Jul. 29th, 2005 01:10 pm
Miami Vice
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vin_petrolMen and Motors are currently reshowing Miami Vice (21:00 each night).
They started a couple of days ago with the pilot, which I had never actually seen before. Clearly, it's dated, but in a rather beautiful THIS IS THE EIGHTIES! way: the pastel colours, the rolled up jacket sleeves, the shiny locations. Some of the shoulder pads were amazing - you felt they should have some form of warning symbol on their edges.
My hazy memory of Miami Vice is that the BBC bought it without quite understanding what they were getting. I think they took the tag line "MTV cops" a little too literally, and gave it a teatime slot on BBC2, and showed it uncut. Within a few weeks it had built up an appreciative audience of teenage boys ("ooh, guns, ooh, Ferraris"). Unfortunately, some people had also noticed that it was actually a rather violent program, with plenty of gruesome shootouts, and it was moved to after 21:00 *and* heavily cut :-( It looks like Men and Motors have inherited the BBC's old tapes, as the gunfights so far have that 'cut' feel to them (i.e. guns fire, people are dead, but you haven't actually seen anyone shot-in-slow-motion-to-a-rock-music-soundtrack, which was how Miami Vice was originally produced).
I was never really a huge fan of the series. It was something to watch, so my memories are all a little fragmented. Still, I do remember Helena Bonham-Carter declaring she was a junkie to the sound of Wasteland by The Mission, and Crockett and Tubbs racing through the night in their Ferrari (or was it a Porsche?) to the sound of Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits. Ah, the eighties...
They started a couple of days ago with the pilot, which I had never actually seen before. Clearly, it's dated, but in a rather beautiful THIS IS THE EIGHTIES! way: the pastel colours, the rolled up jacket sleeves, the shiny locations. Some of the shoulder pads were amazing - you felt they should have some form of warning symbol on their edges.
My hazy memory of Miami Vice is that the BBC bought it without quite understanding what they were getting. I think they took the tag line "MTV cops" a little too literally, and gave it a teatime slot on BBC2, and showed it uncut. Within a few weeks it had built up an appreciative audience of teenage boys ("ooh, guns, ooh, Ferraris"). Unfortunately, some people had also noticed that it was actually a rather violent program, with plenty of gruesome shootouts, and it was moved to after 21:00 *and* heavily cut :-( It looks like Men and Motors have inherited the BBC's old tapes, as the gunfights so far have that 'cut' feel to them (i.e. guns fire, people are dead, but you haven't actually seen anyone shot-in-slow-motion-to-a-rock-music-soundtrack, which was how Miami Vice was originally produced).
I was never really a huge fan of the series. It was something to watch, so my memories are all a little fragmented. Still, I do remember Helena Bonham-Carter declaring she was a junkie to the sound of Wasteland by The Mission, and Crockett and Tubbs racing through the night in their Ferrari (or was it a Porsche?) to the sound of Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits. Ah, the eighties...
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I was a big fan of the show when I was younger, I must say, but I don't think it's aged all that well. I'm more impressed by Michael Mann's Crime Story (which was pretty much buried on British TV) - set in the 50s, very dark and grim!
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I used to love it just for the theme music.
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