FINALMENTE ANCHE IN BOSNIA "IL GRANDE FRATELLO"
La trasmissione televisiva piu' geniale ed interessante di questi anni,
gia' popolare in decine di paesi occidentali, sara' esportata finalmente
anche in Bosnia-Erzegovina. Lutti e tragedie della guerra fratricida e
di spartizione imperialista hanno evidentemente sortito il loro effetto:
anche in Bosnia vincono i profondi valori e la raffinata cultura del
sistema massmediatico occidentale.
"Il Grande Fratello" si basa sulla ripresa diretta e continuata della
vita quotidiana di alcune persone di modesta condizione sociale e scarsa
cultura, recluse in un piccolo ambiente per alcune settimane. Dopo
questo periodo di squallido voyerismo/esibizionismo della propria
nullita', viene dichiarato vincitore chi e' riuscito a dimostrarsi tanto
povero di spirito da non esplodere e non scappare. "Il Grande Fratello"
mira a propagandare la positivita' della vita contemporanea, condotta
senza interessi ne' speranze sotto il vigile, continuo controllo
dell'occhio della cinepresa, che rappresenta in maniera emblematica
Echelon e tutti gli altri sistemi di registrazione/spionaggio della vita
personale, dal Bancomat alla tessera elettronica del bus.
(Italo Slavo)
'BIG BROTHER' GOES TO BOSNIA
Only one thing marred TV viewers' enjoyment of the Bosnian version of
'Big Brother' - nobody took their clothes off.
By Ozren Kebo in Sarajevo
A Bosnian version of the 'Big Brother' television show has riveted
audiences and for once driven ethnic and political prejudice out of
peoples' minds.
The main complaint was an absence of those shower scenes which so roused
such attention in Britain.
It was Bosnia's first 'reality show' and viewers, accustomed to a diet
of sterner TV fare, lapped it up eagerly. The producers sought to show
that Sarajevans want to catch up with Western ways and enjoy themselves
in the process.
None of the five young participants - Mima, from central Bosnian town of
Travnik, Jana from the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, Lav from the
Croatian capital Zagreb, and Slaven and Aleksandra from Sarajevo -
engaged in anything like erotic behaviour.
But their activities in a rented attic were discussed breathlessly all
over the country. The audience divided into two clear camps. Older
people mostly hated it. Younger viewers loved it. Just about nobody
seemed to be indifferent.
The 'Big Brother' participants remained under the TV spotlight for 60
hours.
Their adventure was wound up recently with typically loud Sarajevan
party.
It was so noisy that neighbours called the police. One young officer
turned up but the partygoers thought he was a spoof policeman sent along
by the producers. They ripped off his hat, seized his club and pushed
him into the middle of the dancing crowd.
The officer took it all in good part and joined in the fun. People
afterwards wondered what might have happened if the assignment had
fallen to an older, less good natured cop. 'Big Brother' might have
ended on a less happy note.
The event drew huge interest. There were more then 90,000 visits to the
website that broadcast the show simultaneously as it went out on the
independent OBN television station.
Hundreds of messages were recorded on the Internet, most of them
commenting on the appearance of the participants. "The Slovenian girl
has the best breasts" or "Mima is the cutest" were typical samples.
But occasionally politics and ethnic hatreds did creep in. "Slaven,
Aleksandra, all the Serbs are with you, kill the Ustashas (derogatory
term for Croats) while they are sleeping," read one message.
Another said, "Hey people, did you notice that the Muslims sit only on
the green (colour of many Islamic flags) sofa, and the others on the
white one?" There was some suspicion these messages were
tongue-in-cheek.
Most of the attention focused not on nationalities but on the refusal of
participants to display themselves naked. Six months ago, a girl from
Zagreb, Andrea, had a shower in front of the cameras during a similar
show in Croatia. She won the hearts of Croatians but later lost her job
as a salesperson.
On the morning after the Sarajevo show ended, the five performers found
they had become stars. When they went into the city for breakfast, they
were mobbed by viewers. Almost everyone in the crowd seemed to know who
they were.
The marketing agency Fabrika (Factory), which helped organise the show,
was deluged with applications from young people seeking a part in the
next 'Big Brother'. So far no follow-up programme has been planned.
Weeks after it ended, the show remained a hot topic of conversation.
Most older people still like to talk about the beautifully decorated
attic where the show was staged. They criticised the "futile life which
modern youngsters lead".
One elderly women complained on a radio talk show that "three of them
turned their back to the camera and chatted over the Internet, while two
others just played video games. They spent 90 per cent of their time
like that.
"There was no intelligent discussion, no joke, not even one mature or
interesting remark. It seemed that the five of them hadn't read more
than 10 books in their lives."
Younger people had no such complaints. They talked approvingly about the
choice of music, the clothes and the tattoos. Haris Pasovic, a
well-known movie director from Sarajevo, said he hated the reality show
concept which he sees as yet another attempt to make TV the most
important element in people's lives. However, even Pasovic took comfort
from the fact that Bosnia is, at least, following world trends.
Ozren Kebo is a commentator for the Sarajevo weekly Slobodna Bosna.
