From:   NAME: Joe Rader

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    Last season there was one episode of "Northern Exposure" that struck me

    at the time as employing a quite Brechtian technique.  The episode was

    moving along in a suspenseful development of the plot which called for

    a duel.  The two combatants were standing back-to-back in a field,

    ready for the signal to commence when one of the characters yelled,

    "Wait a minute, I don't like the way this is turning out." Etc. Etc.  A

    great brouhaha ensued while all the usual characters discussed the

    matter, sometimes looking directly into the camera and gesticulating to

    it as if they were talking to the audience one-to-one-rather than

    through the construct of acting their "normal"  characters.

 

    Ultimately they cut to a commercial or something, as I recall, and

    whent he show resumed everything was back in the ur-fictitious story.

 

    It was only a brief moment.  But I remember thinking that I had never

    seen anything quite so boldly like Brecht.

 

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