TV's Antiterror Evolution [JuicyCouture]
In 2001, before al Qaeda attacked the U.S., Mr. Gordon was working on "Ball and Chain," a pilot for Fox about a couple with superhuman powers. Then the network called to say Fox was dropping his show and going with "24," created by Bob Cochran and outspoken conservative Joel Surnow. They wanted to bring Mr. Gordon on board. He watched the pilot that day—"unbelievable," in a good way—and was sold. "I got the call on a Friday,Fashion Dresses had coffee with Joel and Bob Saturday, and was on the show by Monday."A few weeks before the "24″ premiere, the 9/11 attacks occurred. "It changed everything. The Earth tilted and it never has righted itself," says Mr. Gordon. "So '24′ was created 9/11, not after it, but it certainly influenced the way we wrote it and the way people watched it was profoundly affected by this fact."
The show, starring Kiefer Sutherland as superagent Jack Bauer, who stops at nothing to prevent terror attacks,Fashion Dresses would help define the post-9/11 era, dramatizing the still-furious debate about the proper balance between civil liberties and national security during wartime. It ran for eight seasons and won 20 Emmys.Mr. Gordon was already a seasoned writer and producer when he joined "24," but the burdens of making entertainment about a war the U.S.Fashion Dresses is still fighting are different than those of, say, "The X-Files" or "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," two of his previous efforts. "I didn't have any vampires or aliens to talk to, so the research is a little different," he quips, but the bigger difference is that the plots of "24″ and "Homeland" resonate with real life.
"I think after 9/11 we all were afraid and angry at the terrorists and angry at the bureaucracy that had the failure of imagination and the intelligence gap and couldn't put the pieces together," he says. "I think people watch that—whether it was consciously or not—and got behind Jack in a different way than they would had 9/11 not happened." At least that was the case until,Fashion Dresses as Mr. Gordon delicately puts it, "history and current events . . . happened to the show.""There was no mention of Jack Bauer's methods prior to Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo," Mr. Gordon says. After those events, "I think whatever wish fulfillment Jack represented became . . . darker, took on a darker complexion."That's an understatement. By 2007, Newsweek had dubbed the hit a "neocon sex fantasy." Jack Bauer suddenly wasn't a gritty hero but Dick Cheney in a leather jacket.
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The show, starring Kiefer Sutherland as superagent Jack Bauer, who stops at nothing to prevent terror attacks,Fashion Dresses would help define the post-9/11 era, dramatizing the still-furious debate about the proper balance between civil liberties and national security during wartime. It ran for eight seasons and won 20 Emmys.Mr. Gordon was already a seasoned writer and producer when he joined "24," but the burdens of making entertainment about a war the U.S.Fashion Dresses is still fighting are different than those of, say, "The X-Files" or "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," two of his previous efforts. "I didn't have any vampires or aliens to talk to, so the research is a little different," he quips, but the bigger difference is that the plots of "24″ and "Homeland" resonate with real life.
"I think after 9/11 we all were afraid and angry at the terrorists and angry at the bureaucracy that had the failure of imagination and the intelligence gap and couldn't put the pieces together," he says. "I think people watch that—whether it was consciously or not—and got behind Jack in a different way than they would had 9/11 not happened." At least that was the case until,Fashion Dresses as Mr. Gordon delicately puts it, "history and current events . . . happened to the show.""There was no mention of Jack Bauer's methods prior to Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo," Mr. Gordon says. After those events, "I think whatever wish fulfillment Jack represented became . . . darker, took on a darker complexion."That's an understatement. By 2007, Newsweek had dubbed the hit a "neocon sex fantasy." Jack Bauer suddenly wasn't a gritty hero but Dick Cheney in a leather jacket.
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