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some european publicity materials for the film including posters and lobby card sets advertised the film as tenebre and the 1999 anchor bay dvd release uses that same title however on the print itself during the opening credits the title is clearly tenebrae in addition the title of neal 's latest book in the film is shown in closeup as being tenebrae in a lengthy interview with argento conducted by martin coxhead that appeared in two issues of fangoria in 1983 and 1984 the title was always referred to as tenebrae early on in production the film as referred to as under the eyes of the assassin which was later used as one of the poster taglines in japan the film was released as shadows and in the united states it was released as unsane in its initial heavily edited incarnation
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= = soundtrack = =
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the italian rock band goblin had provided the scores for two of argento 's previous films deep red ( 1975 ) and suspiria ( 1977 ) but the director had employed english composer keith emerson for his foray outside of the giallo subgenre 1980 's inferno goblin had disbanded that year but in 1982 argento asked three of the band 's former members claudio simonetti fabio pignatelli and massimo morante to work on tenebrae owing to their history together simonetti felt it appropriate that argento 's return to giallo films should utilise the core members of goblin the resulting synth @@ driven score was credited to simonetti @@ pignatelli @@ morante as goblin 's former drummer owned the rights to use the band 's name
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tenebrae 's score is very different to those the band had produced for argento previously the early 1980s had seen simonetti experimenting with dance music and he decided on a more electronic sound for tenebrae simonetti described the score as an electronica / rock hybrid with the main theme including disco elements so it would not be difficult to accommodate argento 's preference for long takes simonetti pignatelli and morante made sure to play each song for 3 4 minutes recording the score simonetti used the roland jupiter @@ 8 roland vocoder plus and minimoog synthesizers as well as a piano electric piano the oberheim dmx digital drum a roland tr @@ 808 drum machine and roland mc @@ 4 music sequencer pignatelli played bass and fretless guitar while morante played electric and acoustic guitar
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while the soundtrack is not as well regarded as goblin 's earlier scores for deep red suspiria or dawn of the dead ( 1978 ) tim lucas felt it so fused to the fabric of the picture that tenebrae might be termed a giallo musicale that is a giallo in which the soundtrack transcends mere accompaniment to occupy the same plane as the action and characters writers david kerekes and david slater were also favorable to the score writing that the film bristles with arresting imagery and a cracking musical score from ex @@ members of goblin simonetti felt the score was good but that it was only a medium level success however it did enjoy a second wave of popularity being remixed in clubs the album has had multiple reissues in numerous countries since its original release in 1982 on the italian <unk> label that version consisted of only eight tracks in 1997 <unk> issued a greatly expanded version on cd including eleven bonus tracks with a running time of over an hour in 2004 the expanded cd was released in the us on the armadillo music label in 2012 it was released again on vinyl by ams records ( italy )
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= = release = =
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= = = original reception and censorship = = =
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tenebrae had a wide theatrical release throughout italy and mainland europe something the director very much needed after having suffered major distribution problems with his previous film inferno released on 28 october 1982 tenebrae saw modest success at the box office in italy and europe but it did not perform as well as some of argento 's previous films in italy tenebrae had been released with a vm18 rating meaning it could not be seen legally by persons under the age of eighteen argento had desired a <unk> rating both to attract a younger audience and to increase the film 's chances of commercial success tenebrae features scenes of female homosexuality attitudes towards homosexuality in italy were fairly conservative at the time and argento said he wanted to recount this subject freely and in an open manner without interference or being ashamed the vm18 rating upset him as he believed it was a result of the sexual diversity on display rather than the film 's violence
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one of the film 's most excessively violent scenes features the death of neal 's ex @@ wife jane ( played by veronica lario ) this scene was one which suffered the most from cuts when the film was first released in italy the original scene featured jane 's arm being cut off at the elbow blood sprays from the wound onto white walls until the character falls to the floor after a back @@ and @@ forth between argento and italian censors ( at the time a panel of judges ) the scene was first trimmed from showing an immense spray to a small one then a smaller one still the scene was cut to almost nothing in the 1990s when lario married future italian prime minister silvio berlusconi according to alan jones berlusconi did not want the public seeing [ lario ] so explicitly murdered even if it was in a film by his country 's premier horror expert for a few years it was impossible to see the film in italy legally as prints were withdrawn altogether a later dvd release did become available with the scene restored
