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| 09-01-17 01:12pm - 2669 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Darius (0)
Suspended  Posts: 46 Registered: Aug 11, '16 |
THE DEUCE - UPCOMING HBO PORN HISTORY DRAMA SO ... Next week, HBO will present 8 episodes of a period drama entitled The Deuce. It tells the story of the legalization and ensuing rise of the porn industry in New York beginning in the 1970s. From the creator of The Wire, David Simon And staring some pretty big names like James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal. I'm stoked. Anyone else planning on watching this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deuce_(TV_series) -D | |
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| 10-12-17 10:18am - 2628 days | #2 | |
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mbaya (0)
Suspended  Posts: 891 Registered: Jul 07, '08 Location: new jersey |
I have watched all the episodes so far and find it very interesting. I think it is well done in a Hollywood sort of way, but not terribly realistic. I worked in the area depicted from 1968 until 1983. Everyday and every evening I had to walk through it in order to get home. I see some things in the show that could not possibly be accurate. Maggie Gyllenhall as a street prostitute? She looks her age, which is forty, and would be unable to make enough to afford an apartment for herself and support for her son. She would have had very little success as the market at that time in that place was in women half her age. Many were on drugs, but many also were under 20 and still had their youthful bloom. At her age and looks, she would have been lucky to get earnings at all. As if that was not enough, a pimp is constantly asking her to work for him. Really? He even made a statement to her that if she and he had a deal they could own the street. Pure Hollywood fantasy. I could go on and on. There are no hotels on the other side of the Hudson in New Jersey that had a thriving sex trade. There was a scene that depended on this being true. Traffic on 42nd St. was, always was and is now so dense that pimps could never find parking to watch their girls and johns could never make deals from their cars.The area was one of foot traffic, not cars for meeting up with prostitutes. For now I will not say more. Interesting show, but it is Hollywood fiction. | |
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| 10-12-17 10:46am - 2628 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
HOLLYWOOD FICTION. THAT'S WHY THEY STATE AT THE BEGINNING OF A LOT OF MOVIES: "BASED ON TRUE EVENTS". 1% FACT, 99% HOLLYWOOD SPIN, TO MAKE TO MAKE IT MORE COMMERCIAL. | |
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| 10-12-17 10:54am - 2628 days | #4 | |
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merc77 (0)
Disabled User Posts: 291 Registered: Apr 17, '16 |
The following series is based on a true story. Half truths and lies have been made up to make the story more interesting. "Dogs think people are Gods. Cats don't as they know better." - Kedi (2016) Dogs have masters; Cats have staff. | |
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| 10-12-17 01:46pm - 2628 days | #5 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
THE TRUE STORY IS THAT NEW YORK IS THE LAND OF PIMPS AND WHORES. WHICH I ALREADY KNEW. BUT IT'S NICE THAT HBO IS CONFIRMING THAT FACT WITH A DRAMA.  | |
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| 10-12-17 05:22pm - 2628 days | #6 | |
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jook (0)
Active User  Posts: 325 Registered: Dec 22, '13 Location: jersey city |
I love this show to pieces. I grew up in the NY era depicted and SHAMEFULLY (sic) indulged in much of the debauchery. I was a regular at Times Square. While it's easy to nit pick about some of the unrealistic and untrue scenarios, and there are plenty of those, the scenery alone is worth the price of admission. I found it to be mostly realistic. My big complaint is that they minimized the plight of the women, most of whom were heroin addicts. The pimps held power over them by getting them addicted and dependent on them. However, the show glosses over that. My other complaint is the story line which is borderline preposterous. It sure as hell is no Wire. However, the scenery alone is worth tuning in. | |
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| 10-12-17 06:50pm - 2628 days | #7 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I have been following this series since day one and I can't say how accurate it is but the one thing that I can say for sure is that it's a very long commercial for cigarettes. I'm not sure how much money the tobacco industry paid HBO to produce this series but it has to be millions. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 10-19-17 08:16am - 2621 days | #8 | |
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iknowwazzup (0)
Active User  Posts: 132 Registered: Jan 06, '16 Location: United States |
Well, I think that in this day and age, it gets a bit complicated to depict exploitation of any group of people without risking offending someone who will feel as if you painted too many individuals all with the same powerless victim brush. Also, TV audiences seem fine with "gritty drama" as long as it doesn't cross the line into uncomfortably realistic for more than five minutes at a time. If things get too icky, as a showrunner, you're not going to maintain that certain level of viewership you need just to stay on the air. Anyway, I wasn't sure that I was going to watch it. But since you described it as visually worth a look, I will probably give it a chance. I was a bit concerned, though, that they'd overdo the setting. Like I found "I'm Dying Up Here" tried way too hard to make everything super 70s. And I was pretty young during that decade, but I still know that not every dude was wearing a bad feathered wig and fake mustache. | |
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