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| Sujet: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Dim 4 Fév 2007 - 14:21 | |
| Attention, il y a quelques spoilers saison 2.Je traduirai tout à l'heure si j'ai le temps. "Criminal Minds" executive producer Ed Bernero.
There aren't too many writers in Hollywood who can say they once wrestled a man for their service weapon. Ed Bernero is such a person. Since then, the former Chicago cop turned writer has thankfully only had to have his fictional characters wrestle for fictional guns on such shows as "Brooklyn South," "Third Watch" and now "Criminal Minds." I recently had the chance sit down with Ed at the show's production office where we talked about how he made the transition from cop to screenwriter as well as his love of the Bears, the show's Super Bowl episode ("I almost have to walk into the ocean and die the next day") and TV in general. Brian Ford Sullivan: How do you not take [the show's material] home with you? Ed Bernero: We do. First off all, I used to be a cop so I know that most of what we do on here is not as bad as what's really happening out there anyway. I mean we have to tone down most of our show. So they're all based on something real that happened and we sort of have to pull back from the reality, because the reality is usually far worse than we could actually do. But the writers, we have this stack of research when a new writer comes in and has to take home and read - homicide investigation manuals, sexual homicide investigation manuals, etc. Simon [Mirren], my number two, won't even have it at his house overnight. [Laughs.] He'll take them out and put them in his car and then bring them back into his house in the morning. It's just horrendous stuff, but it's happening, happening right now. There's a strangler in London, there's a serial killer in Atlantic City, they're all over the place. BFS: So then how does one go from being a Chicago cop to running one of the most popular shows on TV? EB: Very happily. [Laughs.] I was on midnights for the last seven years I was a cop and I started writing for something to do during the day. My wife is a nurse and my kids went to school during the day so I had nothing to do. So I started writing. I was going to write a book and that was horrible. [Laughs.] My problem was I kind of rambled. I would start and then like 12 pages later I was like, "what the hell, it's not even the same story!" And one of the cops I worked with was an actor in Chicago and I was telling him about this and he said, "you know, you should try and write scripts because you really can't do that - you have to hit certain things by certain pages and it kind of keeps you on track." And he brought me Syd Field's book "Screenplay." And I read it in the squad car and I thought "I think I can do this." And I told my wife I was going to write a movie and she's like, "does that cost anything?" [Laughs.] I said "no" and she said, "okay, have fun." And she went off to work and I wrote a Christmas movie and I wrote like four or five movies, never really expecting anything to come of it. You know, being from Chicago, Hollywood is not something you think about. I really did it just as something to do. After a while my wife was like, "you should find out who to send these things to because they're pretty good, these are movies I'd watch." So we sent some stuff out to Hollywood and one day a guy from NBC called me and after ten minutes of - no you're not, yes I am - he asked me if I ever tried to write television and since [I was a cop] to try and write for one of the cop shows on the air. And the funny thing was is I didn't watch television because working midnights, primetime is like your sleep time. Like I never saw "ER" until I moved here. I knew that it was on - people at work talk about it - but I had never seen it. So I had my wife tape all the cop shows that were on one week and I wrote an episode of "Homicide" and sent it out. And the next week, I had a number of agents call me and this all happened very fast. And I came out here. And the first show that I worked on full time was "Brooklyn South," was on the staff for that. When that was canceled, I met with John Wells and did "Trinity" with him, which was like canceled in the first commercial break. [Laughs.]
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Nombre de messages : 2864 Date de naissance : 04/09/1997 Age : 27 Localisation : *Somewhere* Personnage préféré : Emily Prentiss Loisirs : les arts du cirque, regarder la télé, mes amies, lire, écrire, usw Date d'inscription : 21/07/2006
| Sujet: Re: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Dim 4 Fév 2007 - 14:21 | |
| BFS: That was the one with Tate Donovan, Justin Louis...
EB: ...right, right, an Irish family in New York. And one of the characters was a detective, which was the only reason I was there. Because I'm an Italian from Chicago, I don't know why they thought of me for "Trinity." [Laughs.] But when that show was canceled, John Wells asked if I wanted to create a show with him and I was like, "ummm, yeah!" And the two of us created "Third Watch," which was on for six years. And when "Third Watch" ended I made a deal Paramount and as part of the deal I was assignable and they sent me a bunch of scripts, and ["Criminal Minds"] was one of them. And I thought "this is pretty cool." So the rest is history. I've been here since the second episode. They did the pilot in Vancouver while "Third Watch" was still on. While the pilot to this was being done, I was directing the final episode ever of "Third Watch." So when the pilot was finished I came over and took over for the second episode on.
BFS: Is [creator] Jeff [Davis] still involved with the show?
EB: No, Jeff hasn't been here since the first month.
BFS: So what's it like to run a show you didn't create after being involved with "Third Watch" for so long?