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averaging a murder every ten minutes tenebrae ranks as one of argento 's bloodiest films in the united kingdom the film was shorn of five seconds of sexualized violence by the british board of film classification prior to its theatrical release on 19 may 1983 the advertising campaign for tenebrae featured posters and a soundtrack sleeve depicting a woman with her throat cut blood dripping from the wound according to jones who worked for tenebrae 's distributor at the time in the uk the posters had to be recalled after the london underground refused to run them new posters were issued that replaced the image of the wound and blood with a red ribbon a similar change was made to the soundtrack sleeve
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in the united states the film remained unseen in the us until 1984 when bedford entertainment briefly released a heavily edited version under the title unsane it was approximately ten minutes shorter than the european release and was missing nearly all of the film 's violence which effectively rendered the numerous horror sequences incomprehensible in addition certain scenes that established the characters and their relationships were excised making the film 's narrative difficult to follow this version of tenebrae received nearly unanimously negative reviews
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= = = home media and video nasty list = = =
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tenebrae has been released on home media in many different versions in numerous territories in 1983 when the vhs edition was released in the united kingdom it was short by about four seconds however the film soon found itself included in a list of thirty @@ nine so @@ called video nasties that were successfully prosecuted and banned from sale in uk video stores under the video recordings act 1984 deemed harmful to audiences video nasties were strongly criticised for their violent content by the press social commentators and various religious organizations <unk> in 2011 thomas rostock said that the higher @@ than @@ usual murder count for an argento film was partially responsible while james gracey believed it was perhaps the highly sexualised presentation of its violent content he went on to say of all the titles placed on the video nasty list tenebrae is perhaps the most misunderstood and undeserving of the grimy status it gained through its association with the whole debacle kim newman agreed that tenebrae 's reputation as a video nasty was unwarranted saying that none of the on @@ screen deaths are as gory or lingering as those in argento 's previous films he also believed tenebrae would eventually be remembered on its own merits rather than as part of the video nasties list nevertheless the ban lasted until 1999 when tenebrae was legally released on videotape with one second of footage removed in addition to the previously censored five in 2003 the bbfc reclassified the film and passed it without any cuts in germany the release was strongly cut and reportedly seized by the authorities
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the film has since been released on dvd in the us mostly uncut save for approximately twenty seconds of extraneous material tenebrae received an initial dvd release in march 1999 from anchor bay entertainment with a re @@ release in may 2008 the anchor bay release though presented as uncut was not the fully restored version of the film a dvd german release by raptor was also missing about one @@ and @@ a @@ half seconds of material in june 2011 arrow films issued a special edition on dvd but although the image quality was far better than in previous dvd releases this version was heavily lambasted for carrying a transfer of the film that had visible noise and distorted audio in 2013 arrow released a blu @@ ray edition that corrected the audio and video problems additional corrections were made to the transfer and released by synapse films in 2016 as a steelbook edition limited to 3000 copies the arrow & synapse dvd and blu @@ ray releases are completely uncut
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= = = later reception = = =
