Categoría: Media
Grado de dificultad: 3 (Por el idioma)
Columnista: Roberto
En un periodo donde se habla de guerra, todo el resto (un lanzamiento de cohete, por ejemplo …) pierde relevancia.
Ilusiones de peligro suelen provocar conflictos perfectamente evitable. Un ejemplo reciente nos da una muestra del ¿cómo ? y del ¿quién? puede provocar tales ilusiones (que benefician a unos pocos).
Este artículo TMN necesitaba ser en inglés, para reflejar el origen de una tóxica ilusión.
The Madison is (unpleasantly) surprising
I don’t like Taylor Sheridan …
I don’t like Taylor Sheridan, even if I recognize him a real talent as a screenwriter …
What a weird and aggressive statement to start an article! Isn’t it? It took me some time to find the correct angle to begin writing it.
The moment that disqualified him with me was a scene at the end of his series “Lioness”. It was a military attack on Palma de Mayorca.
The justification? To kill a terrorism-backing banker (“obviously” an arab one). As some high administration official recently said, “let’s get rid of stupid rules of engagement”.
In the civilized world, this is called a war crime, but who cares?
Well, I do.
An association I wouldn’t imagine
There are also his repeated demonstrations of contempt for city folks, and this boring obsession with “owning the libs”.
So, I wasn’t interesting in any of his project … Or so did I think, until I discovered that his most recent serie, “The Madison”, was starring Michelle Pfeiffer.
I will easily admit that she has been one of my favorite stars for a long time and that I still enjoy seeing her on a screen.
But “Michelle Pfeiffer in a Taylor Sheridan project” is not an association I would normally imagine.
A city mouse misplaced in Montana
Nor does she, apparently:
Video retrieved from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert YouTube channel
The interview was in two parts, here is the second one, just for you to see who this lady is:
Video retrieved from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert YouTube channel
Soft, clear and straight in her opinions, this “city mouse” is definitely a “lib” … More likely a progressist, actually, without ever having to say it nor spitting contempt on anyone.
It seems hard to imagine more opposite to each other than Taylor Sheridan and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Why choosing her? An uneasy mystery
What is she doing there, then? In her case, it’s rather easy to guess. She is a producer and the boss of several other activities, so an extra cash is always welcome … As long as her integrity is not in peril, which doesn’t (thankfully) seem to be the case.
But for him, why choosing her? It is far more uneasy, for me, to answer that question.
I don’t plan to watch the serie (beyond its first episode) despite the presence of good actors. The scenes and characters shown from New York City are too despicably shallow …
Reality is far bigger and farther
Yet another sunk-coast fallacy dilemma
I have been procrastinating for several days, asking myself if I’d rather scrap this article before even being published. You know: the “sunk-coast fallacy” dilemma.
It is sometimes upsetting, and other times depressing, to see wealthy individuals turning people against each other for their own gain. The most depressing is not even that they would do it but that people would choose to believe them.
They say he wanted to build a story around her … Which seems correct. Around her character, her “family” is a bunch of caricatures, projections of what Sheridan thinks New Yorkies are.
The whole series is about him and his resentment for … Is there even any reason for his resentment?
The Madison illusion
Still, there seems to be some moral to the story because we already know one answer to this question:
The Madison was supposed to be part of his “Yellowstone” franchise, and it won’t. I would guess that Pfeiffer’s way of interpreting the story already made it incompatible …
It looks like his characters (AKA him) are trying to reconcile with a reality hidden to his eyes. This reality is not a “big sky” in Montana nor a luxurious ranch in Texas. It is far bigger and farther.
It would be about time for him (and for many others) to open their eyes. They have been missing so many things.
Their awakening would be beneficial for everyone.
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