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MC Fruit Stripe posted:There's a small bit part in a couple of episodes, so I looked up the character, then looked up the actor to see what else he's in. The reason I'm being so needlessly vague is because the first result for a google on his name, is his own Facebook page. Like, not a fan page, I mean it's just, the guy. I think that's pretty funny - since they used so many local and small players, these are people with lives and responsibilities. If that's something that's okay to post I'll link it, but it's nothing particularly noteworthy, just a "hey, it's him". Chris Partlow will talk to you on Twitter. I've also had extensive conversations with Dukie. He thoroughly enjoyed when I said "yo, Duke, man, you scared away the birds"
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Brodie's one of the most depressing deaths in the entire series. Especially when you remember that even Pootmanaged to get out of the game and start shilling at the local footlocker. Bodie 
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SpookyLizard posted:Brodie's one of the most depressing deaths in the entire series. Especially when you remember that even Pootmanaged to get out of the game and start shilling at the local footlocker. Bodie Bodie But I think Poot's exit from the game had a lot to deal with Bodie's death. Remember, he remained in the game briefly after that. Which begs the question, how did Marlo let one of his crew members just disappear? Presumably because he had too much heat on the bodies at the time, and had to lay low. Plus Poot never crossed him otherwise.
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Jan 25, 2013 01:35
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Was that the order it happened? I don't remember exactly how it went, it's been a while since I got all the way through the series. I have his horrendous habit of having to start from the beginning of the series.
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Jan 25, 2013 01:37
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SpookyLizard posted:Was that the order it happened? I don't remember exactly how it went, it's been a while since I got all the way through the series. I have his horrendous habit of having to start from the beginning of the series. Yeah, I have seen it 3/4 times... I'm drat near a Wire savant. Remember, Poot tried to save Bodie from his inevitable murder "Bodie you better run yo. . . Bodie, come on man...) That was the Season 4 finale. We don't see Poot until Season 5, Episode 8, the 3rd to last episode of the whole show. Don't fret on your memory. I have the memory of an elephant, despite all the time I spend trying to erase and repress my memories.
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Jan 25, 2013 02:15
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Unzip and Attack posted:I love speculating about the futures of the characters of this show. I know it's not the most practical thing to do given that the writers have said everything they want to say about them, but I can't help not imagining what McNulty or Michael do following the last credits. Perhaps the most interesting to speculate on is Marlo though - the guy has millions of dollars of clean money. Enough to get out of the game for good and live a pretty lavish lifestyle if he wants it. But all he cares about is his rep, as he shows in his last scene. I like to think that without Chris and Snoop backing him, Marlo attempts to get back in the game and gets taken out by Michael. Maybe too Hollywood I know, but that would have been a fierce showdown. Michael doesn't last long in the game. He uproots and moves to Beverly Hills to attend high school. Speculating about The Wire is always fun, though. I like to think if another season had been around it would have been about crime moving to the edges of the city and certain sections of the county, where it does go in real life. The neighborhoods The Wire plays out in had been bad for decades and the characters were born into an already hosed up environment. It would be interesting to see neighborhoods in transition and what happens when the old generation when faced with a new generation of people.
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Jan 25, 2013 02:30
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Rewatched the first episode the other day, and something occurred to me. How exactly does McNulty know about Avon? I've seen the episode three times, but it never seems explained. When questioned about it, McNulty just says "Everyone knows." But he seems to be the only guy in the whole BPD who has even heard the name.
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Jan 25, 2013 02:35
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SlimWhiskey posted:Rewatched the first episode the other day, and something occurred to me. How exactly does McNulty know about Avon? I've seen the episode three times, but it never seems explained. When questioned about it, McNulty just says "Everyone knows." But he seems to be the only guy in the whole BPD who has even heard the name. I think Avon's lack of name recognition is deliberately exaggerated to emphasize how much the BPD has gone away from actual meaningful investigations and how concentrated they are on the worthless street-level stuff. Also, I think the story is supposed to be that Avon hadn't been the king for that long before the series started. McNulty knows about him only because of the several witnesses they scared or bought away, and I think he gives Rawls like 3 or 4 names aside from the guy D killed. My guess is he saw Stringer and co in the courtroom and just did some independent work to figure out who they were.