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tenebrae is now considered by many fans and critics to be one of argento 's best films with some considering it his last great one allmovie refers to the film one of dario argento 's best thrillers commenting in 1994 maitland mcdonagh said tenebrae was in many respects the finest film that argento has ever made richard dyer writing for the directory of world cinema italy describes the film as a tease one which is perhaps the apotheosis of one of the core pleasures of detective fiction being outwitted wrong @@ footed led up the garden path and believed that the degree of lighting used in the film was unsurpassed ed gonzalez of slant magazine said that tenebrae is a riveting defense of auteur theory ripe with self @@ reflexive discourse and various moral conflicts it 's both a riveting horror film and an architect 's worst nightmare keith phipps of the av club noted argento makes some points about the intersection of art reality and personality but the director 's stunning trademark setpieces presented here in a fully restored version provide the real reason to watch almar haflidason in a review for bbc online opined <unk> beautiful and viciously exciting welcome to true terror with dario argento 's shockingly relentless tenebrae tim lucas in video watchdog said though it is in some ways as artificial and deliberate as a de palma thriller tenebrae contains more likeable characters believable relationships and more emphasis on the erotic than can be found in any other argento film gordon sullivan of dvd verdict wrote tenebre is a straight @@ up giallo in the old @@ school tradition it may have been filmed in 1982 but it comes straight out of the ' 70s tradition we 've got all the usual suspects including a writer for a main character lots of killer @@ cam point of view some crazily over the top kills and approximately seventy @@ two twists before all is revealed for fans of argento 's earlier giallo this is a must @@ see
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not all of the recent critical reaction to tenebrae has been positive geoff andrew of time out thought that the film was unpleasant even by contemporary horror standards john kenneth muir author of horror films of the 1980s considers the film to be far inferior to suspiria but acknowledges that it was so unremittingly gory that it justified its us title of unsane john wiley martin although evaluating the film as a technically mesmeric one felt that thematically it was a disappointingly retrograde step for argento christopher null of filmcriticcom referred to it as a gory but not particularly effective argento horror flick while dennis schwartz dismissed it as trash gary johnson editor of images complained that not much of tenebre makes much sense the plot becomes little more than an excuse for argento to stage the murder sequences and these are some of the bloodiest murders of argento 's career in 2004 tim lucas re @@ evaluated the film and found that some of his earlier enthusiasm had dimmed considerably noting that tenebre is beginning to suffer from the cheap 16 mm @@ like softness of luciano tovoli 's cinematography its sometimes over @@ storyboarded violence ( the first two murders in particular look stilted ) the many bewildering lapses in logic and the overdone performances of many of its female actors
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= = legacy = =
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coming at the tail end of the giallo cycle tenebrae does not appear to have been as influential as argento 's earlier films were on subsequent thrillers though douglas e winter said that tenebrae 's louma crane sequence was stylistically influential and was used in brian de palma 's the untouchables ( 1987 ) in addition towards the end of the film with neal the killer supposedly dead the camera faces detective giermani directly when he stoops to pick up some evidence from the floor neal is revealed to be stood behind him their silhouettes having perfectly matched in the shot alan jones believes tenebrae was the first film to use this specific shot and that it was copied and referenced deliberately in many subsequent films one such example discussed as an unacknowledged steal from tenebrae is de palma 's surprise reveal of john lithgow standing behind a victim in raising cain ( 1992 ) robert zemeckis 's what lies beneath ( 2000 ) also contains a very similar moment although zemeckis has denied having any familiarity at all with italian thrillers
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neal 's death scene at the end of tenebrae where the character is accidentally impaled by a sculpture is directly referenced in kenneth branagh 's hitchcockian mystery dead again ( 1991 ) kim newman says that branagh 's film imitates so entirely the sequence ( this time with derek jacobi as the victim of the sculpture ) that branagh must have included the reference deliberately the subsequent moment where nicolodi screams over and over was cited by asia argento ( nicolodi 's daughter with dario argento ) as the moment that inspired her to become an actress
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= tropical storm gert ( 2005 ) =
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tropical storm gert was the fourth of seven tropical cyclones ( 4 hurricanes two major hurricanes and four tropical storms ) to make landfall in mexico during 2005 it formed in july in the bay of campeche becoming the seventh named storm of the 2005 atlantic hurricane season
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as a tropical wave gert crossed honduras and the yucatán peninsula before organizing into tropical depression seven on the afternoon of july 23 in the bay of campeche it was upgraded to tropical storm gert early the next day gaining the record for the earliest formation of a seventh named storm in an atlantic hurricane season gert strengthened little before making landfall south of tampico tamaulipas late on july 24 with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph ( 70 km / h ) and a minimum central pressure of 1005 mbar ( 29 @@ 68 inhg ) it moved inland over central mexico before dissipating on the next day gert struck in approximately the same area as hurricane emily just four days earlier causing fear of flooding and landslides due to saturated lands as a precaution some 1 @@ 000 people were evacuated from low @@ lying residences and businesses near the towns of naranjos <unk> and tamiahua
