Another thing I think is worse is that the productions values have changed, I expect for export
It's definitely a lot lesser gritty-looking. Out has gone the Seventies Swedish flat, and in comes New Sweden, all white light and walls. There used to be a contrast between W's life and that of the people he investigated. Now, less so - and tho' this could be a choice that Means Something, it doesn't seem to. The beach is no longer the place they go to contemplate drowning in, it's just a background.
I wonder how this intersects with the Branagh production. The same company is involved in both, but Branagh's stays a lot closer to the books. At the same time, the B. series tends to be set in summer, very colourful, the yellow, red and blue of Skaane in June - it's very much a "the darkness is underneath" theme. The first Swedish Wallanders were more generic police procedual than the British ones, lifted out of it by the gritty photography - all Skaane in winter making one long to get away, anywhere - and the difficult personal relationships. Without that, we've gone back much more to Cop Drama, albeit one still pretty much streets ahead of the competition.
Both Wallanders are made by the same production company, and the Branagh one was a lot slicker to start with, but as it stuck closer to the books,
I suspect that Jussi is going to turn out to be Clinging On to Meaning Now Linda is Dead/Moved away.
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Date: 2010-05-02 07:02 pm (UTC)It's definitely a lot lesser gritty-looking. Out has gone the Seventies Swedish flat, and in comes New Sweden, all white light and walls. There used to be a contrast between W's life and that of the people he investigated. Now, less so - and tho' this could be a choice that Means Something, it doesn't seem to. The beach is no longer the place they go to contemplate drowning in, it's just a background.
I wonder how this intersects with the Branagh production. The same company is involved in both, but Branagh's stays a lot closer to the books. At the same time, the B. series tends to be set in summer, very colourful, the yellow, red and blue of Skaane in June - it's very much a "the darkness is underneath" theme. The first Swedish Wallanders were more generic police procedual than the British ones, lifted out of it by the gritty photography - all Skaane in winter making one long to get away, anywhere - and the difficult personal relationships. Without that, we've gone back much more to Cop Drama, albeit one still pretty much streets ahead of the competition.
Both Wallanders are made by the same production company, and the Branagh one was a lot slicker to start with, but as it stuck closer to the books,
I suspect that Jussi is going to turn out to be Clinging On to Meaning Now Linda is Dead/Moved away.