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Jan 25, 2013 02:55
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I think it's meant to demonstrate that McNulty keeps his finger at least somewhat on the pulse of the street. Remember one of the key themes is just how detached from the street most of the organizations/bureaucracies are, particularly in season 5 when the "hero" of the newspaper fights a war over the integrity of their reporting while remaining completely ignorant of what is happening in the city as well as the MASSIVE story of the poo poo McNulty pulled. Narcotics had no idea who Avon is and they're the ones who are meant to be going after people like him. I'd say McNulty (homicide) knew because of the bodies that were dropped during Avon's rise to the top, and his investigations hitting a brick-wall where the most he could find out was that the dead people were ones who had stood in the path of what were now known as "Barksdale corners". GreenCard78 posted:Michael doesn't last long in the game. He uproots and moves to Beverly Hills to attend high school. From memory they were keen to do something about the growing Latino population in Baltimore but they were lucky to get a fifth season as it was and they admitted that neither of them (Simon or Burns) could really speak as any kind of authority on the subject, whereas between them they were experts with firsthand knowledge of the police, the politics, the newspapers and the school system. I don't know if they had any background into the docks for season 2, but they sure as hell pulled that off.
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Jan 25, 2013 03:04
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GreenCard78 posted:Michael doesn't last long in the game. He uproots and moves to Beverly Hills to attend high school. Well, I see him at least lasting as long as Omar... but then I read your joke so, never mind that. SlimWhiskey posted:Rewatched the first episode the other day, and something occurred to me. How exactly does McNulty know about Avon? I've seen the episode three times, but it never seems explained. When questioned about it, McNulty just says "Everyone knows." But he seems to be the only guy in the whole BPD who has even heard the name. Three words: he's natural poh-lice. Remember, he was aware of Anthony Little (Omar's brother) even when another great detective, Kima, hadn't the slightest clue.
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Jan 25, 2013 03:54
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Listen, Kima. Do not tell me you don't remember No-Heart Anthony. drat girl, what town you been police in all these years? Unrelated but one of the funnier things about the show is the worst performances came from the actual actors. Dominic West and his godawful accent especially. Alec Bald Snatch fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Jan 25, 2013 |
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Jan 25, 2013 04:14
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watt par posted:Listen, Kima. Do not tell me you don't remember No-Heart Anthony. drat girl, what town you been police in all these years? First comment is hilarious. But I wouldn't say McNulty is the wost character. No two ways about it. He's complex, and of course, a fan favorite. Besides he only slipped on his accent less than a half-dozen times.
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Jan 25, 2013 04:30
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escape artist posted:First comment is hilarious. In interviews he will even say he had trouble narrowing the accent down, and it really slipped out when he A) Had a British director or B) Had scenes with Idris Elba. And I love me some Idris (mmmmmmhmmmmmm) but I think it's sad he's really the only actor from this show to get stardom. Wendell Pierce and Clark Peters got to move on to Treme (and Peters is about to be my favorite bad guy on Person of Interest) and other non-locals have gotten bit parts here and there, but it feels like Dominic West pretty much disappeared from the American radar, and that makes me sad.
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Jan 25, 2013 04:44
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Check out Appropriate Adult if you get a chance, Dominic West is utterly terrifying in it.
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chesh posted:In interviews he will even say he had trouble narrowing the accent down, and it really slipped out when he A) Had a British director or B) Had scenes with Idris Elba. West plays in lovely American films... albeit usually bit parts... So take that for what its worth.
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Jan 25, 2013 05:12
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chesh posted:And I love me some Idris (mmmmmmhmmmmmm) but I think it's sad he's really the only actor from this show to get stardom. I think this was at least partly by design. Stringer needed to be played by a capital-S Star. [e: And Michael B. Jordan but his star potential didn't kick in until well post-Wallace.] spite house fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Jan 25, 2013 |
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chesh posted:In interviews he will even say he had trouble narrowing the accent down, and it really slipped out when he A) Had a British director or B) Had scenes with Idris Elba. 300, Punisher, maybe Centurion and John Carter are the only movies I'd expect most people to have seen him in recently.
