Saturday, 19 January 2013

Law and Order.

Law and Order.

J.R.Hartley

Another lazy Saturday draws to a close, so its time to pour the drinks, cook the chips and settle down to my favourite show, Law and order, and being British of course when i say this i do not mean out awful rendition of law and order, no, i mean the Original one, set in the thumping heart of New York.

Firstly i shall say, Law and order has the most Bad ass theme tune of any Tv show-ever. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVL0GBunw0A
- So 70's sounding :D

I Watch law and order on the recently named FOX formerly known as, FX. such is this i am only able to watch the first 9 of 20 seasons, but i watch the same episodes over and over, Law and Order happens to be one of those shows that every time you watch you get a new angle and set of details from.

Although claiming to be fictional you can normally find a good legal precedent in there from a real case that was in the news at the time of writing that show, to me having a good set of precedents under your belt does tend to be helpful in debates and conversations with law as a central topic.

With Law and Order also, it is not just pumping mindless entertainment and cheap laughs into you, it is much more than this, it is a comedy, Ethics, History, Sociology, Science, Psychology and Anthropology lesson all rolled into 456 easy 60 minute lessons, if you watch every episode. I make this claim because the show is written very well, for example The detective  Lenny Briscoe, Played by Jerry Orbach would always have a witty pun just before the opening credits played and this could be used over and over and it would still remain funny. Ethics  come into the equation throughout the episode as the Characters constantly discuss the repercussions of certain actions, such as murder, fraud, the death penalty  religion and politics always hot topics, but always taken on by the writing staff with an informative frame of mind. Science comes in to play like many other shows of the crime nature, with Forensics, and all such a manner of things.

The two things that Law and order do outstandingly well are Psychology and Anthropology, Now for those of you who do not know they are basically the study of people, because the show covers New York it has a wide range of people it has looked at and the the crimes they can commit, for example, wall street bankers murdering their boss for millions of dollars, Latino men shooting men who had raped their wife, Elderly white folks being robbed by drug abusers, on the face of it these cases seem every mundane but it is the level of psychoanalytical research that the writers did that really puts a good spin on the mindset of the victims and people who carried out these horrid crimes.

Now, just to talk about my favourite Actor from Law and Order, Now to americans if you say law and order, the first thing the comes to mind for them is Lenny Briscoe, Played by Jerry Orbach, I am not even going to describe him to you as he is not worthy of my writings, instead i shall merely tell you about the amazing things Jerry Orbach appeared in, in his long careerer before dying of Prostate Cancer on December 28th 2004

Broadway

Off Broadway

Filmography


Television


Note: Jerry Orbach voiced two Disney characters; Lumiere from Beauty & tne Beast and Sa'luk from Aladdin and the King of Thieves.


  



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