Lizbeth Marcs ([identity profile] liz-marcs.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] liz_marcs 2008-07-18 10:43 pm (UTC)

The fuck scene...that is such a thing of beauty.

I think somewhere in commentary for Season 3 you find out the genesis of Bunk's and McNulty's "fuck" dialog. It was based on a throw-away one-linger from a homicide cop that Simon had followed while he was researching Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets.

Apparently, the cop was joking about the fact that at some point all dialog at a crime scene was going to consist of just that one word of "fuck," just using different intonations to get across what the fuck actually means.

Years later, he remembered it, and decided to find out if it could be done.

The thing that really blows my mind about the main cast of the Wire during the first four seasons? At least three of them were from the UK (Dominic West — McNulty; Idris Elba — Stringer Bell; Aidan Gillen — Tommy Carcetti) and one has lived in London for 30 years (Clarke Peters — Lester Freamon).

Also, the guy who was the basis for Munch in Homicide(Jay Landsmen is his real name) had a speaking part in The Wire during Seasons 3 and 4 (He played the Sgt. in the Western District who'd give the shift briefings. Old guy. Glasses. Mustache. Really, really broad Baltimore accent.)

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