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a tropical wave entered the atlantic ocean from africa on july 10 and the wave developed into an area of low pressure while passing over cape verde despite the organization the low failed to develop into a tropical cyclone due to cool waters on the sea surface and wind shear however those unfavorable conditions did not completely destroy the wave as it continued traveling westward through the lesser antilles until july 18 that day while south of puerto rico the wave split in two the northern half moved northwest and developed into tropical storm franklin over the bahamas and the southern half continued westward with its associated thunderstorm activity increasing
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on july 22 a new low pressure area developed while the tropical wave was located over the gulf of honduras however this area of disturbed weather was unable to develop further because the storm quickly moved over the yucatán peninsula after its one @@ day passage through the peninsula the system entered the bay of campeche but lacked any deep convection this time though the wave quickly developed the deep convection it needed to become a tropical cyclone in part this was due to the sierra madre oriental enhancing large @@ scale rotation of the disturbance by forcing air to flow parallel to the mountain range instead of through it as a result the national hurricane center in miami florida designated it as tropical depression seven just 255 miles east @@ southeast of tuxpan mexico early on the july 24 the cyclone was upgraded to a tropical storm with winds of 40 mph ( 65 km / h ) and received the name gert
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gert continued to move northwest after becoming a tropical storm and reached a peak intensity of 45 mph ( 70 km / h ) and a minimum central pressure of 1005 mbar ( 29 @@ 68 inhg ) gert made landfall just 6 miles ( 10 km ) to the southeast of pánuco still at peak intensity at 10 00 pm cdt ( 0000 july 25 utc ) however due to its interaction with land the storm quickly weakened back to a tropical depression strength early on july 25 and became a remnant low twelve hours after that six hours later just a day after it made landfall it dissipated over the mountains of central mexico
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the track of tropical storm gert was slightly more to the north than the national hurricane center 's initial predictions giving the storm more time to develop as a result the nhc predicted that gert could intensify further but this did not occur the primary emphasis of the forecasts was on the impact the rainfall from gert could cause particularly on this area of mexico which had been hit previously in the season by other hurricanes
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on july 23 the mexican servicio meteorológico nacional ( national weather service ) issued a tropical storm warning for the eastern mexican gulf coast between palma sola and cabo rojo as soon as tropical depression seven formed at that time a tropical storm watch was issued from cabo rojo northward until reaching la cruz that same day the government of veracruz declared a state of emergency in 24 municipalities of the state making money from the national disaster fund available to those affected by the storm as gert came closer to the littoral the tropical storm warning was extended northwards to la cruz and then to la pesca but it was canceled shortly after landfall
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tropical storm gert struck just south of where category 3 hurricane emily had struck and where tropical storm bret hit in late june as a result there were concerns that serious flooding and mudslides would result due to saturated ground as a precaution about 1 @@ 000 people were evacuated from low @@ lying residences and businesses near the towns of naranjos <unk> and tamiahua in veracruz and about 6 @@ 000 throughout tamaulipas
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the highest 24 @@ hour rainfall reports were 214 @@ 9 mm ( 8 @@ 46 in ) in <unk> san luis potosí and 185 @@ 2 mm ( 7 @@ 29 in ) in <unk> tamaulipas in veracruz the highest precipitation reading associated with gert was 117 mm ( 4 @@ 61 in ) in el higo however damage overall was minimal amounting to $ 6 million ( 2005 usd $ 60 million 2005 mxn ) and there was only one reported fatality from a man who was carried away by the la silla river when he was pushing a stalled car across the flooded stream
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according to the government of tamaulipas most of the damage in the state was in farmland and in residents ' dwellings primarily near matamoros valle hermoso reynosa and san fernando in matamoros part of the city lost power and running water in valle hermoso two schools were damaged in reynosa 180 people were evacuated from low @@ lying areas in five districts of the city while in san fernando the main highway through the city was closed and traffic on the bridge over the conchos river was restricted to one lane
