The picture style of "LA Police" is very sloppy, with large sections of hand-held camera shaky footage. There is no right shoulder shot on a fixed camera, there is no beautiful transition, and some transitions between long and short shots even make people feel stiff. People are blurry. But it is this kind of unrefined and sloppy camera language, this kind of chatter that seems to have nothing to do with the theme, which makes people see its sincerity. NBC announced the reservation for the second season after just 4 episodes of the show, which shows the level of this show and NBC's vision and ambition.
The series is produced by John Wells (six Emmys for Best Producer and Best Screenplay), Ann Biderman (Emmy for Best Screenplay) and Chris Chulack (Emmy for Best Director). Unlike many crime dramas on the small screen such as the "CSI Series", "L.A. Police" is not a unit drama that revolves around one case per episode, and its focus is more on the police force. It also doesn't have the gimmicky "pseudo-scientific" crime drama qualities of "The Mentalist" like "A Thousand Lies". The series stars Michael Cudlitz ("River of Love") as John Cooper, a 20-year veteran of the police force who is tasked with helping young cop Ben Sherman (played by "Orange Boys" star Ben McKenzie). But what is different from the media's focus on Ben Mckenzie is that the characters in this show are very evenly arranged, and there is no established central role. Sergeant Lydia Adams, played by Regina King, was a standout in the first four episodes that have aired. "L.A. Police" is produced by John Wells Pictures and Warner Bros. Television, and its behind-the-scenes members are all from the production team of "The West Wing".
Before the official launch of "LA Police", there were comments that "LA Confidential" finally moved to the small screen. In fact, L.A. Confidential, a film that won two Oscars, 69 film awards and 43 nominations that year, has a TV version. And it is starring Kiefer Sutherland, who plays Xiaoqiang Jack in "24 Hours" familiar to domestic audiences, but the negotiation between the HBO TV station responsible for the shooting and the film producer of "Los Angeles Confidential" broke down, which led to the fact that the first episode had already been filmed. The TV series "LA Confidential" aborted.
After the first episode of "L.A. Police" aired, the movie or TV series related to it is not only "L.A. Confidential". Some people say that the editing method with an early ending is like the movie "Crash". The story setting of the old policeman leading the young policeman is reminiscent of the movie "Training Day". The processing method of multiple characters and multiple clues is like the NBC TV station which was launched in 1981. "Hill Street Blues," the same type of show, with shaky footage and rough editing like "NYPD Blue." Some scholars believe that the setting of driving a police car to answer the mission is similar to the TV series "Adam-12" which was first broadcast on NBC in 1968. But after careful analysis, the editing method with an early ending is not new. For example, the hit TV series "Breaking Bad" is often used. It's a bit far-fetched to say that the story lines interspersed with "Crash" are similar. As for the textual research of the old-fashioned TV series "Hill Street Blues" and "Adam-12", it is equivalent to thinking that the word "囧" comes from Cangjie. However, the photography and language style of "Los Angeles Police" is similar to that of "New York Crime Squad", and many people will agree. Because "L.A. Police" screenwriter Adam Biderman won the Emmy Award for Best Screenplay for "New York Crime Squad" that year.
The opening sequence of L.A. Police is brilliantly done, and the character that appears is Richard Ramirez, the serial killer who hit Los Angeles and San Francisco at the time. Richard is one of the most terrifying, most media- and public-focused, and best-known serial killers in American history. He is so famous that he was also the first to appear in the opening credits of the famous American drama "Criminal Minds". And the psychological panic he caused to Los Angeles makes every crime drama set in Los Angeles hard to ignore. The well-chosen opening music is from Dulce Pontes' "Cancao Do Mar", and appreciative audiences will also find this background music also appearing in Adam's film "Primal Fear". The connection feels quite strange. It's like an author trying to change his writing style, but we can still see his personal imprint in some of his words.
A black kid was shot in the first episode. The police officers of the police force were ordered to investigate the scene. At this time, an old man rushed out and asked them, "Do you know how to stop the gang fighting? Give out more free marijuana. Otherwise, such inhumane things will happen again and again. ” This sudden episode just broke into the camera wantonly. In another case, Officer Adams was investigating a missing child, and when questioning neighbors, a man babbled about how heavy the child's schoolbag was and how distressed it looked. There is a lot of this kind of scattered, long-winded text. If "L.A. Police" is a novel, you can find that many times it is talking nonsense about things that seem unrelated. When it really needs to add more ink to the characters, it is very stingy and hastily. But in this context of forbearance and deliberate avoidance, the miserly shots are full of tension. They are all people with stories, but they are a group of people who do not want to tell stories.
At the end of the first episode, John Cooper is sitting in a bar when a guy next to him says, "I got caught by the police today." John replied lightly, "I'm having a bad time too". And the person who greeted him was the one he had seen earlier on patrol. When the camera is pulled, a room of men is clearly a Gay Bar. "L.A. Police" explained John's gay identity in a particularly obscure way. Producer Wells said in an interview with reporters that because of time constraints, seven minutes of John's personal identity were cut off. But I'd rather believe it was intentional by the creator.
The second episode revolves around detectives John and Ben and Chickie spotting children crawling on the road while on patrol. There are two very interesting twists in the story line. The
first scene happened when three police officers were patrolling. Ben found someone was robbing at gunpoint (2-11 seems to be the code name of Armed Robbery), and he immediately rushed out of the car and subdued it. man with gun. But what's interesting is that the one lying on the ground who is threatened is the real robber. Ben couldn't help being taught a lesson by John that he was too young. Many things are not as simple as we see them. The second scene takes place at the retirement party of Dewey, the officer who was shot in the previous episode. Officer Sal is seen kissing her lover by her daughter who was there. But when the father and daughter talked afterwards, it was surprising that the daughter actually praised her father's lover for being beautiful and called her mother a whore. quite dramatic.
As the story progresses, the backgrounds of the characters in the play are revealed little by little. For example, Officer Adams, who has a large role in this episode, came to her ex-husband's house after dealing with the abandoned baby and asked her if her ex-husband had called her. And her ex-husband said he hit him four months ago. It's a bit embarrassing, apparently Adams still misses her ex-husband and wants to have a baby. For Officer Adams, she can help others find children, but she can't help herself have a family and a child. All I can say is that life makes fun of people. And Ben's backstory also slowly surfaced through the last episode. At the end of the episode, Chickie and Ben emerge from Officer Dewey's retirement party together, with Chickie trying to get in on the relationship and getting Ben to talk about his family. But Ben said bluntly, I'm leaving. Falling flowers are intentional, flowing water is ruthless. I don't know if it's the right word to describe it.
Janelle, who appeared in the first episode and was willing to testify in court, joined the police department's "Explorer" project, but she got too close to the police, but she provoked murder. Officer Bryant, who was at the party, arrived immediately after receiving her call. In this scene, there is an obvious bug. We can judge from the shooting scene that the gangster was using an automatic machine gun, but red shotgun shells appeared at the scene. Even with a shotgun, the casings should be in the street, not in the room. It's a bit abrupt to see such a low-level error in "Los Angeles Police", which is characterized by straightforwardness and authenticity as the main style of the series.
The narrative of "L.A. Police" is casual, but you can see its straightforward and unobtrusive character charm in this casual and rambling progression.
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