EB: It was difficult. Any show when you make it, the first 13 episodes all you do is make the pilot over and over to cement in people's minds what it is. And you want to try and get the back nine, you know, the second half of the first season, and once you get the back nine you're sort of out of time to change it. And the second year is where you really can kind of play. What we're doing now is a lot more character-based, we're learning a lot more about sort of their back stories and stuff like that. So it's more fun this year. But it was difficult [originally] because losing the guy who created the show we sort of as a staff... what's different in this environment here is most shows have one person who knows the concept better than anybody and everybody else tries to catch up, to try and be as much help as possible to that person.
In this case, the person who created the show was gone so I, being the showrunner, am much more open to any of the writing staff's ideas because they've all been here from the beginning too. I don't know the show any better than they do. It's very collegiate. We all work together, it's very much a team effort. At the end of the day, I have the final, you know - we're going to do that or no we're not going to that - but I think it's much more collegiate than most shows. Everybody is kind of at the same level, everybody knows the show as much as everybody else. So it had it's disadvantages but at the end, I think it was a huge advantage to have that person pulled out of it.
BFS: You've mentioned [in other interviews] a lot of the show is based on Arthurian mythology, how did that come about?
EB: It started from that. You know how it works - everybody pitches ideas, that you should do this and you should do that - and for me to take all those in and be able to answer whether it works or not I had to have a box for the show. I had to figure out what the show was. Because you don't have time to explore [idea "X"] for three weeks and find out it doesn't work for the show, I need to be able to go "I don't think that's going to work" or "yeah, that'll probably work, this won't." And so I spent a lot of time in the beginning trying to figure out what the show was, what we were telling. And I'm a big fan of Arthurian legend and it occurred to me one day these guys are like the Knights of the Round Table. So when they pitched stories to me, I'd think, "hmmm, does that sound like an Arthurian legend when stripped down to its essence?" We'll even go so far as to figure out which knights each one of them are. So some stories kind of fit under a Galahad or some stories fit under a Lancelot. The F.B.I. itself is King Arthur and all of the knights serve the king in different ways. So it just kind of helps, it gives us a shorthand and I know right away whether a story's going to work or not. So that's how it came to be.
BFS: So I know everybody's big thing is to label a show a "procedural" or a "serial," do you view the show as - "we have an idea, let's see how we can hammer it out in an hour" or is it - "I have a broader sense of where I want to see where these characters go over the course of the year and let's gear the stories to that?"
EB: Yeah, both of those things. Interestingly enough, I never thought of the show as a "procedural." I could never explain what it was. I think it's closer to "X-Files" than to "Law & Order." Because the bad guys that we go after are almost ethereal to people. They're not armed robbers, they're not people you could see every day. These are kind of like ghostly people. Look at the place someone like Jeffrey Dahmer holds in our culture and society, Ted Bundy, these people are kind of ethereal to us. They don't even seem like real people. They're sort of celebrities in our culture in a bad way. It's almost like it's more magical than those other shows although we never try to be magical. Nothing that our guys do are not what the actual F.B.I. doesn't do. The B.A.U. profilers that we talk to and we have one in particular that we talk to a lot, Jim Celemente, who wrote one of our episodes, they're just incredible people. They'll tell you, it's not magic. You look at things and ask "what does this tell you" and "everything you do in a room says who you are." But I think our show is actually closer to "The X-Files" than any kind of procedural.
BFS: So here comes the obligatory "Lost" question - does going against something like that affect how you do the show?
EB: I will say that during the season you don't think about it. Before we were ever on the air, everybody went "oh my God, we're against 'Lost!'" See I was a fan of "Lost" and like most fans of "Lost" I was exceedingly disappointed by the end of the first season that they didn't answer anything. I gave them 22 hours and they [didn't answer anything]. So I thought that they actually made a big mistake. So I thought, "you know, I don't think it's so bad going against [them] because if they're going to disappoint their audience like that we can probably catch them." And I think that's what happened.
Although I think what mainly happened is that we've shown - and like I said I'm a big fan of Damon and Carlton... I think they're incredible writers and we certainly couldn't spend our time thinking, "Can we beat them? Can we beat them?"- but I think what it's really proven is that there's still room for two successful shows [to go against one another]. People think that nobody watches television. I think that if there's something good, people come back. When we have 18 million viewers and they have 17 million viewers, that's not too bad. It almost doesn't matter who comes in first. It can be fun at the showrunner's meeting, but it's not really why we do it. [Laughs.] I'm glad people watch it and I hope they do but you can't write and produce for that. You have to write what you believe in and something that you're proud of and hope that people watch. | |
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| Sujet: Re: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Dim 4 Fév 2007 - 14:22 | |
| BFS: Besides "Lost" then are there any other shows you keep up with?
EB: I gotta tell ya, my newest love is "Dexter." I think that show is amazing. You know, I try to understand why shows on cable feel so much better than shows on network television. And I really believe that the answer is commercials. We have this artificial structure in network television where we have a teaser and five acts, a six act structure. So what we have to have every eight or nine minutes is some high point in drama that we then explain coming back and build up, so we're constantly building momentum every eight minutes. It's unnatural storytelling. Nobody says, "I have a great story for ya" and starts to tell you the story and every eight minutes goes "hold on, I have to go take a shit, then it's really going to get good" you know what I mean? It's not really any kind of natural storytelling. And I think you watch something like "Dexter" where there's a slow build to the story, a pacing to it, a rising action that rises to the end that makes you feel really satisfied.
