Oakley Hall essay

[Ghetta Life]

I started paying for digital cable about six months ago, and have recently 
started watching Deadwood.  At first I thought that all the "fucking"  
expletives was anachronistic (probably so), but after watching for a while 
it started to feel right.  Sort of a way to bring us into the time period by 
using modern expletive, when "correct" ones would put a wall of atique 
between the viewer and actor.

Ghetta

>From: <w8yle at fuse.net>
>
>Hello, Otto.
>
>If you have a chance to see the pay-TV broadcasts of Deadwood, I would urge 
>you to do so. In spite of its obvious debt to Oakley Hall, there's a great 
>deal that sets the series apart from any other work of fiction about the 
>American West. Part of that, as noted here earlier, is the richness and 
>emotional vulnerability of the characters. A very big part of it is the 
>gorgeous, almost Shakespearian language of the dialogue, liberally seasoned 
>(sometimes to the point of farce) with expletives. it would be interesting 
>to see how that works in German. Is the German version to be subtitled, or 
>dubbed?
>
>Don Corathers

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