The Prisoner Nummer 6
The
sediments at the bottom of television: series and serials, omnipresent
and almost as infinite as the medium itself. Few only were successfull
in touching the underside of our attentiveness.
UNWAHRSCHEINLICHE GESCHICHTEN ("Improbable Stories") was one
that did, the classic TWILIGHT ZONE.
Anything associated with the expression TV-magic
applies to this.
Phantastic
television of the sixties, among other things, is one conjuring formula:
"Be
seeing you!" or
L'année dernière
au Village:
CONTRIBUTING
AUTHORS:
(GERMAN KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED)
| MIT BEITRÄGEN FOLGENDER AUTOREN: |
DAVE BARRIE  |
| FRANK T. BITTERHOF |
| TOBIAS BECKER |
| M. KEITH BOOKER |
| MICHAEL BRÜNE |
| PATRICK DUCHER |
| ROBERT FAIRCLOUGH |
| HOWARD FOY |
| GUILLAUME GRANIER |
| LARRY HALL |
| HARALD KELLER |
| MOOR LARKIN |
| KEVIN P. MAHONEY |
| RICK McGRATH |
| JANA MÜLLER |
| CHRIS RODLEY |
| CHRISTOPH WINDER |
| VALARIE ZIEGLER |
LOCUS AMOENUS
The first
is the hallmark episode that sets the tone for everything that happens within a microcosmos
of ubiquitous providence and eccentric occurences.
Without any doubt it's the very place where the outdoor shooting was made
that conveys the show's overall impression. The Village, an eclecticistic
collection of fantasy building styles and features, is both stunning and fundamental
to the series. The Village ist the
most important supporting actor.
Wisely,
the place is never located temporally or locally by the production. At
least, that is, until the ultimate episode. But even the signposted "A20"
motorway to nearby London may be a disorienting clue on a higher level
of interpretation.
It is a timeless relic as well as a contemporary artefact, the place where
the real matches the realistic.
"Welcome
home from Home" reads a note on his desk. Upon his arrival Number
Six takes a walk round an early morning place. Excited he is, wants to
know where he is and he enters the local shop where he demands a map of the Place and its environs from
the shop keeper. Nightmarish, perplexing and oppressing: the place is The
Place, the sea is The Sea, the mountains are The Mountains...
Deja-vu - tautology, a shimmering of meaning: everything is just what
it is.
Cabs will undertake only local rides, public phones allow only local calls,
canned food displays a "Village Food" label only. And public
speaker announcements spreading anti-information in a news-like manner:
ice-cream is on sale, "the flavour of the day is strawberry."
There is no questioning the outside. The inmates's way of saluting each other is both joyful and subliminally threatening at the same time: "Wir sehen uns!" ("Be seeing you!").