And I think that commercials in network television... you know, the first time I realized this - it was "24." And speaking of Paul Bromfield, Paul Bromfield did a review of "24" before it came on... and he said, "poor '24,' when you put the commercials in it, it's just not as good." And then I was like, "well, it's not good television then because it's got to be able to sustain having commercials in it." But then I started thinking, oh that's right, when we watch these, I get a DVD and it has the act breaks but they're only a second. It's different than when we see it on television. There's no act break you can do that's going to make people sit there for two minutes and not look at something else. There's just not.
Unless you tell them we're going to give $10 million dollars to the first caller who calls in the second after we come back on. [Laughs.] They're not going to sit there - they're going to get up, they're going to go to the bathroom, pause TiVo, take a phone call, do whatever and then come back and watch the show so it's an unnatural kind of storytelling. And cable, it's very natural. You sit down, you watch an hour - and actually a full hour, not 18 minutes shy of an hour - and I think that's why it's so much more satisfying. It's like watching little movies rather than something that breaks every eight minutes. So yes, "Dexter," I love "Dexter." That's why I have trouble writing a novel, see how I ramble? [Laughs.] I started talking about "Dexter" and I end up talking about slow building storytelling. [Laughs.]
BFS: So with that mind, do you see yourself moving to cable once this show ends - eight, nine years, however long you want it to run - from now?
EB: I think so. I would love to. Every writer I think would love to do something on cable. It's much freer, characters can actually say "shit" instead of "what the heck." I like the fact that you can tell stories slowly. But that being said, I love what I do now. There are certainly not 18 or 19 million people watching "Dexter." If it's got one million people they're happy. We can reach a much larger audience. Last night's episode [EDITOR'S NOTE: This interview was done on December 14.] we did an episode that was very personal to us about the Shemar character being molested as a boy and convincing a young boy that it was okay to say that he was molested. Last night I think 18 or 17 million people I think saw that. In that 17 million people there's going to be someone going through that and maybe today they'll actually talk about it which would be incredible.
It's not likely in cable you're going to get that size of an audience that you can actually speak to. I had an interesting conversation with Danny Glover - I was going to do a show with Danny Glover at one point - and I asked him if being on television was like a demotion, being that he's Danny Glover. I said, "well, on an average night 'Third Watch' had 11 million viewers, tell me what movie ever opened to 11 million people? That's a $110 million opening for a movie. And we do that every week. That's an average night for us. So if you want to speak to people, if you want to reach out and say something to them and touch people's lives - it's television, it's network television that you're on."
It's also, cable is a lot like movies. They do the whole season, they write the whole season, they shoot the whole season and you might not come on for six months. We're a very vibrant industry. We have 22 episodes to do in 10 months, basically 11 feature films. And we have this idea that we're talking about right now, we're going to start filming the day after we come back. It's like so immediate, it's there. There's a level of pressure and excitement to it that doesn't exist in any other field. In movies, shit, it's hurry up and wait. You write a movie now, maybe somebody three years from now will make it. We write something and in a week and a half you're sitting down on the set watching the actors say your words and direct your piece. So it's a much more vibrant world.
There's an urgency to this, it's almost like... old time show business. Every eight days we have a new episode to make. We call it a big machine that eats material, you just have to keep feeding this machine. 22 episodes is 22 episodes. It's also kind of unfair that like in the Emmys it all gets lumped into the same thing because working on a cable show is completely different, it's not even the same field of work than we have. We have to make 22 episodes in 10 months. I mean I would love to boil our season down to the best 10 episodes we made and we waited until they were all finished and we tweaked them all up nice and then put them on. But we can't, that's not the business we're in. We're making 22 of these things. We have four weeks off or five weeks off and boom it's like I got good and bad news - you're back next year. [Laughs.] It's both, like "Oh my God, I have to think of 22 more of these things?"
BFS: On that note, does it ever feel like you're repeating yourself? Like we've killed people 34 ways, what's really number 35?
EB: We haven't. One of the benefits of the B.A.U. is that they don't just do serial killers, they do any kind of serial crimes. We've done arsonists and bombings, a terrorist storyline. The B.A.U. is pretty varied in what they do. I gotta tell ya, we're working on number 16 right now, so for 38 episodes we haven't had a hard time finding material that wasn't fresh. It's a pretty twisted world. [Laughs.] Maybe after 100 we'll have trouble, but so far after 38 we're still going strong. We still have a board full of stuff, it's just a matter of "let's do this one now." There's stuff we thought of in the first season we haven't done yet. It seems to me this show could run for 35 years and not run out of stuff because people just get more fucked up all the time. [Laughs.] Lucky for us.
