[lbo-talk] Re: star dreck( formerly "trek")

[Dennis Perrin]

>I also think that foreign characters in certain roles (e.g.
> immigrants being Americanized) might do well, for example a series
> "tracking" a Russian immigrant from "getting off the boat" through
> working his way up in the US society.  Of course, the character would
> have to be physically attractive (preferably young and male), showing
> certain character traits (being honest and somewhat naïve, but also
> hard-working, entrepreneurial, and intelligent, with a good but not too
> sophisticated sense of humor), and engaged in situations that show
> mostly good and funny things about the US society i.e. "everyone can
> make it here, despite initial difficulties (s0me of which would serve as
> a comic relief).  That also implies that most US-ers should be
> essentially good characters or turn out to be such at the end of the
> episode, and the only bad characters in such series be either other
> immigrants or members of generally despised categories, like drug
> dealers, lawyers, greedy bosses, or politicians.
>
> Wojtek

Well put, Woj, but only partly right. You can find alternate takes on the
USA in mainstream H-Wood, from film to TV, but you have to look. The right
invents and inflates all kinds of sedition, but cultural resistance does
exist, even among millionaires. That should be acknowledged & embraced.

DP