On Dec 6, 2005, at 12:55, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> I can elaborate:
Not quite so bad, but a summary of what my own kids (5 and 3) watched a
couple of days ago, an episode in a series running up till Christmas. A
"nisse" is a Nordic variant of an elf:
Moon Peak, featuring Girl Nisse, Mother & Father Nisse, and Cousin Nisse
Scene 1:
Father Nisse speaks to his family. "The mountain is calling me again."
Girl Nisse implores him not to leave, but he has decided. "I'll be back
in a few days." Exit Father.
Scene 2:
Mother wants Girl Nisse to pilfer some oats from the local farm, so she
makes up a story: "When your father comes home he'll be hungry. And if
we don't have any oatmeal for him to eat, he might just eat up all the
blueberry potion." Girl, wide-eyed and frightened: "And then he'll
become a giant!!" Girl consents to fetch oats.
Scene 3:
Father Nisse stands alone with his horse on the snowy peaks of Blue
Mountain. "Why do you keep calling me?" Silence. "What is the answer?"
Silence. "What happened that night so long ago??"
Scene 4:
Girl, fetching oats, meets her Cousin. Cousin teases girl over her
father always being out travelling.
Girl: "But he's a travelling nisse! He can't help it!"
Cousin: "I know why he goes to the Blue Mountain. He's looking for your
twin baby brother who fell out of the sleigh that night you were born
many years ago."
Girl: "?!"
Scene 5:
Father Nisse fetches water on Blue Mountain. His boots sink too deep in
the snow for him to reach the stream, so he uses snowshoes. Long
closeup on snowshoes trudging through snow.
Scene 6:
Girl: "Is it true? Did I have a baby brother who fell out of the sleigh
on Blue Mountain?"
Mother, weeping: "I don't want to talk about it. Ask your father."
Girl leaves to search for Father on the snowy peaks of Blue Mountain.
Scene 7:
Girl finds snowshoe tracks and is convinced her father has eaten all
the blueberry potion and has become a giant. She hides in his sleigh in
despair.
Eventually, father finds girl and comforts her. "It's true. You did
have a twin baby brother. Blue Mountain took him. We don't know what's
become of him now. But we love you very much."
End of episode.
Not exactly "Sesame Street,"
--Knut
>
> The Sveigersons, featuring Erik and Erika.
>
> Opening shot: a long delayed sunset, that never seems to end.
>
> Switch to: Erik (age 7) holding his head in his hands in gloom,
> sitting on a
> bare rock.
>
> ERIK (to Erika): "I'm depressed"
>
> Pan to, after quick shot of Erika (age 5) waking to alertness on her
> slightly smaller bare rock, wide sweep of denuded landscape
> occasionally
> peppered by deserted crumbling villages, starving goats, postcards from
> Grimsby or Skegness saying 'Glad you're not here', upside-down American
> flags, overhead distant Russian clouds of Slavic gloom threatening.
>
> 20 minutes later:
>
> ERIKA: "The world is too much with us"
>
> ERIK nods his head, slowly, ruefully.
>
> In the distance DEATH is seen flapping his wings on a hill.
>
> 10 minutes pause. Slow fade. End of programme.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:29 AM
> Subject: Re: Sex and the Artist
>
>
>> Knut, I like this! I have this vision of kids tv produced by Ingmar
> Bergman
>> .....
>>
>> brilliant
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Knut Mork Skagen" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:07 AM
>> Subject: Re: Sex and the Artist
>>
>>
>>> On Dec 6, 2005, at 03:34, George Hunka wrote:
>>>
>>>> I can't speak for Europeans, but I think we Americans are a little
>>>> afraid of silences and empty spaces; we want to put something there,
>>>> make some noise, have a presence.
>>>
>>> Scandinavians, at least, live almost exclusively off silences and
>>> empty
>>> spaces. Its influence reaches as far as children's television, which
>>> is
>>> full of anxious facial expressions, eery music, and dramatic pause.
>>>
>>> --Knut
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