BFS: In terms of character arcs, do you start each season with characters at point A and go into the season with the goal of them being at point B? En parlant des arcs scénaristiques sur les personnages, commencez-vous chaque saison avec l'idée d'amener les personnages d'un point A à un point B ?
EB: We did that a lot more on "Third Watch," my last show, than we do on this show. I think the most interesting thing we have to explore before we start exploring where they're going is where they came from. And that's what we're trying to do this year. Nous avons davantage fait cela sur New York 911, ma dernière série, que dans celle-ci. Je pense qu'il est plus intéressant d'explorer d'abord d'où ils viennent avant d'explorer où ils vont. Et c'est ce que nous essayons de faire cette année (saison 2). What fascinates me is having been a cop, I know how debilitating it is emotionally and how it's just an erosion of your soul. And I don't know how anyone in the law enforcement world would choose to do what these guys do, which is work around the worst possible people in the world, the worst possible crime scenes, the worst animals in our society. It is endlessly fascinating to me is why - why are each one of these characters doing this? Especially when there are so many other jobs in law enforcement they could do. Ce qui me fascine, ayant été policier, c'est que je sais combien c'est ?? émotionnellement et à quel point cela use l'âme. Et je ne sais pas comment des gens qui travaillent dans la police peuvent choisir de faire ce que ces gars font. Ils travaillent avec les personnes les plus horribles au monde, les pires crimes, les pires animaux de notre société. Ce qui me fascine sans arrêt c'est pourquoi chacun de ces personnages fait ça. D'autant plus qu'il y a beaucoup d'autres jobs dans la police qu'ils peuvent faire. So I think we need to work backwards a little bit before we can look forward. So one of the things we did at the beginning of the year was really thinking about why each one of them was there. We've done an episode where we showed J.J., that she came from a small town and tried to get out of a small town, almost like the Clarice Starling story; we did the episode last night with Shemar being that he was a molested child and he gets revenge by putting those kinds of guys away; we did the "Fisher King" episodes about Matthew's mother being a schizophrenic, I mean Dr. Reid, and he kind of buries himself in books to not face that reality and that he one day may be schizophrenic because it's a genetic disease. So it's much more important to us now in the show to explore why they're there now instead of where they're going. Donc je pense que nous avons besoin de travailler d'abord sur leur passé avant de regarder en avant. Donc l'une des premières choses que nous avons faite au début de l'année a été de nous demander pourquoi ils sont là. Nous avons fait un épisode sur J.J., qu vient d'une petite ville et a essayé de sortir de ce bled, presque comme l'histoire de Clarice Starling. Nous avons fait un épisode où Shemar a été un enfant maltraité et prend sa revanche en arrêtant ce genre de criminel, nous avons fait "the fisher king" à propos de la mère schizophrène de Matthew, je veux dire Reid, et comment il s'est lui-même jeté dans les livres pour ne pas avoir à faire face à cette réalité et le fait qu'un jour il pourrait être à son tour schizophrène car c'est une maladie génétique. Ainsi, c'est bien plus important pour nous dans la série, pour le moment, d'explorer pourquoi ils sont là à présent plutôt que de savoir où ils vont.
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Nombre de messages : 2864 Date de naissance : 04/09/1997 Age : 27 Localisation : *Somewhere* Personnage préféré : Emily Prentiss Loisirs : les arts du cirque, regarder la télé, mes amies, lire, écrire, usw Date d'inscription : 21/07/2006
| Sujet: Re: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Dim 4 Fév 2007 - 22:08 | |
| BFS: Do you have any favorites? Are there any characters that speak to you more? Est-ce que vous avez des favoris ? Est-ce qu'il ya des personnages dont vous vous sentez plus proche ?EB: I love them all. I believe that any good drama is a family and you either accept or reject that family, not the show. You can have 10 shows of the same genre and if people like the family... "ER's" a great example. It's a family. It was in the middle of a hospital but it was a family. You either like the mother, the three brothers and the father or you don't. And our show is very much that. In our show Mandy's the mom, the emotional center of the show, Hotch is the father, Morgan and Elle are the brother and sister and Reid is the little brother and J.J.'s the good-looking cousin who hangs around. Je les aime tous. Je pense que n'importe quel bon drama est une famille et vous acceptez ou rejetez cette famille, pas la série. Vous pouvez avoir 10 séries du même genre et si les gens aiment la famille... Urgences est un bel exemple. C'est une famille. Ca se passe au milieu d'un hôpital mais c'est une famille. Soit vous aimez la mère, les trois frères et le père, soit vous ne les aimez pas. Et notre série est comme ça. Dans notre série, Mandy est la mère, le centre émotionnel de la série, Hotch est le père, Morgan et Elle sont le frère et la soeur, Reid est le petit frère et J.J. la cousine sympa qui traîne dans le coin.And people either like that family or they don't. And I think what people are starting to respond to now is that they really like the family. So I love them all. I think they're all vitally important characters and they all... you know it's funny when you write, and not everyone writes the same way, but when I write like I sort of let the story come to me and all of our characters say just the right things and the right time. In my mind, there's always somebody to say the right thing. So I think they're all really important. They're not lacking anything, I don't think we have too many. We have just the right amount of people and personalities. Et soit les gens aiment cette famille, soit ils ne l'aiment pas. Et ce que les gens nous répondent en ce moment c'est qu'ils aiment vraiment cette famille. Donc je les aime tous. Je pense que les personnages sont tous extrêmement importants et tous... Vous savez c'est marrant quand j'écris je laisse l'histoire venir à moi et tous nos personnages disent exactement ce qu'il faut au bon moment. Dans mon esprit, il y a toujours quelqu'un pour dire ce qu'il faut. Donc je pense qu'il sont tous très importants. Aucun ne manque et nous n'en avons aucun en trop. Nous avons juste la bonne quantité de personnes et de personnalités.So I love the characters, I