(Source:
IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, NO. 268, August 3, 2001
http://www.iwpr.net)
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La trasmissione televisiva piu' geniale ed interessante di questi anni,
gia' popolare in decine di paesi occidentali, sara' esportata finalmente
anche in Bosnia-Erzegovina. Lutti e tragedie della guerra fratricida e
di spartizione imperialista hanno evidentemente sortito il loro effetto:
anche in Bosnia vincono i profondi valori e la raffinata cultura del
sistema massmediatico occidentale.
"Il Grande Fratello" si basa sulla ripresa diretta e continuata della
vita quotidiana di alcune persone di modesta condizione sociale e scarsa
cultura, recluse in un piccolo ambiente per alcune settimane. Dopo
questo periodo di squallido voyerismo/esibizionismo della propria
nullita', viene dichiarato vincitore chi e' riuscito a dimostrarsi tanto
povero di spirito da non esplodere e non scappare. "Il Grande Fratello"
mira a propagandare la positivita' della vita contemporanea, condotta
senza interessi ne' speranze sotto il vigile, continuo controllo
dell'occhio della cinepresa, che rappresenta in maniera emblematica
Echelon e tutti gli altri sistemi di registrazione/spionaggio della vita
personale, dal Bancomat alla tessera elettronica del bus.
(Italo Slavo)
'BIG BROTHER' GOES TO BOSNIA
Only one thing marred TV viewers' enjoyment of the Bosnian version of
'Big Brother' - nobody took their clothes off.
By Ozren Kebo in Sarajevo
A Bosnian version of the 'Big Brother' television show has riveted
audiences and for once driven ethnic and political prejudice out of
peoples' minds.
The main complaint was an absence of those shower scenes which so roused
such attention in Britain.
It was Bosnia's first 'reality show' and viewers, accustomed to a diet
of sterner TV fare, lapped it up eagerly. The producers sought to show
that Sarajevans want to catch up with Western ways and enjoy themselves
in the process.
None of the five young participants - Mima, from central Bosnian town of
Travnik, Jana from the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, Lav from the
Croatian capital Zagreb, and Slaven and Aleksandra from Sarajevo -
engaged in anything like erotic behaviour.
But their activities in a rented attic were discussed breathlessly all
over the country. The audience divided into two clear camps. Older
people mostly hated it. Younger viewers loved it. Just about nobody
seemed to be indifferent.
The 'Big Brother' participants remained under the TV spotlight for 60
hours.
Their adventure was wound up recently with typically loud Sarajevan
party.
It was so noisy that neighbours called the police. One young officer
turned up but the partygoers thought he was a spoof policeman sent along
by the producers. They ripped off his hat, seized his club and pushed
him into the middle of the dancing crowd.
The officer took it all in good part and joined in the fun. People
afterwards wondered what might have happened if the assignment had
fallen to an older, less good natured cop. 'Big Brother' might have
ended on a less happy note.
The event drew huge interest. There were more then 90,000 visits to the
website that broadcast the show simultaneously as it went out on the
independent OBN television station.
Hundreds of messages were recorded on the Internet, most of them
commenting on the appearance of the participants. "The Slovenian girl
has the best breasts" or "Mima is the cutest" were typical samples.
But occasionally politics and ethnic hatreds did creep in. "Slaven,
Aleksandra, all the Serbs are with you, kill the Ustashas (derogatory
term for Croats) while they are sleeping," read one message.
Another said, "Hey people, did you notice that the Muslims sit only on
the green (colour of many Islamic flags) sofa, and the others on the
white one?" There was some suspicion these messages were
tongue-in-cheek.
Most of the attention focused not on nationalities but on the refusal of
participants to display themselves naked. Six months ago, a girl from
Zagreb, Andrea, had a shower in front of the cameras during a similar
show in Croatia. She won the hearts of Croatians but later lost her job
as a salesperson.
On the morning after the Sarajevo show ended, the five performers found
they had become stars. When they went into the city for breakfast, they
were mobbed by viewers. Almost everyone in the crowd seemed to know who
they were.
The marketing agency Fabrika (Factory), which helped organise the show,
was deluged with applications from young people seeking a part in the
next 'Big Brother'. So far no follow-up programme has been planned.
Weeks after it ended, the show remained a hot topic of conversation.
Most older people still like to talk about the beautifully decorated
attic where the show was staged. They criticised the "futile life which
modern youngsters lead".
One elderly women complained on a radio talk show that "three of them
turned their back to the camera and chatted over the Internet, while two
others just played video games. They spent 90 per cent of their time
like that.
"There was no intelligent discussion, no joke, not even one mature or
interesting remark. It seemed that the five of them hadn't read more
than 10 books in their lives."
Younger people had no such complaints. They talked approvingly about the
choice of music, the clothes and the tattoos. Haris Pasovic, a
well-known movie director from Sarajevo, said he hated the reality show
concept which he sees as yet another attempt to make TV the most
important element in people's lives. However, even Pasovic took comfort
from the fact that Bosnia is, at least, following world trends.
Ozren Kebo is a commentator for the Sarajevo weekly Slobodna Bosna.
(Source:
IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, NO. 268, August 3, 2001
http://www.iwpr.net)
---
Questa lista e' curata da componenti del
Coordinamento Nazionale per la Jugoslavia (CNJ).
I documenti distribuiti non rispecchiano necessariamente
le posizioni ufficiali o condivise da tutto il CNJ, ma
vengono fatti circolare per il loro contenuto informativo al
solo scopo di segnalazione e commento ("for fair use only").
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