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und1sk0 discovered 9 months ago- Interview with David Simon
- kalah rated 9 months ago
- In creating "The Wire," Simon said, he and his colleagues had "ripped off the Greeks: Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides. Not funny boy-- not Aristophanes. We've basically taken the idea of Greek tragedy and applied it to the modern city-state." He went on, "What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these Olympian gods, indifferent, venal, selfish, hurling lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no reason-- instead of those guys whipping it on Oedipus or Achilles, it's the postmodern institutions...those are the indifferent gods." What a fucking genius that David Simon is.