love all the actors too - it's a really good family. We're very much a family environment here. We're setting up downstairs for a Christmas party and all the producers have to dress up in costumes so everybody can laugh at us. I'm going to be Santa Claus, everybody's going to be elves. It's really just a big family that we have here. And I think that it transfers to the screen. Donc j'aime ces personnages, j'aime les acteurs aussi. C'est vraiment une bonne famille. Nous avons vraiment un environnement familial ici. Nous allons nous installer en bas des escaliers (?) pour une fête de Noël et tous les producteurs devront se déguiser ainsi tout le monde pourra rire de nous. Je serai le père Noël et tous les autres seront les elfes. C'est vraiment une grande famille que nous avons là. Et je pense que cela transparaît à l'écran.BFS: So in the end, what do you think you'll take away from this show that's unique as compared to "Third Watch" or "Brooklyn South" and so on? EB: Well, I'll tell you the one thing that's unique for me is "Third Watch" was filmed in New York and written and produced here, the writing and the post-production here. I was never involved as intensely in production daily as I am now. And I gotta tell ya, it's a lot of work. Two or three times a month I would fly to New York for four or five days, I spent a lot of time there but it's different being what - 100 feet away from the set. And the actors are running up all the time. It's pretty intense but I just love it. It's one of those things where you go, "God help me, I love this." I love the hours, I love the vibrancy of it. I love creating things that I know that people are going to see in a couple of weeks. Now we're doing an episode that's following the Super Bowl. Like I said, this could potentially be the greatest night of my life - the Bears could be in the Super Bowl, or God forbid, win the Super Bowl, and then my show immediately follows the Super Bowl. I almost have to walk into the ocean and die the next day. BFS: So how did that phone call go? Was it Les [Moonves] who told you? EB: Well it was Rosemary [Tarquinio] who is our direct CBS executive. And we had just come off our highest numbers of the year - like two or three weeks ago. And she called me about that, they always call me up at 7:00 the next morning. And she said, "I have something to tell you with David Bromfield," who's the boss of television over there. I was like, "uh-oh, don't tell me we had our highest numbers ever and we're canceled." She goes, "No, no, it's good news." And you know what they did, they didn't call me [back] for a day. Because I think what they had to do is someone went "hey, did we tell all the other shows?" You know like the "C.S.I.s" because they're the heavy hitters. So then they called me the next day and I thought they were kidding. I would have bet that it would have been "C.S.I." or something like that and they said "no, this actually came directly from Les, that he wants this to be the show that follows the Super Bowl." It's just incredible, such an incredible feeling. It's what made "Grey's Anatomy" number one. And we were like number four last week already and now we have the potential to be the number one show on television and that's just incredible to even consider. Because nobody ever goes in thinking that's ever possible. So many things have to go right. Because if you really kind of have to work for that, you're going to be eternally disappointed. So it's incredibly exciting and humbling. I just am so grateful to Les and Nina Tassler to even think about putting us there. BFS: So are you using one of your already planned episodes or starting from scratch for the Super Bowl? EB: We came up with a whole new episode although the next one up [that would have aired that week] is going to be great too. We wanted to tailor something to the Super Bowl. So we've come up with a whole new episode that's a two-part episode that leads into Wednesday night from Sunday night, you know, try to transfer some of that audience into our regular night. When it actually starts, you think you're still watching the Super Bowl and we pull back off a television at a Super Bowl party so we're really kind of tailoring it to that night, to sort of continue to magic that is the Super Bowl, that the Bears are going to win. [Laughs.] BFS: Finally, at the end of the day - what's it like to do this every day, to have your own show? EB: Well, first off I don't try to make it my own show. Truly, if I had to come here every day and think of it as my show and I was the guy, I think I'd lose my mind. There's just way too much to do. I have incredible people that work on this show, incredible artists in every facet who I trust completely. So, to answer your question, I love every day. I feel lucky. And the interesting thing is we try very hard to keep it exactly the same today as it was at the beginning of the season before we were this super rising show. Cause you know, we still have to make the show, we've still got to do the work. We try not to get too excited or too depressed when the critics don't like us - we still have to make the show. And if you truly aren't making it for yourself, then none of that stuff really matters. So the fact that our numbers go up every week is gratifying but it's not why I do it. I'm excited people are watching. It's no different than being on a show like "Third Watch" which I'm just as proud of and didn't have as many viewers. I just try to never forget how lucky I am to do this. I've been a cop. I've been shot at. I've had to wrestle people for my gun in an alley. This is pretty fucking special to do this for a living. And get paid a lot more than cops do. Source : http://www.thefutoncritic.com/rant.aspx?id=20070202 | |
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Nombre de messages : 2864 Date de naissance : 04/09/1997 Age : 27 Localisation : *Somewhere* Personnage préféré : Emily Prentiss Loisirs : les arts du cirque, regarder la télé, mes amies, lire, écrire, usw Date d'inscription : 21/07/2006
| Sujet: Re: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Sam 12 Juil 2008 - 21:31 | |
| Article datant de mai 2008 (attention aux spoilers saisons 3 et 4) : Il y est question du départ de Mandy Patinkin et de l'arrivée de Joe Mantegna, de la grève des scénaristes et du cliffhanger à la fin de la saison 3. Source : http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-criminal18-2008may18,0,2844745,full.story- Spoiler:
CBS' 'Criminal Minds' ends season with a bang The character in the cross hairs could be played by any in the BAU lineup, including Joe Mantegna, Thomas Gibson, Kirsten Vangsness.
