Pre-celebrity and fakeness / Why are “vertigos” made?
Fars News Agency – Art and Media Group: For some time now, there has been a very high number of home television network productions, some of which are not only not seen in the existing glamorous market, but even their names do not remain in the mind, works which sometimes try to use celebrities to get customers for themselves. to step
But perhaps the strangest case among them are the investors who apparently waste their money and financial resources for works that are neither seen nor have a financial return. Many of these serials that are made do not have much cultural impact, nor do they help the audience’s taste from the point of view of aesthetics and art. Indeed, in this field of serialization, if the final intention and goal is not even the return of expenses, then what goals are hidden behind such productions?
In this report, on the one hand, focusing on the content and structure, and on the other hand, introducing the producer and investor of one of the series of the Home Show network, we will try to analyze the hidden dimensions behind the production of such works.
* “Vertigo” series; Full of celebrity, weak in story, confused in structure
“Behrang Tawfighi” is a familiar name in the field of television serialization. Serials such as Beautiful Revolution, Amen, Tehran Roof, Under the Foot of Mother and Father are among the works of this filmmaker that have been able to satisfy the audience to some extent. After the successful experience of “Aghazadeh” series on the home television network, this filmmaker has now returned to the home television network with the “Sargyjeh” series, a series that has no flavor of his past successes. Even though 15 episodes of the series “Dizzy” have been published, for example, it is becoming confusing and losing its limited audience day by day. This series has not presented teething content, nor has the ability to tell stories, nor has it taken a new approach from the point of view of structure. In fact, this work continues a series of repetitive games in the background of a low-quality story, and it seems that even its director is not clear where it is going to end.
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In a general view, “Vertigo” wants to introduce a new form of police stories into the serialization of the home network by depicting a complex criminal story, in the heart of a love triangle that is infected with betrayal, but the filmmaker, due to his unquestioning adherence to The stereotypical pattern of home show series, which is the use of famous actors and the display of luxury and luxury life of its characters, has not been able to narrate an attractive and captivating story and discourages the audience from watching superficial, weak and sometimes meaningless series of the home show network.
Contrary to its apparent splendor, due to the lack of narrative logic of the script, this series is superficial and predictable with knots that the audience easily knows the outcome of. A part of the story of this series, like other Behrang Tawfighi productions such as “Father” and “Aghazadeh”, is narrated by flashback. This narrative method can create guesses to solve the mystery of the story in the audience’s mind, but the slow pace of the “Dizzy” story and the little useful time it has have caused serious damage to the series. It has been several episodes that Kamran (Hadi Hijazifar)’s target audience is alive, but in order to drag out the story and possibly earn more money, the audience sees Peyman Powish (Hamed Behdad) spinning around in vain and the story does not progress at all.
In fact, the questions that are created in the audience’s mind to better understand the connections, due to the existence of these long suspensions, become so bold that it weakens the audience’s relationship with the story. On the other hand, it is not clear that Mr. Jalal, as a representative of white-collar criminals, whom the filmmaker is trying to make a powerful, influential and at the same time mysterious character, how can he not find and catch Kamran and the Bitcoin thief with all this arrogance?!
In fact, the reactions of the characters in front of events and events, for example, are cold and artificial, which makes the audience greedy, and the audience gets dizzy from this amount of stupidity and ignorance of the characters.
* Vacancy of a true family
If we want to take a look at the series from the perspective of cultural influences, “Sargijeh” is very similar to vulgar and vulgar Turkish series in terms of content. There is no good and appropriate model of the family in this work, family members are mainly in challenges and conflicts with each other, this conflict also occurs between spouses, children and their parents. Conflicts that not only create sensory stops and aesthetic effects, but also hit the audience’s taste.
On the other hand, like vulgar Turkish series, “Betrayal” is one of the main sources of script formation. Intimate relationship between married men and other married women as family friends is definitely not a good thing to normalize these relationships.
The best safe and favorable environment for the teenage girl in the story is Melody’s friendly atmosphere, which is mainly shown in her party and friendly parties. As a teenager, Melody has neither a good father nor a proper mother to look after her, Parisa (Shabnam Moghadami) is never at home and Melody has practically turned the house into a hangout for her friends, young girls and boys with unusual looks and clothes who Regardless of mahram and non-mahram, they sing rap songs together, and this is the image that the filmmaker wants to instill in the audience of today’s generation by defaming the customary and moral norms of the society.
*Appeal to famous actors is a repeated tactic to attract the audience
“Vertigo” carries only the names of well-known actors, actors who cannot provide acceptable performances due to Elkann’s script and weak characterization; Fariba is an accused woman with low self-confidence, unlike Azadivar’s role in “Zhamkari”. Scared and unable to manage himself properly. Fariba, as one of the mothers in the story, neglects her little child and commits suicide when her betrayal is revealed, in order to portray an image of an unclean woman and a weak and cowardly mother.
