I have a huge lie for you, Trump won the 2020 election. That is such a big lie I guarantee you somebody might actually believe it because people are that stupid. Even though we faces proving no fraud, people are just that stupid.
markwest1987 Fun fact: google Jay Landsman. It’s both the name of the professor here and the actual name of the actor who plays Major Colvin’s main man in season 3
I saw David Simon in late night talking about how the actor who played Landsman just was naturally funny. They would give him lines that necessarily weren’t jokes and hed make them work. It’s why he’s not on a lot, if they over used him he wouldn’t be funny anymore
The writer is smart to have created this scenebut its actually a sad scene but thats how it goes. Because we as young black men be out there breaking laws but we dont know how to prepiar to defend our selves now if he was smart enough he would not say anything with out representation.and that what they did was against the law. But we dont anything as young black men.
@Eric Johnson Yeah nah. I don't care how hood you are, if you can't tell the difference between a god damn copying machine and a lie detector, you dumb as fuck.
The worst part is that its based on a true story. The Detroit police department did this exact thing multiple times in the 1980s to great effect, which is where David Simon got the idea
As funny as this scene is, it really reinforces what Randy says to Bunk at the end of the season! "Thats what you do... You lie to dumb ass niggas" The writing on this show is just pure brilliance!!!
''Americans are a pretty stupid people by and large. We pretty much believe whatever we're told.'' This line.. it feels like David Simon speaking directly through the character. It always stood out to me how on-the-nose and out of place it is in this scene... it's unlikely that in that situation the detective would have chosen to generalize the American people, as opposed to corner hoppers, or any other subset of people that could've fit the bill. There's a few jabs here and there that are like this during the series, but this one REALLY stands out and pierces the screen. I think they knew that and left it in anyways. I get that this was paired with the end line ''The bigger the lie, the more they believe.'', but that one is an example of Simon's commentary meshing seamlessly with story frame, while the first one really isn't. It's almost like ''Do you get it now you stupid bastards?''. No show ever came close to this one.
Monnell, the guy eating McDonald's, paid Randy $5 to be look out while him and some other kid ran a train on a girl in School bathroom. When they all got in trouble, Randy ended up snitching on him.
Word that's the same kid? I think he was in the troubled kids class season 4 too! I never knew that crazy the lil shit u pick up even though I seen the show 100 times #bestever
Holy shit!! Every time I think I know everything about this show something like that comes to light. Randy snitching set off the whole story for the rest of that season and the rest of his life… little Kevin getting took because of it, Randy house getting burned down, bodie getting arrested out of anger because of little Kevin, then getting picked up by mcnulty and seen by monk, then getting killed by Michael. Crazy. It’s all connected.
"Are we ready professor?" is my favorite art of all this. Them calling Landsman a professor is the cherry on top of how they go about manipulating this gullible as shit kid.
"The bigger the lie, the more they believe." That sets the theme for this entire season. Seriously, think about it. One of the focuses is the Baltimore Sun and media reporting. The reporter, Scott Templeton, frequently falsifies quotes to make his stories seem better, but as the season progresses, the lies start to get bigger and bigger. Once his stories begin to gain traction, he pretty much stops at nothing to gain coverage. But as his lies grow bigger, so does his popularity at the Sun and even in the outside world - he's invited to a national talk show, and even ends up winning a Pulitzer at the end. But it was based almost entirely on bullshit. And then, you have the police angle with McNulty. McNulty literally creates a serial killer by manipulating bodies and evidence for the purpose of screwing the department and the city, and to get more funding for the department in general. At the beginning, everyone ignored his serial killer angle. But as he spread the bullshit through the press and got more elaborate in the manipulation with Lester, all eyes focused on him and the Homicide unit. As the lie got bigger, everyone believed it more, and they eventually got what they wanted - overtime, new patrol cars, etc.
Nick L. But as Jimmy McNulty has said, he knows why he did what he did, and that was to get Marlo Stanfield behind bars, whereas in Scott Templeton lied just for a damn medal.
I can see that. Take someone from a poor neighborhood whose never been around or had need for a professional copy machine how are they supposed to know what it is or looks like? But it’s not to say they are dumb though, it’s more about exposure. When it comes to the streets they are quick and fast to learn about the rules since one mistake out there can mean your life.
I love how journalism is the central theme of the fifth season and the start of this scene looks like an interview for a newspaper or a documentary but nope, this is still a police station and they're doing what they've always done
This is one of the best fucking scenes of any tv show of all time. First, the season, which is about crime journalism, opens up with a sequence that seems Bunk is being interviewed by some reporter, but in fact he's scaring the shit out of some idiot that killed someone in an alley Then the cops take advantage of the criminal's ignorance in order to get a confession, representing how degenerated is the situation of modern law enforcement agencies in deprived towns "The bigger the lie, the more they believe": That line summarizes the entire season
The actually did this in the 1980's Baltimore Police Department, but that was when technology and the people who lived in the ghetto were very separated. Now everyone has a cell phone and computer. I just don't know if this technique would still work.
Because it's nothing like entrapment. At all. Entrapment is when the police convince someone to commit a crime they would otherwise not do or had any intention of doing before hand.
The actor playing Bunk had his father's house destroyed by Kathrina in New Orleans. Check him in an awesome documental "When the Levees Broke" by Spike Lee, he seems to be such a nice dude and the insurance companies that dealt with his problem were such criminal assholes...
When we shot this scene I never said is all because I didn’t think it would sound authentic come from Baltimore….but that’s the shot they chose lol I feel the same way tho
Seriously I could really own right now with facts but all I'll say is look at all the major studies done in the past 15 years in regards to educational rankings amongst countries. You'll find that in the majority of that time when it comes to all major subjects, that includes, math, science, technology, language arts, etc... the United States rarely ranks in the top 20 let alone the top 10 in any of them. We are amongst the least innovative 1st world countries in the world right now.
right, that was entrapment because the police told him Hamsterdam was safe, therefore being arrested for going there to sell drugs would be entrapment.