By Maria Elena Fernandez, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer May 18, 2008
SOMEONE IS getting blown up.
When “Criminal Minds" ends its turbulent third season Wednesday, one of the show's seven FBI profilers will explode. Of course, who and why is a big, cliffhanger secret to be revealed next season. But the upcoming big bang is a fitting conclusion to a season in which the behind-the-scenes drama rivaled that of the show's on-screen investigators as they chased 19 episodes' worth of serial killers.
"I think we're now in Season 3.3," said actor Thomas Gibson, who plays Aaron Hotchner, the head of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, echoing the sentiment of other actors and producers who feel the season's fits and starts have made it seem as if three TV seasons -- not 10 months -- have passed.
But despite the writers strike and the sudden loss of one of the show's main stars at the beginning of this season, the CBS crime series has performed well and is one of the Top 25-rated shows in broadcast television. The Wednesday-night program has consistently drawn over 12.5 million weekly viewers this season by managing to retain much of its audience despite facing the toughest competition on television: Fox's "American Idol," which is often referred to as "The Death Star" for its merciless ability to kill off opposing programming.
Today's stable situation seemed unthinkable last summer when Mandy Patinkin, who played the show’s top profiler, Jason Gideon, abruptly left the show. The tremors began in July when Patinkin failed to attend the first table read.
The writers, who had seven scripts in the works, were forced to start from scratch as they also dealt with the creative challenge of replacing a character that had served as "the mom" of the investigative team.
"We had no indication this was going to happen," show runner and executive producer Ed Bernero said. "He called an hour before the read-through and said, 'See you in an hour.' And that's the last time we've talked with him. We thought he was in an accident. We even called the police. The minute we knew he was OK, it was, like, 'Uh, we have a problem.' "
With the clock ticking toward the season premiere, the writers also faced the retooling of an episode about a college campus shooting, which had been held out of deference to the Virginia Tech shootings in April 2007. The plan to air it sometime in the middle of the third season was made impossible with Patinkin out of the picture.
Ultimately, the writers reworked it so that it could serve as the impetus for Gideon's departure. Patinkin resurfaced long enough to film a final scene in which his character drove off to an unknown destination, after leaving a goodbye note that said: "I'm sorry the explanation couldn't be better."
The actor could have written the letter himself. Patinkin, who left without speaking to Bernero or other producers, issued a statement citing "creative reasons" for his departure. He shot his last scene with a splinter unit while the main crew worked on another episode elsewhere.
But months earlier, Patinkin had told journalists that he was becoming increasingly distressed about the violence on the show.
"As crazy as it was, I look back at that time fondly," said co-executive producer Chris Mundy. "I don't look back on Mandy's leaving fondly, but I look back on how we dealt with it fondly. We had a real feeling that our cast was so strong and the characters were so strong that it wouldn't matter. But you never know until you see it."
Although Bernero knew he needed another seasoned investigator to help guide the team, he didn't feel pressured to fill Gideon's vacancy immediately. He waited five episodes before adding David Rossi (Joe Mantegna) to the mix.
"When Mandy left, nobody said anything, but everybody was, like, 'OK, is this the beginning of the end? Do we have to go get Jack Nicholson in order to save this thing?' " said Shemar Moore, who plays Derek Morgan. "But what was nice is that we had five episodes to trust in ourselves and step up. So the writers had to parcel out the words and story and character that they would normally give to Mandy and spread it amongst us, and it gave us a new sense of confidence."
Enter Mantegna, who has wanted to settle into a TV series for some time and felt his joining the show was serendipitous because most of the crew had worked on "Joan of Arcadia," his last job as a series regular. He also hit it off instantly with Bernero, who, like him, is an Italian American from Chicago.