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in mier the spillway of the las blancas dam was overtopped causing a river bridge to be destroyed and electric power to be lost as well in río bravo 50 families were evacuated as seven collective farms became hard to reach by road approximately 90 of the residences in the farms were affected by the storm in altamira 200 families were evacuated as well and relocated to seven shelters also in the municipalities of burgos <unk> and méndez there was flooding in collective farms and family dwellings overall the municipalities of mier reynosa río bravo valle hermoso matamoros san fernando san carlos burgos <unk> méndez soto la marina mante and altamira were affected in the state losing potable water and electricity
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after the storm the state government promised to take the necessary steps to prevent an outbreak of dengue and west nile virus however by june 29 there had already been 187 cases of classic dengue and 29 of hemorrhagic dengue up from 8 cases two years before and none the previous year
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in nuevo león about 6 @@ 000 residents who lived near the conchos <unk> and grande rivers were evacuated from their residences across the state also the precipitation from gert caused about 100 collective farms to become isolated from the rest of the state in the municipality of montemorelos in the city one building was evacuated as a 100 ft ( 30 m ) fissure appeared on the ground near the structure
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in the municipalities of san vicente <unk> valles and <unk> 100 people were evacuated
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= gone for goode =
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gone for goode is the first episode of the first season of the american police drama television series homicide life on the street it originally aired on nbc in the united states on january 31 1993 immediately following super bowl xxvii the episode was written by series creator paul attanasio and directed by executive producer barry levinson gone for goode introduced regular cast members daniel baldwin ned beatty richard belzer andre braugher wendy hughes clark johnson yaphet kotto melissa leo jon polito and kyle secor
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the episode connects several subplots involving the detectives of a baltimore police department homicide unit and establishes story arcs that continued through the first season among them are an investigation by meldrick lewis ( johnson ) and steve crosetti ( polito ) into a widow killing husbands for insurance money as well as rookie tim bayliss ( secor ) being assigned the murder of an 11 @@ year @@ old girl for his first case both of those subplots were taken directly from homicide a year on the killing streets the 1991 david simon non @@ fiction book from which the series was adapted
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gone for goode was seen by 18 @@ 24 million viewers the largest viewership of the first season although nbc was initially disappointed with the ratings the episode received generally positive reviews upon its original broadcast barry levinson won an emmy award for his direction in gone for goode and was nominated for a directors guild of america award paul attanasio received a writers guild of america award nomination for the episode 's script
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= = plot summary = =
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the episode opens with lewis ( clark johnson ) and crosetti ( jon polito ) looking for a projectile a few yards away from the body of a man shot to death the man 's girlfriend ( oni <unk> lampley ) who was shot in the head during the incident but survived tells police during questioning that her aunt calpurnia church hired a hitman to kill her for insurance money the detectives learn church previously collected life insurance from five deceased husbands suspecting church of murdering her husbands lewis and crosetti have the body of her most recent husband exhumed for an autopsy but reach a dead @@ end when it turns out to be the wrong body in his grave
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felton ( daniel baldwin ) hesitates to take a new murder case because he fears it will be too difficult to solve so it is taken on by his partner howard ( melissa leo ) who has recently experienced a perfect streak of solving 11 consecutive cases they investigate the body of a man dead in a basement and much to felton 's bewilderment howard solves the case easily the owner of the house jerry <unk> ( jim <unk> ) literally calls her at the house while she is investigating and agrees to a police interview during which he acts extremely nervous and is eventually charged with the murder
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munch ( richard belzer ) is reluctant to follow up on the case of murdered drug addict jenny goode who was run over by a car the case has been cold for three months but he is made to feel guilty by his partner bolander ( ned beatty ) into reexamining it munch makes no progress after speaking with the family and reexamining notes based on witness accounts of a man with long blond hair and a black car munch spends all night looking through suspect photos until he finds a man with a black car with front end damage and long black hair but blond eyebrows munch and bolander question him believing the suspect ( joe hansard ) to have dyed his hair to change his appearance after killing the woman he quickly confesses to having hit her accidentally while driving drunk
