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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold and Silver Juniors, Mid-tiers and Producers
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To: koan who wrote (45848)7/28/2007 11:37:40 AM
From: LoneClone  Read Replies (3) of 78426
 
My younger days spent working in construction and on the oil rigs cured me of any foibles about language.

One evening sitting in the bar in Fort St. John in the middle of the oil patch in northern BC, I spent a little time counting the f-bombs being dropped around me. The two guys at the next table were averaging 1.4 per sentence.

I and several of my friends had the same initial reaction to the language in Deadwood, but stick with it and you will soon become acclimatized. The rewards are worth it, believe me -- IMO Deadwood is the best United Statian television series since the early seasons of the brilliant Homicide: Life on The Streets.

The acting matches anything you will see in cinema or on the stage, and the portrayal of the tensions between the individual and the greater good is riveting and cuts to the heart of the United Statian dilemma.

Theis is actualized in the character of Al Swearingen, whose basic humanity leads him to work so hard towards the imposition of an order that will spell his own demise due to his brutal other side, He is a tragic figure of Shakespearian proportions, a part that any actor would kill to play.

And the language, profanity included, is as beautifully written as any I have run across, revealing the paucity of modern discourse. When Swearingen begins speechifying, you can't take your eyes off him.

LC
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