Traffic lights – Or: Opposites Attract With Ran Sarig and Adir Miller
Posted by: Ayelet Mitch on Jun 23, 2010
Ran started the session by adding us to the Israeli TV documentary serie "Connected", the male version, with the camera he got. As it turns out, he is one of the characters this coming season. A suicidal kind of work, as Ran described.
Adir and Ran described their work process, which is mainly eight months of telling stories to each other and leaving out stuff that doesn't work. That's what they have in common. They are a classic case of opposites attract by nature, but they both love women. Adir has the advantage of trying his material on his audience at his stand-up shows. Every punch line could turn into an episode. The only rule is to write about things that could happen,and not what actually did happen, which means surprising turning points.
Basically, it's "sex and the city" for men, says Adir, but the audience you'd really like to have on your side is the women. They are the "life motivators" as he calls it, men are just dragging along. And the men in this serie portray three stages of men: the long time married man, the newly weds and the man who cannot commit. When they refer to Israely series, they say that their main problem is focusing on the darama and not the charecters. So they emphasize the differences between the men, but the American version of the show will be quite different, apparently.
Adir concludes by thanking god he is an artist and not a business man, because he can entertain people and do it with his heart, and that's a gift.