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gee ( yaphet kotto ) tells pembleton ( andre braugher ) an excellent detective but a lone wolf that he must work with a partner pembleton ends up investigating the death of a 65 @@ year @@ old man with rookie detective bayliss ( kyle secor ) bayliss initially believes the death to be a heart attack but pembleton correctly determines it is a murder because the man 's car is missing police later arrest a man named johnny ( alexander chaplin ) who is found driving the dead man 's car during an interrogation pembleton fools johnny into waiving his miranda rights then sneakily persuades him into confessing to the murder bayliss although convinced of johnny 's guilt nevertheless questions the ethics of pembleton 's approach prompting pembleton to yell angrily at him in front of the other officers the episode ends with bayliss responding to his first homicide as the primary detective the brutal murder of an 11 @@ year @@ old girl named adena watson
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= = production = =
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= = = development and writing = = =
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gone for goode was written by series creator paul attanasio and directed by executive producer barry levinson levinson was seeking to create a television series based on homicide a year on the killing streets a 1991 non @@ fiction book by david simon based on one year he spent with baltimore police department homicide detectives levinson and fellow executive producer tom fontana hired attanasio to adapt elements of the book into the teleplay for the first episode it was first television script attanasio ever wrote the episode was shot by director of photography wayne ewing stan <unk> started out working as editor but departed before the process was done due to creative differences with levinson tony black finished the editing for gone for goode but did not return for the rest of the season and jay rabinowitz worked as editor for the remaining episodes the costumes for the episode were designed by van smith but he also did not return to work on subsequent episodes although it was first episode of homicide life on the street it was not technically a television pilot because the network had already ordered a full season of episodes before gone for goode was produced the first episode was noted at the time for weaving four separate storylines into a single episode the first in a trend of multiple subplots in each homicide show nbc executives indicated to attanasio and levinson they would have preferred the script to focus on a single homicide case rather than four but ultimately allowed the script to be filmed with all subplots included additionally despite intense advance promotion of the homicide premiere attanasio deliberately sought to introduce the show with little fanfare avoiding sensational gimmicks in favor of character @@ driven plot quirky dialogue and morbid dark humor
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gone for goode included several storylines and even exact bits of dialogue adapted straight from homicide a year on the killing streets among them were the investigation into calpurnia smith an elderly woman suspected of murdering five husbands in order to collect their life insurance policies this was based on the real @@ life case of geraldine parrish who was also accused of killing five husbands for insurance money and was eventually convicted for three of their deaths a scene involving a funeral director accidentally exhuming the wrong body while investigating the church case mirrored a similar situation described in homicide a year on the killing streets from the parrish case the adena watson murder case which is assigned to bayliss in the final scene of gone for goode was adapted from the unsolved 1988 slaying of latonya kim wallace which made up a major part of the book the watson case became an important story arc throughout the first season which ended without the case being solved the hit @@ and @@ run murder of jenny goode was also based on simon 's book and the murder of the elderly man was inspired by a case featured in the book in which a young homosexual man killed his elderly lover and stole his car
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attanasio also based the characters in homicide on the detectives featured in simon 's book the difficulties bayliss experienced with the case as well as the extremely personal approach he took in attempting to solve it were inspired by the real @@ life baltimore detective tom pellegrini who was the primary detective in the wallace case most of the detectives featured in the homicide book said they were happy with their on @@ screen counterparts although detective harry edgerton the inspiration for frank pembleton objected to a scene in gone for goode in which the character drinks milk in a bar something edgerton said he never does
