On the background of MacCarthysme, Aaron Sorkin returns to the genesis of “I Love Lucy”, the first television series to have federated the American public in the 1950s. A brilliant film, with Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem, to see on Prime video.
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Show Being the Ricardos to a French audience, it’s a bit like making the legend of King Monkey to a Amish community. In the absence of references, the work will not be welcomed with the reverence that surrounds it in its original environment. In the United States, Lucy and Ricky Ricardo are as familiar as are the characters of the trip in the West in the sinophone world, the knights of the round table in Western Europe.
The Ricardo, New York Fireplace consisting of a housewife under the age of 50 and a Cuban Orchestra leader, soon increased from a baby named “Little Ricky”, were 1951 to 1957, the essential protagonists of I Love Lucy, the first comedy of situation to impose a nation – the United States, at the time of the Cold War – an immediate proximity with a family of unknown.
If Aaron Sorkin, playwright, screenwriter, director, showrunner, known for his spirit of seriousness (at the white house), wanted to build a feature film around Lucille Ball (1911-1989) and Desi Arnaz ( 1917-1986), the creators and interpreters of I Love Lucy, it is less to celebrate his comic charm a little outdated than to analyze the formation of an event (cultural, in this case) that will shape a society. It was already, to varying degrees, the project behind Steve Jobs (2015), the biography of the founder of Apple, and The Social Network (2010), on the birth of Facebook, of which Sorkin wrote the scenarios.
Confident of the main roles to interpreters – Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem – whose physiognomy and charisma have nothing to do with those of their models, vigorously compressing in a brief period of time the adventures that surrounded the tremendous success From I Love Lucy, Sorkin delivers a brilliant work, whose artifices more reflect the emotion more than the emotion. If it is born, it is not so much the show of this marriage that is split between the small screen and the real world, that the excitement of the scriptwriter director to the idea of setting the invention of A creative process that was to generate modern episodic fiction.
scandals and chaos
The scenario of Being The Ricardos (which can result in “in the skin of the Ricardo”) holds in the space of a week, occupied by the recording of an episode of the second season of I Love Lucy . Monday, Journalist Maccarthyst Walter Winchell suggests on the radio that “the most popular TV stars will soon be confronted with his communist past”. At the same time, a scandal leaf says that Desi Arnaz is not in the city the exemplary spouse he embodies on the screen. As if it were not enough to destabilize the management of CBS, the network that broadcasts the series, and that of Philip Morris, his main sponsor, the couple announces that Lucille Ball, 41 years old is pregnant, and that he has the intention to integrate this pregnancy into the dramatic arc of the coming season. Takening a tested chronology since Genesis, Sorkin gives himself seven days to put in order in this chaos.
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