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I've seen the wire at least 5 times straight through, but I never thought about this until now because of the McNulty/Stringer chat. As we all know, during the courtroom scene in the first episode, String holds up a drawing proclaiming "gently caress you detective" for McNulty to see. Later in the episode we learn that McNulty already had knowledge about the Barksdale gang, even though no other police officer had a clue who even Avon was at that time. So, the question I have is how does Stringer, at that time, know that McNulty is a detective? Did they have a run-in during the events before the show began? I may be mistaken, but I don't recall this ever being brought up in the show. McNulty just seems to have put the connection together on his own, yet how does Stringer know he's a cop?
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The amount of money made is relative to the quantity of product initially purchased. If it's just some corner hustler that picked up one package at a time, that person might be doubling their money, whereas a large organization is picking up the equivalent of, say, hundreds of packages at a time is going to get their supply at a much cheaper rate, which enables them to make 4-5-? times as much.
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TheBalor posted:The funny thing is, there was a journalist who watched the season five Wire premier with several current and former NYC drug lords. After watching the scene where Marlo was tossing poo poo around in the co-op meeting, they immediately declared that Marlo was not to be trusted, and that if Prop Joe didn't have him killed ASAP he was a fool. Link for reference (at least I assume this is what you're talking about): http://freakonomics.com/2008/01/09/what-do-real-thugs-think-of-the-wire/
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Nov 27, 2013 02:47
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Ainsley McTree posted:Well. For someone who murders people for drug money. All in the game, yo
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Dec 3, 2013 22:59
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Interesting article about the sound editing of The Wire: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat...isrc=burger_bar
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Pretty sure I just saw Wallace in a trailer for a Zach Efron movie and I'm not sure how I feel about that...
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Jan 6, 2014 16:15
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Domenick Lombardozzi seems to pop up in various shows and movies occasionally, though nothing particularly memorable. Wood Harris and his brother are gonna be in the upcoming season of Justified.
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cletepurcel posted:Wasn't there a quote from one of the sound people where he said they put the train noises in the background whenever the progress of a case was being impeded? That would be it in both instances. It was McNulty, and an interesting thing about that scene that I read somewhere is that the train passing by wasn't planned in advance. Dominic West ad-libbed jumping away at the last minute. The train was just a regular train that just happened to be passing by at the time, and behind the scenes the crew was freaking out because they thought West was going to be hit.
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wormil posted:Hmmm. Sandkings (as published in Omni) helped get me into science fiction when I was a kid and I'm sure I've read other Martin but I haven't read GOT, will put it on my list. If you're looking for a new series and you haven't seen Deadwood, I would highly suggest that. Oz is good, but gets pretty weird and unbelievable at times, especially towards the end of the series. Still, definitely worth a watch.
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It was intentionally shot with a 4:3 aspect ratio, so there won't ever be a version in 16:9. IIRC, they even considered switching formats when 16:9 became the standard around maybe season 3 but it was thought that the change would take away from the feel of the show.
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Aug 28, 2014 21:47
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Aishan posted:It's never outright stated, but it's insinuated that when he was younger and lot more foolish he pocketed money seized from drug raids, much like we see Herc and Carver doing during the series. Burrell brings it up more than once during his imminent firing and states it as fact in at least one scene that Daniels was once part of a unit in the Western that was investigated for embezzling money.
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gently caress trophy 2k14 posted:Oh wow who'd have thought Baltimore still looks poor. Hell, I'm surprised most of those places still look as "good" as they do.
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NOTinuyasha posted:Mouzone's 'slow train coming' scene still makes me wonder. What (metaphorical) train? Slow? Where is it coming to? In context he's probably just mocking the city's attempts at reform but the dialog is sort of a mindfuck. I took that more to mean progress is a slow train coming, but I guess reform works too.
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I just assumed the shot was framed that way to keep the sun from blinding the camera.