Mantegna had a request: that his character be an Italian American named David Rossi, after the Los Angeles Police Department watch commander who was on duty when Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were murdered in 1994. The officer's classy demeanor on the stand as O.J. Simpson's lawyers grilled him had stuck with the actor. (The real Rossi has retired to Idaho and visited the set recently.)
Bernero agreed, and the fictional Rossi became a founding member of the profilers unit who had retired early to write and lecture but had been drawn back, in part, because of a 20-year-old unsolved case that was haunting him.
"Gideon was a mother hen kind of figure to the unit, and that was nice," Mantegna said. "When they brought me in, they didn't want another mother hen. They wanted a rooster that shakes up the hen house."
Stricken by the strike
BUT JUST as the cast settled into a groove, with story lines that included viewer favorite Penelope Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness) getting shot during a blind date, the Writers Guild embarked on a three-month strike.
"That was so stressful," Bernero said. "When we returned, there was so much excitement, but then we came to the realization, 'Wow, I'm so exhausted.' It all really feels long ago. I can barely remember when Mandy was here. Joe is such a great part of the family."
Since the show returned, viewers have gained insight into Rossi's soft heart, Hotchner's divorce, Dr. Spencer Reid's (Matthew Gray Gubler) struggle with addiction, and the pregnancy of Jennifer Jareau (A.J. Cook, who returned from the strike in the same condition). The "24"-style season finale (it will even have split screens) required the building of a replica New York subway station because filming on a Los Angeles Metro line didn't cut it.
"That's how you know the difference between a hit show and one that's not," Mantegna said. "When you can build a subway station like that in one week."
The heart-thumping finale begins with a Son of Sam-style story that evolves into perhaps the most complex and dangerous probe the unit has encountered. When it began filming last month, virtually no one on-set knew which character would be in the blast.
"Someone is in grave danger," Mundy teased.
"It will be huge and costly," Bernero added.
"I'm hoping they're not taking out the new guy. That's all I gotta say," pleaded Mantegna, aware that the procedural drama had already lost two main characters. Lola Glaudini left after the first season, making room for Paget Brewster.
The team leader countered: "The new guy hasn't been around long enough to get kicked around enough," Gibson said. "We gotta kick him around a bit before we blow him up."
With no evidence in hand, the people who play profilers for a living were left to, well, profile.
"If they show the hand turning the ignition, then you could figure out woman, man, black, white," Vangsness said. "But they don't show you that. I don't want anyone I know to blow up."
Gubler joked (or did he?) that he had seen the crew passing out a black severed arm. "I think Shemar is black. But then again, I don't know -- maybe they were messing with me. Maybe they wanted me to see that so I would figure I was safe."
Moore's take on the mystery: "I don't know if it's for dramatic effect or if they're trying to keep us from renegotiating. We all bought new cars this year. Let's see who's going to be first to return to the dealer."
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| | | Manon...Gray Gubler?? Jack l'Eventreur
Nombre de messages : 11577 Date de naissance : 09/06/1993 Age : 31 Localisation : Belgique ;-) Personnage préféré : Spencer Reid Loisirs : Photoshop, écrire des fanfictions, regarder CM et TBBT! :D Date d'inscription : 01/12/2006
| Sujet: Re: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Dim 13 Juil 2008 - 11:11 | |
| J'adore ce que disent MGG et Shemar... et légère touche d'humour... Merci pour l'article! | |
| | | KaliWeir S.S.A.
Nombre de messages : 2141 Date de naissance : 31/10/1987 Age : 37 Localisation : Marseille Personnage préféré : Emily/Derek Loisirs : La Prentissologie Date d'inscription : 12/10/2008
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| Sujet: Re: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Mer 10 Déc 2008 - 22:41 | |
| Supers photos et article... Elles sont magnifiques toutes les 3... |
| | | Matthew&Mika Incendiaire
Nombre de messages : 1325 Date de naissance : 24/10/1994 Age : 30 Localisation : Chez Moi ! =D Personnage préféré : Reid,et toute l'équipe <3 Date d'inscription : 23/10/2008
| Sujet: Re: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Mer 10 Déc 2008 - 22:45 | |
| Elles sont superbes, mais c'est quand qui font ça avec les 4 mecs | |
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| Sujet: Re: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Mer 10 Déc 2008 - 22:55 | |
| Mdr je me suis dit la même chose |
| | | anthony258 Schizophrène
Nombre de messages : 6582 Date de naissance : 24/11/1990 Age : 33 Localisation : Pink City :D Personnage préféré : SSA David Rossi Loisirs : Dessin, infographisme Date d'inscription : 27/10/2008
| Sujet: Re: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Ven 24 Juil 2009 - 11:38 | |
| Je sais pas si ça a déjà été posté ailleurs m'enfin, je les met ici! Article venant de TV GUIDE!!! Y'a pas à dire il est super ce mag! | |
| | | KaliWeir S.S.A.
