in the second episode of “News Service”, a continuous ode begins a unique journalistic team - that part of the series that spectators in Russia fell in love the most.

Fiction New York TV channel Atlantic Cable News turned out to be so idealized by the media that real American journalists criticized the series: their daily work is much more complicated, dirtier and more prosaic. But this utopia was terribly liked by their Russian colleagues - especially those who see dystopia around. And the script played along with them that there was strength: for every plot of “news services” there was a similar case from the life of our media. Did the holding's owners demand that Makeva do not touch their friends from Congress, and threatened to dissolve the entire team? Just think, they surprised. The young journalist in thought published an offensive tweet after the national tragedy? Let him send us his resume. The presenter began to come with threats? But there were no mounts. Correspondent was detained during the OCCUPY protest campaign Wall Street ? It was necessary to put on a “press” vest. Do the political media remodel in the toothless Lifestail? What are you saying. An attempt to arrange hard election debate and bring the congressman to the clean water ended in turning off the light? Well, Blackauts are generally part of the New York drama. The main thing is that they are not evicted from the office. Before the election, the heroes wandered that in a separate state they infringe on the rights of voters? They still have not seen on -site urns. Refused to accreditation for hearings in the Congress? Oh, it happens. The host ACN was under high, while leaving about the capture of Ben Laden? Just go to the Russian -speaking Secret . They defended a separate journalist, promising to leave the whole editorial office? Act, worthy of a real UZHK.

How should media behave when their country is at war - even if they do not approve of this war?

In some coincidences, there is something therapeutic, cheerful and encouraging: when McEvo jokes that he appointed himself the main thing to maintain a fighting spirit, he does not even imagine how right. The great find of the "News Service" is that it retroactively reflects the real information agenda. In 2012, in the series, it was a question of an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Arab Spring and the number one terrorist hunting. The following - about OCCUPY Wall Street and elections-2012. The third - and the last - the season started with reports from the Boston marathon. In another series, “Studios 60 to Sanset Stip”, Sormin lamented that the Americans had political memory like a child: they will listen to the news and forget. In this series, he proposed the mechanism of artistic analysis of the past year-something like a large final program. And the questions that he raises in his news releases are able to focus on both sides of the ocean.

In one season of “News Services”, the heroes prove that American drones in the Middle East are bombing civilians along with militants. In the other, they dig the fact of the use of the deadly gas of Zarina. In the first case, the Republican Makeva does not give the plot: the brave American men and women on the front line may suffer. In the second, he goes on the air with a sensation and gets into trouble: it turns out that one of the producers falsified evidence. Nevertheless, stones fly to the American embassies in the Arab countries - and although in reality the reason was in the film “Innocent Muslims”, journalists accept this on their own expense. And the audience wonders: how should media behave when their country is at war - even if they do not approve of this war? On the one hand, objectivity is above all. On the other hand, she can cost her own soldiers.

The “News Service” briefly concerns the real story of Troy Davis - a black young man, without sufficient evidence of the convicted person for the murder of 21 years and executed in 42. The death sentence was transferred several times, the process was indignant not only in America, the case reached the riots, and the director of political films Michael Moore even performed with the slogan “Enough to feed it. Georgia. " Exactly three years after the execution, the Americans received Ferguson - so Sormin’s lessons, with all their clarity and ardor, can hardly be called effective. But questions for justice in such situations arise not only in relation to the United States - so it was doubly interesting to theorize with the News Service.

Therefore, it is tempting to name the closure of the series of media losses of the year. It was terribly free, but at the same time the responsible media - and disappeared. Only one thing comforts: sometimes Sormina's calls still reach the right ears. Six years after the Western Wing in Vanity Fair came out material about the young generation of politicians who rushed to storm the White House under the influence of the series. The “social network”, presumably, was also built in a vest of the Libertarian anthem to entrepreneurship of the digital era. In the final series of "News Services", Sormin also calls for weapons. At first, he mercilessly cuts the journalism of the infotation and social networks: the first replaces the analytics with all kinds of “most overated films of all time”, the second does not bother to check the facts. And then it formulates the mission of the journalism of the present, first throwing the heroine of the book of Cervantes on the table, and then putting another aphorism into the hero’s mouth: “We are in a boat at the bottom of which is a hole. Do not patch the hole, do not transfer to another boat. It remains to scoop the water faster than it is recruited. ” In this, according to Sorkin, the calling of a journalist - and not only a journalist.