It’s very exciting to hear that you’re working on another HBO series, with The Righteous Gemstones.
McBRIDE: Yeah, we’re really stoked. We just finished shooting the pilot, about two weeks ago, and we turn it into HBO next week, so hopefully they’ll go ahead and kick this sucker into high gear, and then we’ll jump into shooting this thing, at the beginning of next year. We’re stoked about it. I directed the pilot, and then Jody [Hill] and David [Gordon Green] will be back for the rest of the series. It was awesome. We had a killer time. We have a good cast, and we’re really excited about it. I hope HBO is, too.
What led you to want to do this? Have you always been curious about televangelists or was there a specific one that made you want to tell this story?
McBRIDE: I grew up in the South and I went to church, when I was a kid. My mom was in puppet ministry, and I grew up in a pretty religious household. When my parents got divorced, when I was in middle school, we found ourselves dedicating so much of our lives to the church. My mom was a single mom, raising me and my sister, and we went back to the church that we grew up in and found that people had turned their backs on my mom. They didn’t like the idea that she got a divorce, and they weren’t there to help us. I remember that being an early lesson, when I was young. It’s not that the messages I got in church were bad, but the way that some of the people at this church were using it as a way to make themselves better than other people, it put a chip on my shoulder, from an early age, that I’ve carried with me to my adult life. So, I’ve always secretly wanted to tell that story.
Who are the Gemstones then, and how would you say your character fits into the family?
McBRIDE: The Gemstones are basically a family of world famous televangelists. That was really the main piece of this. This isn’t a hit-piece on religion. With all the shows that we do, it’s always about characters, their relationships to their profession, and how they can use their profession to assume a certain level of respect or power that comes with that. If Gamby can think he’s a ruling king because he’s the principal of the school, or Kenny Powers thinks that because he played baseball than he’s better than everyone else around him, that’s what this is, too. This is a family of world famous televangelists and they do missions, all over the world. They bring in 17,000 people, weekly, to their gigantic mega-church. They pull in a ton of money and are far, far removed from their humble beginnings, when they started. Now, the family has suffered a loss. The mother has passed away, so you meet this family at a moment of crisis, where they’re trying to figure out how things got so far off the rails.
HBO新剧《布道家庭》(The Righteous Gemstones)以美国南方传教士家族为刻画主体,但故事与基督教信仰基本无关,重点在于作为超级教会的创立者、信仰产业的成功者,Gemstones一家人在生活和工作中面临的冲突和挑战。虎父犬子的架构之下,长子、次女、三子的缺陷各不相同,只有一个主要的相似:他们都以赢得老爷子的青睐作为人生前行的主要推动力。置换到中国的背景下,这个剧说的就是一个爱国寺庙如何在几十年内由荒野里的泥土屋发展成为皇宫规模的故事。非信众对大乘小乘、显教密教之间的区别不一定特别感兴趣,真正的故事在于主持们如何不择手段在竞争中取胜以发展壮大佛教事业,高僧们在吃斋的同时还尝点肉、在戒色的同时还从事男女双修等细节当然有助于增加故事的趣味。没有一个老爷子需要众人博取欢心,大家只需要赢得党和政府的支持。
没想到。。。竟然是个大团圆的结局。
比屎还臭
Levi是Jody演的!
黑道家族同时布道。啊,宗教,多少罪恶假汝之名以行!
2019,还可以啊
丹尼·麦克布莱德+乔迪·希尔+大卫·戈登·格林组合的再一次出击,这部剧在人物上的雕琢相当有力,以他们传统的屎尿屁模式写出了好几道美妙的弧。
三星半。编的挺抓马的,不过还是有不少让人噗嗤的笑点,约翰·古德曼这两年回归美剧后体重也减了不少。既然是HBO的招牌,其实可以更好。
故事挺一般的,就是讲述一家人鸡毛蒜皮的小事和利益冲突。只是作为宗教题材,里面埋的梗又不够丰富,跟《年轻的宗教》差远了。所以本质上就是披着宗教皮的美式轻喜剧。只可惜整体剧情够俗,但不够欢乐,够犀利,却不够吸引人,对我来说,属于“浪费时间”级的剧。
太浅,美国宗教荒唐性在里面表现的太过于简单,竟然只是所谓家庭剧的配角而已。没有对美国各类宗教神棍,各类宗教仪式等等的欺诈等等进行深入的挖掘和讽刺,而是关注在描写一个父亲和三个儿女之间的关系。
蹭议题的,既不黑色幽默,也不深刻,没打算揭秘传教产业链,就打算搞个复古流行包装,用黑道维护家族、抢地盘的教父式现成本子往里套。但话题性够强,居然还能看
Joel osteen即视感
距离五星差口气,最好看的戏剧冲突是儿子和神经质的同伙用色情录像一起敲诈父亲,家族成员都被裹挟其中,停车场和小旅馆的部分最好看,本来这条线可以有更多精彩的戏份,可惜被长篇的回溯和兼并当地教会时起的小冲突给稀释了,片尾老父亲伊莱去找开篇意见不合的牧师和解时,才想起来还有这条支线。不过依旧期待第二季。
mcbride式comedy最drama的一次尝试,drama部分没有特别成熟,但有熟悉的“有权力的傻逼一本正经地生活”看已经心满意足。
HBO大投资喜剧。第一季结局居然那么感人...期待父子海地布道大作战第二季
感觉和无耻之徒有些类似,fuck up daily
作为佐饭剧还是能看的
十分钟劝退。
哈哈,不错。
7分,几乎只有搞笑与讽刺这两个元素,故作扭捏的动作和故意浮夸的演技也让剧情更有可看性。这蠢到极致的幽默,还挺有意思的。
。。。暗黑喜剧。盾牌 沃尔顿·戈金斯居然出来露鸟 。。。我也是醉了