Rana Azadivar has tried to cope with this role properly, but even the constant stress in her face, eyes and voice does not make her acting acceptable.
Another actor of this series is Human Sidi, Sidi has played the role of a policeman after repeating the role of the eye-catching and witty boys in the home show series, a role that could have been a special event in his career, but he played the role of Colonel Badee. has been shown with a repetitive formula and a cold and dry game. Hamed Behdad, Shabnam Moghadami, Mehraveh Sharifinia, Payam Dehkordi, etc., none of them have said anything new and are completely involved in playing stereotypes and repeating themselves.
After the qualitative analysis of the structure and content of the “Vertigo” series, the question arises, why are such weak and idealess works made for what reasons? In the following, we will try to reveal the hidden dimensions of the creation of such works by analyzing the production situation of this new optical work.
* What are the funds spent on?!
These days, it is simple and easy for ordinary people who have the least connection with the home theater network to know popular works from less popular ones. You only need to have a half glance at the virtual space and look at the pages of different people to find out if a work is popular or not. No?!
Investing in a series like “Lion’s skin” will be natural and of course accompanied by a suitable financial return for its producer, and why this is done is clear from the investor’s side, but what benefit will a series like “Vertigo” have for its producer with a return on investment and attracting a low audience?
Basically, “Vertigo” will fail in terms of attracting the audience and, consequently, in terms of financial return and profit for the serial producer. In the following, by going through further analysis of the content and structure of the work, we will have a look at the factors that produced this film so that we can get clearer reasons for making such works.
* A look at the portfolio of the investor and producer of “Sargijeh”
The name of Alireza Marashinia has been registered as the investor of the series “Sargijeh” and the name of Mehdi Baderlou as the producer of the series, people who do not seem to have any past in media productions.
But with a little research, it can be concluded that Seyyed Mohammad Ali Marashinia (the father of the producer of the series), known as Ahmad Marashi, is originally from Khuzestan and is one of the leaders and influential people among Gonabadi dervishes. According to what has been heard, the closeness and closeness of the aforementioned with elders and sheikhs of Gonabadi Dervish Sect is to such an extent that a significant part of the financial and economic capital of this sect has been given to them to invest and spend in various matters.
For example, in 2015, an amount of about twenty billion Rials, due to his closeness to Yusuf Mardani, one of the great dervish sheikhs of Gonabadi and Sheikh Dervish in Karaj, was placed at the disposal of Mr. Marashi through the charity and assistance fund. to spend
Noor Ali Tabandeh Qutb Darvish’s letter to Mohammad Ali Marashinia
The mentioned has a large commercial and financial holding with high income generation in various economic fields, most of these activities are registered in the form of a company under the name of Majzoob Sazeh Khuzestan Company (private equity).
Now, with all the above explanations, this huge financial and economic group, which is related to influential people in the emerging sects and religions and Gonabadi dervishes, has been for some time through the eldest son of Seyed Mohammad Ali Marashinia, named Seyed Alireza Marashinia, who is the manager of the Tehran branch of this holding and one of the partners. Their trust in the name of Homan Hatfipour has entered the field of culture, art and media in a very thought-provoking way, especially investing in the production of popular series in the home network and platforms, so that perhaps by investing in this field, they can gain more popularity to gain fame. and purifying and using propaganda in order to spread the ideas of their sect.
It is even heard that Homan Hatfipour, who refers to himself as a doctor, was banned from teaching in the country’s universities due to his tendencies and closeness to dervishes, as well as helping and supporting political prisoners. in progress
It goes without saying that income generation and employment in the field of culture and art cannot be compared with other economic and commercial fields, and it is definitely a significant and suitable space for justifying investment and return of capital and significant profit in this field, except for the people of culture and art who have minimum incomes in this field. They are satisfied, it doesn’t exist unless other purposeful intentions and plans are hidden behind this investment.
It seems that the intention behind the curtain of the organizers of this huge economic complex, as mentioned before, in addition to purifying the money of this sect, is to gain fame and exploit credit from the art community and artists, especially cinematographers; In such a short time, their name has become popular.
*last word
In the end, it should be said that “Vertigo” does not have any special features that will encourage the audience to watch it. The series is full of structural and content weaknesses that have slowed down the narrative of the story so far. Weaknesses that can be seen not only in the narration and characterization, but also in the details of decoupage and mise-en-scène.
The creators of “Dizzy” like other home show series of the last few years have taken advantage of the slight differences in the field of supervision and a slightly more open space compared to the national media and the official view in the literal sense of the word and by telling a seemingly mysterious story, they carelessly and recklessly exposed all kinds of social pollution They have portrayed the intention of attracting the attention of the audience. In fact, in reviewing this series full of celebrities and weak, the question that still remains is to find a convincing reason for making it?
Maybe the clues that were provided from the performance and position of the producer and investor of the series can clarify the blind knots of the narrative of “Vertigo” before Elkan’s content.
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