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the episode opens with crosetti and lewis looking for clues in a dark alley levinson and attanasio specifically wanted a dialogue @@ driven prologue scene that did not immediately clarify the fact that the two men were detectives or what they were looking for the dialogue and staging of the scene were imitated in the final scene of the last homicide episode forgive us our trespasses which aired on may 21 1999 in that final scene detective rene sheppard ( played by michael michele ) says to lewis life is a mystery just accept it a line spoken by crosetti in the first episode lewis also said that 's what 's wrong with this job it ain 't got nothin ' to do do with life a line also spoken by crosetti in the first episode early scenes in gone for goode also involved giardello introducing rookie detective bayliss to the homicide unit attanasio sought to use bayliss ' orientation as a way of introducing exposition and background about the show to the viewer as well
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in writing the script attanasio levinson and fontana wanted the dialogue to reflect the kinds of things detectives would talk about when not discussing murders or cases which led to the inclusion of several scenes in which detectives talk casually among themselves during lunch or around the office fontana who compared the scenes to levinson 's 1982 film diner said that really made the show different from other shows because we had the room to have conversations that seemingly didn 't ( <unk> ) connect anything but they did reveal a lot about the characters levinson specifically asked that the body by howard and felton be badly decomposing and attracting flies because he felt other police dramas did not portray corpses in a realistic way
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= = = photography style = = =
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levinson and fontana sought to establish many of the stylistic elements in the episode which would define the series for its entire run among them were near @@ constant movement with hand @@ held super 16 cameras to give the episode a naturalistic documentary look and an editing style involving jump cuts that was unusual for television at the time levinson said this camera and editing style was partially inspired by breathless the 1960 jean @@ luc godard film the scenes were shot on @@ location in baltimore as would be the case throughout the duration of the series the use of hand @@ held cameras allowed the film to be shot more easily in the city rather than on a sound @@ stage in los angeles or new york city where most shows are typically shot levinson said being on location at all times allowed baltimore to be a character in the show
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while filming the episode levinson said he would simply allow the actors to perform while he switched back and forth between them with the hand @@ held camera instead of filming carefully planned shots and individual scenes from multiple angles this camera style largely persisted through the end of the series in 1999 some individual scenes involved a number of jump cuts repeated several times in fast succession another unusual stylistic element used in the episode involved sudden changes in jump @@ screen direction a shot with an actor looking from left to right might immediately jump to another shot of the same actor looking from right to left this process was born during the editing sessions for gone for goode where levinson insisted that the footage be edited to include the actor 's best performances during editing tony black cut together two shots that did not match and began looking for a cutaway shot he could use to disguise the edit levinson however liked the technique that came from cutting the two conflicting shots together and insisted it stay in
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in addition to stylistic touches the episode established several narrative motifs that stayed with homicide life on the street throughout the duration of the series among them was the white board where detectives kept the names of their open cases in red and their closed cases in black the names of nbc employees and friends of the homicide crew were used on the white board the episode was noted for its deliberate lack of gunplay and car chases in favor of dialogue and story levinson and fontana also allowed humor to be incorporated into the show particularly through the interactions between the detectives levinson said of the first episode we have to inform the audience but at the same time you want to do it with a sense of humor so you don 't seem too pretentious in a way several long @@ standing character traits were established in gone for goode including kay howard 's extraordinary streak of solved cases and the antagonism between felton and pembleton which is demonstrated when the two argue loudly after being assigned to a case together the animosity between felton and pembleton is based on the real @@ life detective donald kincaid who was the inspiration behind felton and the strong dislike kincaid had for harry edgerton as chronicled in homicide a year on the killing streets howard 's perfect streak is based on a similar ( although shorter ) lucky streak experienced by the real @@ life detective rich garvey who is also featured in david simon 's book
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