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Unzip and Attack posted:Perhaps the most interesting to speculate on is Marlo though - the guy has millions of dollars of clean money. Enough to get out of the game for good and live a pretty lavish lifestyle if he wants it. But all he cares about is his rep, as he shows in his last scene. E: So apparently youtube comments are actually quite on point when it comes to discussing the wire and I just re-watched this scene. The two guys on the block are swapping tall tales about Omar, like "so Omar had an AK and was surrounded by nine guys," when Marlo walks up and asks, "do you know who I am?" He's literally walking away from a legitimate path out of the game, to look for the respect on the streets which is instantly thrown back in his face. good stuff, i've only watched the show once. cargo cult fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Jan 25, 2013 |
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Glynn Turman is Don Cheadle's father in House of Lies. I hope they expand on his character in that show because so far it's been somewhat lackluster.cargo cult posted:E: So apparently youtube comments are actually quite on point when it comes to discussing the wire and I just re-watched this scene. The two guys on the block are swapping tall tales about Omar, like "so Omar had an AK and was surrounded by nine guys," when Marlo walks up and asks, "do you know who I am?" He's literally walking away from a legitimate path out of the game, to look for the respect on the streets which is instantly thrown back in his face. good stuff, i've only watched the show once. This is one of the few times you can feel for the guy. He just wants to be known. Money is cool and all but so many of his men failed him by never telling him "let Marlo know who is loving with him!" Omar definitely wanted that known and it didn't get through but I think there were a few other characters, too.
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escape artist posted:West plays in lovely American films... albeit usually bit parts... So take that for what its worth. He's really good in Punisher: War Zone, co-starring Rome's Ray Stevenson. It's also 180 degrees away from The Wire in terms of legitimate commentary on criminal activity and the drug trade, but when a film is aiming to be the best 1980s action flick ever made, can you blame it?
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Spoilers Below posted:He's really good in Punisher: War Zone Like I said.... lovely American movies  Forgive me, not only am I a cinephile in the making, but comic book movies are something I refuse to watch.
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He's in British programing regularly. I really enjoyed the humble-rear end motherfucker with a big dick in Horrible Bosses. But it was christmas day so I'm pretty sure I'd drank enough to enjoy even Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones.
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LordPants posted:He's in British programing regularly. Hey... he ain't all the humble Anyway, one funny comment from Dominic West was that he kept trying to say "snotboogie" over and over... and despite voice coaching, it all sounded the same to him. "Snotboogie... I just said that!"
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LordPants posted:He's in British programing regularly. The Hour's alright. He's not too bad in that.
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escape artist posted:Which begs the question, how did Marlo let one of his crew members just disappear? Presumably because he had too much heat on the bodies at the time, and had to lay low. Plus Poot never crossed him otherwise. Doubt that he even knew about Poot's existence. He was just Bodie's second, just another street face to Marlo and so low that he couldn't exactly reveal anything to anyone. EDIT: About post-show hypothesizing, can you imagine how terrifying Wee-Bey and Chris in prison together, presumably working for Avon are going to be? Oz's bodycount isn't going to hold a candle when those two get going. 
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Jan 25, 2013 10:44
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DarkCrawler posted:Doubt that he even knew about Poot's existence. He was just Bodie's second, just another street face to Marlo and so low that he couldn't exactly reveal anything to anyone. He knew about Lil Kevin, Bodie's..... 3rd in line at least. Granted, Marlo doesn't take any chances when it comes to people disrespecting his name or spending 36 hours in police custody, although Kevin's downfall was not following Marlo's exact orders
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Jan 25, 2013 10:58
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Wood Harris' career might be on the upswing again. At least he's starting to do bigger things then tv guest spots now.
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Zythrst posted:Wood Harris' career might be on the upswing again. At least he's starting to do bigger things then tv guest spots now. He deserves it. I can't imagine anybody playing Avon but him, and he did one hell of a job, and stood out, despite the cast being flush with extraordinary talent. Last I heard he we doing some B or C movie... They actually let you walk on the set, that's how far he fell.