Nombre de messages : 2141 Date de naissance : 31/10/1987 Age : 37 Localisation : Marseille Personnage préféré : Emily/Derek Loisirs : La Prentissologie Date d'inscription : 12/10/2008
| Sujet: Re: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Jeu 10 Sep 2009 - 0:49 | |
| Nouvel article provenant de TV Guide | |
| | | anthony258 Schizophrène
Nombre de messages : 6582 Date de naissance : 24/11/1990 Age : 33 Localisation : Pink City :D Personnage préféré : SSA David Rossi Loisirs : Dessin, infographisme Date d'inscription : 27/10/2008
| Sujet: Re: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Jeu 10 Sep 2009 - 6:20 | |
| Merci Kali!! | |
| | | cell Incendiaire
Nombre de messages : 1478 Date de naissance : 05/01/1989 Age : 35 Localisation : Avec toute la Team CM ^^ Personnage préféré : Reid,Emily Date d'inscription : 17/05/2009
| Sujet: Re: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Jeu 10 Sep 2009 - 9:09 | |
| merci pour le scan Kali ! | |
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| Sujet: Re: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Jeu 10 Sep 2009 - 9:22 | |
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| | | Chooky George Foyet
Nombre de messages : 13135 Date de naissance : 30/09/1989 Age : 35 Localisation : Là où l'on peut voir la mer sans fin... Personnage préféré : Hotch *-* Loisirs : Fofo, moto et Calo :-) Date d'inscription : 03/03/2009
| Sujet: Re: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Jeu 10 Sep 2009 - 9:38 | |
| Wahou merciii il n'est pas très long mais il y a quelques trucs intéressants là dedans!! et puis c'est une interview de Thomas en majorité donc j'aimeuuuuuh | |
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| Sujet: Re: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Jeu 10 Sep 2009 - 11:48 | |
| Super article, d'ailleurs TVguide c'est lâché aussi sur les autres articles des autres séries, avec de supers photos...Bref, j'aimerais savoir qui va avoir une intrigue personelle amoureuse ?????????? Ahhhh et qu'il est beau Thomas |
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Nombre de messages : 13135 Date de naissance : 30/09/1989 Age : 35 Localisation : Là où l'on peut voir la mer sans fin... Personnage préféré : Hotch *-* Loisirs : Fofo, moto et Calo :-) Date d'inscription : 03/03/2009
| Sujet: Re: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Jeu 10 Sep 2009 - 12:00 | |
| Bah pas Hotch déjà peut être Morgan alors, avec la femme qui est là pour quelques épisodes on verra bien Et je n'osais pas le dire pour ne pas m'afficher de partout... mais c'est clair qu'il est beau!!!! la classe intégrale! | |
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| Sujet: Re: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Jeu 10 Sep 2009 - 12:21 | |
| Lol moi je m'affiche, Hotch' est MAGNIFIQUE Moi j'aimerais voir Emily dans une relation, Morgan pourquoi pas et Reid aussi mais je vote Emily mdr!!! |
| | | KaliWeir S.S.A.
Nombre de messages : 2141 Date de naissance : 31/10/1987 Age : 37 Localisation : Marseille Personnage préféré : Emily/Derek Loisirs : La Prentissologie Date d'inscription : 12/10/2008
| Sujet: Re: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Jeu 10 Sep 2009 - 13:25 | |
| Moi aussi j'espère que c'est Emily | |
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| | | Nanouille Agent Fédéral
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| Sujet: Re: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Jeu 10 Sep 2009 - 15:58 | |
| Je voudrais bien que ce soit Emily, d'autant plus qu'on sait qu'elle aimerait bien avoir des enfants, or une femme ça peut pas attendre indéfiniment comme un homme. Mais apparemment ce serait Morgan. La fille en question ne me plait pas pour l'instant mais on verra ce que vont faire les scénaristes avec ça. | |
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Nombre de messages : 719 Date de naissance : 13/05/1990 Age : 34 Localisation : Luxembourg Personnage préféré : Mister Derek Morgan Loisirs : CM mais aussi la photographie et la mode Date d'inscription : 07/05/2008
| Sujet: Re: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Jeu 10 Sep 2009 - 20:10 | |
| Sympa l'article! Par contre pour la love story, je vois bien Morgan! | |
| | | anthony258 Schizophrène
Nombre de messages : 6582 Date de naissance : 24/11/1990 Age : 33 Localisation : Pink City :D Personnage préféré : SSA David Rossi Loisirs : Dessin, infographisme Date d'inscription : 27/10/2008
| Sujet: Re: Esprits Criminels dans la presse Jeu 10 Sep 2009 - 20:19 | |
| Je n'ai pas encore eu le temps de lire l'article mais d'après ce que vous en dites, ils palent d'une love story pour un des membres?? Dans tous les cas, même si je ne vois pas encore pour qui cela va être, c'est une bonne idée je trouve, car un peu de piment dans la vie sentimentale des membres du BAU c'est toujours sympa à voir! | |
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