Showing posts with label prison break. Show all posts
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24 December 2008

Prison Break Character Guide



Prison Break, already in season 4, has gone through many characters in their story line. To keep all these characters straight, here is a Prison Break main character Guide.


Michael Scofield is the star of this television drama who worked as a structural engineer before his brother received the death sentence and went on a mission to give his brother freedom since he was wrongfully accused of murder.


Lincoln Burrows is Michael Scofields brother and was wrongfully accused of killing the Vice President of the United States, Terence Steadman. We find out later Terence Steadman is indeed alive and there's a company of people hiding the truth from America.


Fernando Sucre was Michael Scofields cell mate in the first prison, Fox River State Penitentiary in Illinois. His focus for escaping prison is reuniting with his girlfriend who seems to need "Sucre."


Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell was also an inmate at Fox River State Penitentiary and escaped the prison with Michael Scofield. He turns out to be violent and manipulative, and a thorn in the side to all those who know him.


Sara Tancredi was the doctor at Fox River State Penitentiary and the daughter of the Governor of the state of Illinois. She and Michael Scofield become close while at Fox River and Sara Tancredi eventually becomes Michael Scofield's love interest as they try to gain freedom.


Alexander Mahone was the FBI agent who was assigned to locate all the fugitives from the escape at Fox River State Penitentiary. As Mahone is trying to capture Michael Scofield, we learn he is the only one Michael Scofield runs into that is his intellectual match.


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Prison Break's Wentworth Miller - I'm Not Gay


In an attempt to put a stop to the lingering gossip and to clarify his name once and for all, Wenthworth Miller, star of the show Prison Break, speaks up the truth about his sexuality, stating that he is not a homosexual.


Moreover, he clarifies the fact that he is not even bothered with the rumors and the people who try to put him down.


In addition, he perceives this tittle-tattle as positive publicity to his thriving career, and more importantly to the show, Prison Break, that marked his stance on the entertainment industry. He stresses that he is very much aware of the rumors about him but does not really care about other people’s perception of him.


Prison Break, an action-drama series, is about the bond of two brothers and their attempt to escape the penitentiary. The television show, although also filled with other talented cast members, has ultimately launched Miller’s career. The said television series showcased Miller’s versatility and acting expertise in the field of drama, action and suspense, giving emphasis on his artistic and persuasive portrayal of a brilliant engineer desperate to save his brother, as well as his cool and calm approach to heart pounding situations.


The question that remains, with his explanation, are the spectators convinced about his gay denial? With Miller's firm attestation about not being gay, people also explore the idea if his fate will be just like those other actors on the rise who have also been faced with the same intrigue where in they denied the issue on many occasions and yet were eventually proven guilty of being gay.


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17 December 2008

Prison Break - A Fan's Thoughts



Prison Break the US TV Series, created by Paul Scheuring and premiered August 2005. The series was originally turned down by the Fox network in 2003. They didn't know how long a series on a jailbreak could go on for.


After the success of Lost and 24, Fox broadcasting decided to back the production in 2004. The original first season had a planned 13 episodes, but due to the popularity of the show an extra 9 episodes were added.


The main characters of Prison Break are of course the brothers Michael Scofield (played by Wentworth Miller and Lincoln Burrows (played by Dominic Purcell).


The plot of the first season is: engineer Michael Scofield contrives to get himself sent to prison he helped design, in order to help his brother Lincoln Burrows escape. Lincoln is death-row inmate who insists he did not commit the crime for which he has been sentenced to die. Burrows is on death row for the murder of the vice president's brother. He insists he's innocent and only his brother Michael Scofield believes in him. As an engineer, Michael takes drastic measures to help his brother. He gets himself arrested and sent to the same prison so that with his knowledge of the building the two of them can escape together. However, while inside, Michael discovers a massive conspiracy that is determined to see Lincoln's sentence carried out. Breaking out will be more difficult than he thought, but he's still going to try!


The season covers six weeks that Michael has been in prison to break out his brother. The first three seasons of Prison Break were primarily filmed outside of Hollywood. The majority of the first season of the series was filmed on location in and around Chicago.


Joliet Prison became the set of Prison Break in 2005, standing in as Fox River State Penitentiary on screen. Scenes set in Lincoln's cell, the infirmary and the prison yard were all shot on location at the prison. Lincoln's cell is the same one in which John Wayne Gacy was incarcerated.


Most of the production crew refused to enter the cell, thinking that it was haunted. Other sets were built at the prison, including the cell blocks that housed the general prison population; these blocks had three tiers of cells (as opposed to the real cell block's two) and had cells much larger than real cells to allow more space for the actors and cameras. Exterior scenes were filmed in areas around Chicago, Woodstock, and Joliet in Illinois.


Other locations included O'Hare International Airport in Chicago and Toronto, Ontario in Canada. While the first season managed to pull in 10.5 million viewers, the second season obtained an average 9.4 million. And the other seasons also failed to grab the attention of viewers.


The story line in many viewers' eyes have slowly been going downhill. How can Michael have his half body tattoos removed in one night? How does T Bag manage to survive almost anything and still be able to hunt for the brothers?


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