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The worst thing is Andre Royo apparently being condemned to get bit parts forever, despite his amazing work in the Wire. It seriously blows my mind that an actor with his charisma and comedic timing doesn't have a regular gig in something.
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escape artist posted:He deserves it. I can't imagine anybody playing Avon but him, and he did one hell of a job, and stood out, despite the cast being flush with extraordinary talent. Last I heard he we doing some B or C movie... They actually let you walk on the set, that's how far he fell. Ehhhh I like the actor, love Avon. His acting range hasn't seemed to break the Avon mold in the things I've seen him in. I've got season one ready to start my fifth or sixth rewatch of the series. I had been (re)watching Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU and saw pretty much everyone from The Wire except McNulty, Sidnor, and Lester. Bunk will be in next weeks Suits if anyone is interested.
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Aren't a lot of those guys largely stage actors? I know Prez is a member of Steppenwolf in Chicago. Law & Order is pretty much a Broadway actor side gig farm system. Alec Bald Snatch fucked around with this message at 13:54 on Jan 25, 2013 |
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Protocol 5 posted:The worst thing is Andre Royo apparently being condemned to get bit parts forever, despite his amazing work in the Wire. It seriously blows my mind that an actor with his charisma and comedic timing doesn't have a regular gig in something. I saw him in The Collection recently and he has only 1 or 2 lines, so to me he was still Bubbles. A flak-jacketed, machine gun toting Bubbles that gets a meathook through the face. Very disturbing to see that happen to Bubbles.
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Basebf555 posted:I saw him in The Collection recently and he has only 1 or 2 lines, so to me he was still Bubbles. A flak-jacketed, machine gun toting Bubbles that gets a meathook through the face. Very disturbing to see that happen to Bubbles. Well if he kept firing off like that, he was bound to fall out someday.
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Boywhiz88 posted:Well if he kept firing off like that, he was bound to fall out someday. You're thinking of Johnny. He was given this advice by two elder heroin addicts, and well... and it's slamming poo poo like that. Sorry, I'm a Wire savant... and sure enough, Bubbles and the unnamed elder heroin addict were drat right. They even used the same wording-- if not the same advice verbatim-- when speaking to him. Sadly, they were both right. Also, Andre Royo had an amazing, albeit brief, cameo in Bob's Burgers a few weeks back. The nude beach episode. "Hi, I'm Andre Royo, better known as Bubbles from The Wire, but today I am here to talk about a different kind of bubbles-- soap bubbles-- you need to wash your hands to to the count of 1,000..." So out of the blue and hilarious for Wire fans. I can't find it on Youtube, though. escape artist fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Jan 25, 2013 |
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What's everyones favorite opening theme variation? Two is perfect to me and really captures the melancholy/dock feeling. One is a classic, of course. I'm not the biggest fan of five.
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Jan 25, 2013 16:54
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Four, strangely enough. It fits the darkness of Season 4 (and has a bitching guitar solo).
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Season 3 for me is by far the best. Not only do I have a shameful love for the Neville Brothers, the credits themselves feature my favorite little clip in all the opening credits, Major Colvin donning his police hat while walking by a slide show of crime stats. That shot speaks volumes and having Aaron Neville going on in the background is just perfect.
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Andre Royo, Method Man (Cheese), and Tristan Wilds (Michael) were all in a pretty awful movie called Red Tails last year. For me season 1 is the best by itself, but I really like every rendition when I'm watching the season in question. The Wire is one of the few shows that I actually watch the opening credits every time.
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One is the best for (Blind Boys of Alabama) and two is pretty great since it's actually the Tom Waits version.
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Protocol 5 posted:The worst thing is Andre Royo apparently being condemned to get bit parts forever, despite his amazing work in the Wire. It seriously blows my mind that an actor with his charisma and comedic timing doesn't have a regular gig in something. He was in an episode of Criminal Minds as a killer. He had no lines. He was goddamn awesome.
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