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MIRA CINEMA TV: QUIZ SHOW (ROBERT REDFORD, 1994) OPERA

At first the TV was the younger brother and hated by the cinema. And all because he passed this way or movies because there are directly produced, but little by little the big screen has been getting closer the Tele and the gems have been speaking about it, Sidney Lumet's Network, The Truman Show Peter Weir, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind George Clooney or the one that brings us here today, Robert Redford's Quiz Show .

feign what we are, we are what we pretend.

Pedro Calderon De La Barca

I was in exile these days of holidays past, when something happened not give me an early age, see two masterpieces of the cinema that evening. The first was Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (nothing to say) and the other was Robert Redford's Quiz Show . Perhaps you may think I exaggerate, but who has seen it knows that what I say is true.
And is that not only do I like this film its atmosphere of American cincuentera time focusing on the world of TV, but given the script. Why say this? The answer is because a few years ago I made a short film in which a blind man was dying in another medium an elevator with a bag full of money, y. .. What to do in this situation? ... the short is very amateur and not give more signs XD, the thing is that it is an issue that worries me because it talks about human values \u200b\u200bin this society, and it is one of the strengths of the film by Robert Redford . At the beginning l camera to film places us as a mere spectator of real TV program late 50's, The Twenty-One, NBC's weekly competition , patorcinado a real brand also called Geritol. Typical quiz and cultural responses (much more complicated than those made today in these shows by the way), and a contestant Herbert Stemple (John Turturro) who manages the said 21 points for the win.

actual pictures of the NBC competition compared with the same characters in the film

Soon after the production of twenty-one advice of Geritol and the very direction of the NBC decides to take out of the way to its current winner (who was Jewish) in favor of a new competitor who gives a handsome profile and identification to American society, Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes). What was done was to force Stemple to err on a question and secondly to ensure that Van Doren to win, they asked him things that he had responded well in the pre-casting. The next week sat the production and the current winner in a meeting room whose only intention was to give the questions and answers of the week, Van Doren was reluctant at first but he poked a little (because the truth is that earned enough money for those years), and finally agreed. This is what worries me the film, when given I thought this event would have accepted the questions and therefore the money without hesitating a second, at the end of the tape I thought just the opposite.

The drirector

Robert Redford was born in Los Angeles in 1936, when his mother died in 1955 he abandoned his studies and went to Europe to lead a bohemian lifestyle , but returned a year later and made the drink and bad habits. Until he met his first wife Lola Van Wagenen in Utah, could not desintoxiacarse and go back to school, this time Art and some interpretation. Began shortly after doing small roles on Broadway and on television (Playhouse 90, Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents ...), and just after his first appearance on film in War Hunt, l and success came in the theater, a film directed by Mike Nichols, Barefoot in the Park . Then followed by the film making side as in The Chase Arthur Penn, until he got his first starring film in the transformation of Barefoot in the Park (Gene Saks, 1967) with Jane Fonda. From this figure consolidates as Hollywood, working among others in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969), The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973) Three days of condor (Sideny Pollack, 1975), All President's Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976) and Memories of Africa (Sydney Pollack, 1985).

Since 1969, Redford had his own production Wilwood Enterprises, and in addition to his work as producer on a dozen title has directed 8 films to date.

His work as director is somewhat irregular but pulling a remarkable, in fact, his directorial debut with Ordinary People in 1980 critical and commercial success for which came to be nominated for an Oscar. Among his most notable films as well as Quiz Show and Ordinary People, meet, The River of Life, 1992, The Man Who The Horse Whisperer, 1998, Lions for Lambs, 2007. In 2010 made a film not yet released in Spain, The conspirator.

addition to his work as actor, producer or director Redford a school founded in 1980 in Utah with the intention of educating young filmmakers, 3 years later I think a film festival where they may exhibr their work, school and the International Festival have the name Sundance , and is the independent film pregioso today.

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Redford took over the rights to the book Remembering America: A Voice From the Sixties by Richard N. Goodwin, lawyer and writer who is himself a character in the movie , because as I said before the program was real, but so is the scandal of Quiz Shows in North America, in fact, his characters portray real people involved in this scam and that was to provide the answers to the questions the contestants might have more than estimated to the public and thus, have a good sponsor for your advertiser and more time to the same audience for the network. The honest and dishonest. This is the debate that proposes the screenplay adaptation for the screen that is signed by Paul Attanasio.

It is right look towards this concept to realize that since man is man, is itself a chimera especially in the West, especially in the media.

In fact it is an adjective reviled by them every day and sometimes more often without even strive to contrast it or hide it, say all the current news, sports whether national, international or heart. Every day we generate false debates no weight or truth, in order to sell products that they advertise and to sell more copies. Those who invent, distort and / or distort the news know in advance that this is their job and work, or at least self-justified on the grounds that it is and has always been press opolemica invent and generate debate and the worst cases. I have not seen or can not remember current movie that best describes what is honesty and I do not mean just any underlined parts but the whole of the final art work.

As pointed out earlier films that talk about the TV there are many but the careful direction of this makes it special. The game sweeps descriptive cameras really immerse you in the scenes, very succinctly desgranandote but totally didactic as it was the TV half a century ago. Redford
tape stops also look at the price of fame for good or for evil, and has touches of the best films of investigation and judicial. As is also
in Good Night and Good Luck (George Clonney 2005), takes us into the offices of production of a chain and that for people interested in the media is welcome.

Following a line of credit worth framing, the most consistent accuracy with all actors in the film as a whole, but above all John Tururro, making broken toy, angry with the hand that gave the eat. Ralph Fiennes plays the son of Pulitzer Prize Mark Van Doren who gives life to a great Paul Scofield, recovered by Redford for the role. Certainly I much admired Martin Scorsese has a small role in the movie , then the chief sponsor of the program, and indeed acting in this role reminded me a lot to Robert de Niro, why is that? ...

- For $ 64.000 you'd better ask the meaning of life