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2008-08-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Turkish soap 'Nour' takes Arab world by storm

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Posted by Fred 2008-08-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Despite being branded "subversive" and "anti-Islamic" by top Muslim clerics...

Introduce some plots involving acid. Or goats. That should get them on board.

Posted by tu3031 2008-08-26 09:25|| 2008-08-26 09:25|| Front Page Top

#2 This is hilarious. Some of the biggest TV shows in the world are Mexican soap operas, which are broadcast everywhere and are universally themed, which amounts to two things:

"I love you, but our love is forbidden", and

"The honor of our family has been ruined!".

Everything else is window dressing.

In this case, every Muslim TV production unit is probably trying to come up with their own version more specific to their region, in a feeding frenzy not seen since somebody came up with the idea for a sitcom in the US.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-08-26 11:07|| 2008-08-26 11:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Link does not work.

Posted by Fozen Al 2008-08-26 11:52|| 2008-08-26 11:52|| Front Page Top

#4 They got some hot babes in those Mexican soaps. I try to watch them sometimes by arguing that I wanna learn Spanish but Mrs. Uluque won't buy it.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-08-26 12:04|| 2008-08-26 12:04|| Front Page Top

#5 And actually, this is the best way to bring sub-literate populations face to face with certain verities. Put them in a story they can engage with, with characters they can relate to, and have sympathies for. S**t, most of the world does not read serious and heavy social-political texts. They follow stories of people, people that they see as real, and struggling with the same kind of problems that they contend with in real life. Television soaps are just the medium. A hundred years ago it was a melodrama on stage at the cheap vaudeville house, or the puppet show on the corner. You get to that particular demographic by telling them stories and squeezing in the message subtly. Seriously, if I were a clever person somewhere in the bowels of the State Department (oh, yeah, is that a contradiction in terms!) I would be working out a clever way to invisibly fund some more of this kind of drama, broadcast to a Middle East audience. (Is this the case? Oh, my... didn't mean to blow the cover. Shusssh. Pretend I didn't say a thing. Mum's the word.)

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