Corrupt: l'épisode non diffusé

Corrupt, écrit par David Fury, était censé être le deuxième épisode d'Ats. Deux jours avant que la production commence, il a été ordonné que le tournage ne commence pas parce que The WB pensait que l'épisode était trop sombre. Vous pourrez remarquer que ce script et le "vrai" deuxième épisode ("Angel fait équipe," aussi écrit par David Fury,) ont beaucoup de choses en commun. D'autres parties du scripts ont été cannibalisée et utilisée dans d'autres épisodes d'Angel.

Sur ce lien, vous trouverez le brouillon du scénariste:

http://www.geocities.com/invisiblegreen/corrupt/corrupt.html


Je vous le traduirais après les exams (ou plus tôt si je me sens l'inspiration, lol)

Merci miss , j'avais deja lu un article la dessus , je pensse que ça raconte la meme chose lool , il faut dire qu'en effet cet èpisode ètait vraiment très sombre a la base , une kate qui se prostitue et qui se drogue , ça aurait peut etre fait un peu trash lool

merci a.a.k, je vais essayer d'aller voir ca quand j'aurais du temps...j'avais jamais entendu parler de ca!

Ah ben moi je l'ai relu et je le trouve vachement mieux que Lonely Heart. L'intrigue est quand même quelque peu différente, et on a des scènes carrément géniales (dont certaines sont reprises dans d'autres épisodes, comme la "pub" avec The dark avenger). Puis voilà, oui, c'est plus sombre, mais c'est pas non plus trop harsh. Kate est en fait un flic en couverture depuis deux ans, qui a fini par se laisser submerger par le monde de débauche dans lequel elle a été plongée...

Et oh, y a une scène trop forte où Cor va se mêler aux prostituées de la rue pour avoir des infos, j'aurais bien voulu voir ça ^^

Et un moment qui m'a trop fait rire et que j'aurais vraiment voulu voir dans la série:

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BILLY
So... Curious John. What are you doing following me? Who are you?

Angel looks around at his opposition, taking stock of his situation, considering his reply. He turns back to Billy.


ANGEL
The Dark Avenger.

The bat-wielding pimps look blankly at him, then at each other, not really sure how to respond.


ANGEL
(shrugging)
Thought I'd give it a shot.

Je visualise trop bien la scène ^^

Je trouve l'idée d'une Kate qui s'est laissée submergée par la drogue et la prostitution plutôt sympa !! J'aurais vraiment voulu voir ce qu'un épisode comme ça aurait donné. Dommage...

a.a.k a écrit:

Et oh, y a une scène trop forte où Cor va se mêler aux prostituées de la rue pour avoir des infos, j'aurais bien voulu voir ça ^^

Et un moment qui m'a trop fait rire et que j'aurais vraiment voulu voir dans la série:

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BILLY
So... Curious John. What are you doing following me? Who are you?

Angel looks around at his opposition, taking stock of his situation, considering his reply. He turns back to Billy.


ANGEL
The Dark Avenger.

The bat-wielding pimps look blankly at him, then at each other, not really sure how to respond.


ANGEL
(shrugging)
Thought I'd give it a shot.

Je visualise trop bien la scène ^^

Je suis du même avis à ce sujet, c'était vraiment des choses à voir. Et puis, ça ne m'aurait pas dérangé qu'il soit plus sombre.

Ca aurait pu être vraiment génial à découvrir.

Des trucs trouvés sur wikipedia.

Les scénaristes parlent de l'épisode:

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David Fury commented that:
And along those lines the second episode that I'd written called 'Corrupt' - it was pretty much about junkie prostitutes. Not usually what you see on the WB. And Kate, the police woman character on the show... originally was an undercover cop who was addicted to cocaine and was sleeping with men for money, because she got a little bit too far into her undercover work.

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Tim Minear said a few words about the unproduced episode:
David Fury, who wrote this episode, had written a script called ‘Corrupt’ in which Kate was a police officer working undercover as a prostitute who was actually becoming a prostitute and was addicted to crack. That was originally the introduction of Kate. Obviously we were still trying to figure out what the show was at that point. This was the first episode after the pilot, and it was written before the new staff arrived. They just went incredibly dark with this thing and decided at the end of the day that it was a little bit too hopeless, a little too grim. After that episode was written it was actually being prepped when the network, too, had some concerns about it.`
It would seem that this was about the same time that the Internet ran rampant with rumors that the WB had shut down the show for retooling. You can’t really call it a shut down because we hadn’t really started,` Minear clarifies. `We just pushed back the shoot date for the first episode a week or two. It’s not like alarms went off and we had to pull plugs on everything. I’ve read on the Internet where people were saying the network freaked, and they told us to shut down, and that’s not true at all. We were still creating what the idea of the show was going to be, and basically we decided to rethink that first episode. The other thing that people don’t realize is that a lot of the other episodes that we’ve done this year were written much earlier and did not change significantly. It was really that first episode where we went back, rethought it, and we were lucky we had the luxury to do that.

Toujours trouvé sur wikipedia (j'ai la flemme de traduire maintenant, sorry):

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• Acting
  CORDELIA: "So, how's tricks, fellow hookers?"
  STREETWALKER #1: "Bitch, if you're living the life, I'm Julia Roberts."
  
  Cordelia proves her bad acting skills investigating under cover, trying to use her disguise to inquire what is happening on the street.
  

• Addiction
  ANGEL: "I'm sure when you started you were immune to the temptations. At first. Then maybe to protect your cover, you indulged once, twice. No problem. Cross one line, you draw another. Cross that one, draw another. Cross that, draw another... 'Til it's not even you doing it anymore. It's her. Then it becomes easy. You can do anything. You can't get close to this world and not have it rub off on you."
  
  Angel is also talking about his own desire/addiction for human blood. He drank Buffy's blood in "Graduation Day, Part Two," and in a scene cut from "City of" also drank the blood from a murder victim.

• Demon heritage
  CORDELIA: If we have to rely on demon-boy here to get one of his visions every time we need a client, we'll be broke in a month.
  DOYLE: Stop calling me "demon-boy."
  
  In this story, Cordelia already knows about Doyle's demon heritage. In the series she would not find out for several months until the episode "Hero."

• Evil
  ANGEL (to Chrystal): I've run across evil before. Never once found any to be necessary.
  
  The series would later spend years delving into the need for balance between good and evil rather than the overwhelming control of one over the other. A world without evil was proposed by Jasmine. Many of the main characters would behave in more ambiguous gray areas rather than simply fight for the cause of good.

• Humanity corrupted?
  T'PUROK: You think you can make a difference? As long as there are souls -- weak, wounded, begging to be perverted - I'm everywhere and eternal. I'll be around when the last of humanity eats itself alive -- Oh, it's going to be beautiful!
  Angel raises the ax over his head.
  T'PUROK: (continuing; rising in pitch) Kill me?! Kill a hundred of me! You are one, where I am a THOUSAND!"
  Angel swings the ax. It lands (off-camera) with the appetizing CHUNK sound of something's head being cleaved in two. He eyes the demon's corpse for a moment...
  ANGEL: Nine hundred and ninety-nine to go.
  
  Angel later has similar conversations during Season 2, for example with the paranoia demon in "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been", and with Holland Manners in "Reprise."

oh j'avais jamais vu ce sujet!! eh bien je viens d'apprendre quelque chose!!^^
c'est vrai que ça aurait pu être plus intéressant mais peut être un peu trop sombre pour le début de la série et surtout en 40mn.
Par contre j'aurais adoré voir cordy dans la rue^^
merci pour toutes ces infos. ça fait toujours ça en plus à se mettre sous la dent, c'est super!!