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After completing my 11th rewatch of The Wire a few weeks ago, I started going through ESPN's 30 for 30 series on Netflix, and tonight I watched the Randy Moss episode titled Rand University. As the narrator started speaking, I thought, "that sounds like Omar". Sure enough, Michael Kenneth Williams was the narrator. Funny enough, I also kept thinking, "man, Randy Moss sounds just like senator Clay Davis." He speaks briefly in this preview clip. Anyone else hear it? It comes out more in the full episode, but I just thought it was weird that the whole time watching it, all I could think about was Omar and Clay Davis. http://youtu.be/ES5HPkICZtY empty baggie fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Sep 24, 2015 |
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The actor who played Bodie is in that new show " The Night Of". I don't know if he's going to be in more than the first episode, but he does a pretty good job playing a character that isn't too different from Bodie.
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Yeah, the pilot episode of "The Night Of" was really drat good. Really hope they keep that level of quality going.
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awesmoe posted:If business is going smoothly it's because he's successfully moving sex slaves (and drugs) across the atlantic All in the game, yo
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Ha! Omar is in "the night of". Got a mini Wire reunion started. E: and Michael K Williams off to a good start, and 3 episodes in of "The Night Of" keeping up with the quality of the first episode like I had hoped. empty baggie fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Jul 25, 2016 |
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Jul 25, 2016 01:59
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"The Night Of" is based off of a British show, so I'm avoiding spoilers because the show is that good so far. I'm sure bodies actor will play a part in later episodes, but Michael K Williams killed it in his new role last night and I can't wait to see where they take his character. Sorry to keep bringing it up in this thread when the show has its own going, but so far it's been really quality television and while not really like the wire, there's definitely a crossover audience considering how it portrays the judicial system so accurately (so far).
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1-800-DOCTORB posted:
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3832342&perpage=40
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deoju posted:Crab chips, and scrapple are some poo poo I can't get in Wisconsin. boner confessor posted:yeah that's method man, wu-tang clan member who has built an acting career Method Man is in both shows, but that’s not him on the bench in the Deuce. That’s another rapper, Black Thought from the Roots, that plays Buddy Love. Method Man plays Rodney, the pimp with the straight hair. empty baggie fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Oct 18, 2017 |
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Oct 18, 2017 21:53
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Where's Wallace, Simon? Where's Wallace?
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Mar 10, 2018 22:46
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Hasselblad posted:Waterboy was on last night. D'Angelo was one of the players and was named Wallace. He also performed Down In the Hole for the 5th season credit song.
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May 19, 2018 00:47
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Yeah, McNulty pushed Bodies storyline along, but realistically, knowing what we know about the characters, even if McNutty hadn’t ever gotten involved, Marlo would have soon enough had Bodie killed for some other reason.
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Jul 15, 2018 03:37
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That’s that bollymore accent.
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Jul 4, 2019 00:04
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Just watched The Irishman, and I knew Herc was Fat Tony just from the voice. They really went all out changing his face.
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I’m pretty sure I even saw pictures of him in makeup during filming, but the final product is crazy. I knew it was him from his voice, but other than his frame, he was almost totally unrecognizable.
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Nov 29, 2019 03:01
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Yeah, his kicking in that scene was very unconvincing. I had heard that they brought in people to help with posture so everyone wouldn't look like 80 year olds when they were trying to play someone in their 40's, but that scene made it really obvious.
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Michael Kostroff (Maury Levy) is also currently in the HBO show “The Plot Against America”. E: he was also in The Deuce, so I guess David Simon likes him. empty baggie fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Apr 13, 2020 |
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Syrian Lannister posted:I was always under the assumption she was an attorney, which is why she pushed for him to get his JD. I thought this as well.
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He's also Wags from Billions.
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I associate OZ actor crossover more with Law & Order than the Wire, but I guess that's because both OZ and L&O were airing at the same time, but there were a lot of the same actors in both shows.
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