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1st episode of the 1st season of Oz
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РежиссерДарнелл Мартин
НаписаноТом Фонтана
Код продукции101
Первоначальная дата выхода в эфир12 июля 1997 г. (1997-07-12)
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« The Routine » — пилотный и первый эпизод тюремной драмы телеканала HBO «Оз» . [1] Сценарий написан Томом Фонтаной , режиссёр — Дарнелл Мартин . Премьера состоялась 12 июля 1997 года.

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Augustus Hill, the series' narrator, introduces the audience to Cell Block 5 of the Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary ("Oz"). Nicknamed "Emerald City" or "Em City," the experimental block is designed to rehabilitate select inmates by allowing them certain privileges in exchange for greater surveillance. The violence of Oz is demonstrated right away as new inmate Miguel Alvarez is shanked before even being brought inside, horrifying fellow arrival Tobias Beecher. The violence upsets Em City's unit manager, Tim McManus, who asks Warden Leo Glynn to allow the cannibalistic killer Donald Groves into Em City, believing no inmate is a lost cause. Glynn reluctantly agrees on the condition that drug dealer Paul Markstrom, his own wayward cousin, be brought there as well.

Correctional officer Diane Whittlesey assigns the arrivals to their "sponsors", veteran prisoners who at least nominally look after them and ensure they integrate appropriately. Groves is assigned the kindly Bob Rebadow; Markstrom's sponsor is Jefferson Keane, a fellow "Homeboy"; and Beecher is given Italian-American mobster Dino Ortolani. Ortolani is not interested in babysitting the anxious Beecher, but gives him basic pointers for surviving Oz. Glynn informs the inmates that cigarettes will be confiscated due to new state laws. Beecher is alarmed to find cellmate Simon Adebisi rifling through his possessions. Adebisi intimidates Beecher when he tries to stop it, and threatens to rape him at bedtime.

An unassuming-looking prisoner named Vernon Schillinger suggests that Beecher appeal to McManus to move out of Adebisi's pod, implying that Schillinger will gladly take Beecher into his own. Unfortunately, Beecher soon realizes Schillinger belongs to the Aryan Brotherhood and that he has just become Schillinger's "livestock." That night, Schillinger tattoos a swastika onto a petrified Beecher's buttocks. The following morning, McManus complains about the draconian laws passed by Governor James Devlin, saying that banning cigarettes will make the inmates uncooperative. Kareem Said, a radical black Muslim leader convicted of arson, arrives at Em City. Keane and Adebisi try to intimidate Said out of his anti-drug preaching, but Said purposefully injures himself to display his determination.

Ortolani, plagued by insomnia and violent flashbacks, puts in a request for a conjugal visit with his wife. Later, he is furious to find out that Irish-American hoodlum Ryan O'Reily, the victim of the assault which landed Ortolani in Oz, is coming to the same prison. Upon arriving, O'Reily sets out to arrange a hit on Ortolani. After getting into a bloody fight with gay inmate Billy Keane in the showers, Ortolani tries to flirt with Dr. Gloria Nathan in the infirmary. McManus punishes Ortolani by assigning him to work with the gay inmates in the AIDS ward. Nathan hates working with Ortolani and thinks McManus can't change people like him. Nonetheless, McManus successfully asks Nathan to dinner with him.

Since Ortolani had attacked his brother, Jefferson Keane agrees to O'Reily's hit. When Ortolani reacts poorly to working in the AIDS ward, McManus vindictively cancels his conjugal visit, replacing it with a behind-the-glass visit between Ortolani and his family. Ortolani tells his wife to go on with her life as though he were dead. During Ortolani's next round in the AIDS ward, he is told by a patient named Emilio Sanchez that he wants to die. In the restroom, Ortolani and O'Reily get into a fight. That night, Ortolani suffocates Sanchez in a mercy killing and is beaten, tranquilized, and left in solitary confinement by the guards. As he is sleeping, a bribed guard lets one of Keane's henchmen, Johnny Post, pour lighter fluid on Ortolani and set him on fire. A dejected McManus examines the photos of Ortolani's corpse.[2][1]

Crime flashbacks

More prominent prisoners in Oz are given a stylized "crime flashback," narrated by Augustus Hill, depicting the crime for which they were incarcerated. The flashbacks of the debut episode were:

Production

"<...>there's something in the first episode. As I was writing it, I had to close my eyes; because I didn't want to see myself writing the words I had to write down. And the actor. The poor actor. [laughs] He read the script, and he called me up, and he went: "Now, you...this is a joke, right? You're not really doing this?"

Tom Fontana about his commitment to daring, taboo-breaking writing that would become the signature of the series[3]

Создатель Том Фонтана предложил идею сериала «Оз» кабельному каналу HBO после многих лет недовольства работой в рамках ограничений сетевого телевидения и их ограничивающих свободу выражения цензурных требований. [4] Исполнительный продюсер Барри Левинсон посещал исправительные учреждения, такие как Балтиморская городская тюрьма и Мэрилендский исправительный дом , прежде чем проводить исследования для своего предыдущего телесериала, и чувствовал, что тюрьма была пугающим и страшным местом с множеством историй, которые можно рассказать, и что специальный телесериал на эту тему никогда не был сделан раньше. [3] HBO посчитали, что они добились успеха со своими предыдущими документальными фильмами на тюремную тематику, и решили заказать «Оз» в качестве своего самого первого часового драматического сериала. Фонтана чувствовал себя чрезвычайно освобожденным и удовлетворенным, написав для «Оза» , разрабатывая графические сцены и нарушая табу, с которыми, по его словам, он никогда бы не справился на сетевом телевидении. HBO построил тюремные декорации внутри склада недалеко от района Митпэкинг на Манхэттене . [4] В начальных титрах шоу Том Фонтана сам делает татуировку с надписью «Оз». [3]

Ссылки

  1. ^ ab HarperEntertainment (2003). Оз: за этими стенами: дневник Августа Хилла . Нью-Йорк: HarperEntertainment. ISBN 0-06-052133-3. OCLC  51241977.
  2. ^ "HBO: Oz: 1.01 The Routine: Синопсис". HBO . Получено 11 апреля 2014 г. .
  3. ^ abc "Oz Production Notes" . Получено 13 апреля 2014 г. .
  4. ^ ab Bruce Fretts (11 июля 1997 г.). "Nasty As He Wanna Be". Entertainment Weekly . Получено 13 апреля 2014 г.
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