Ready for your close up?
A Dutch film company is looking looking for real American native speakers to participate with film recordings for a new feature film “Ushi Must Marry”. This hilarious movie will be shown in cinemas at the end of 2012. Ushi is a character created by Wendy van Dijk: she’s a Japanese TV journalist who interviews famous Americans in her own funny way. (Info in English on Wikipedia.)
On Saturday May 25 shooting will take place in Hilversum (Mediapark) with Uri Geller. In the movie, Ushi will be a guest on Uri Geller’s chat show and will tell her story about finding her groom. It will be an interactive day where we would like to hear your American voice!
Would you like to experience movie making close up, with famous Dutch actress Wendy van Dijk and the internationally known Uri Geller? Please send an email to Sara and Iris at studiopubliek@gmail.com with your picture and the following details: your name, residence, age and phone number.
We’ll start around 11 AM and the shooting will last the whole day. Of course we will provide food and drinks to keep you going. It will be a great day with lots of fun
It wouldn’t be May without various Dutch holidays.. Here are our special opening times this month (and a very early warning for next month, too):
ABC Amsterdam
Hemelvaart (Ascencion Day), May 17th: 11.00 – 19.00
1e Pinksterdag (Whit Sunday), May 27st: 12.00 – 18.00
2e Pinksterdag (Whit Monday), May 28th: 12.00 – 19.00
ABC’s Staff Reunion Day, June 8th: 10.00 – 18.00
ABC The Hague
Hemelvaart (Ascencion Day), May 17th: 12.00 – 18.00
1e Pinksterdag (Whit Sunday), May 27st: closed
2e Pinksterdag (Whit Monday), May 28th: 13.00 – 17.00
ABC’s Staff Reunion Day, June 8th: 10.00 – 17.00
I loved Forbrydelsen, the Danish television series better known as “The Killing”, so when I heard that there was a novel adaptation up for grabs at the You Review program I jumped at the chance to be the one to review it. The original screenplay was written by Søren Sveistrup, but since he was busy with the 3rd series at the time the producers enlisted the help of David Hewson to turn the first tv-series into a novel. Søren gave David some insights in the story, while others helped him get acquainted with Copenhagen, its culture and its people. In the end, David was given carte blanche to write this novel and even to write a different plotline into the story.
The book The Killing seems to follow the screenplay closely, but not word-for-word. Some scenes are added or omitted, some even noticeably so that they would irritate a person that has seen the series. What the author has done is to write a very accurate narrative of the story as it unfolds (with the added storyline), like you would actually do if you retold the story to you colleagues at work at the water-cooler the next day. For me, the written text fell flat compared to the original TV series. This is partly because of the lack of interior monologue that you would expect in a novel. If I had not seen the TV-series and only read the novel I would have had no bonus that a novelization is usually meant to bring and I would have had a hard time reading through the jumps the story makes between scenes. The lack of personal insight into the characters irked me, since the artistic licence never went beyond “..he said angrily while looking at the picture remembering the little girl…”.
However the character plot line change of Lund’s partner Meyer was the thing that baffled me most. It was unnecessary and completely out of character from the original Meyer. The story of Nanna is well worth the read in itself, since the plot is forever twisting and turning between suspects and the motives range from political ones and racism to simple lust and envy. The political struggle for mayor of Copenhagen is cleverly interwoven with the daily struggle of a family coming to turns with the loss of their daughter and Lund struggling with her last days in the police force and handing things over to her new partner Meyer. You slowly come to the realisation that you’ll never know any of your friends or family members completely and that some might carry around with them (dark) secrets.
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