The Son
I stopped in my tracks for few seconds, before I started to write this post. How exactly do I explain in words the significance of Sons Of Anarchy series? Hey, I get it. I’m a dark, moody, alternative kid who’s into leather, chains, bikes; the color black is my messiah. I don’t play well with others. Of course I, of all people, will eat up this show. The significance to me personally, that’s one thing; but the cultural significance and the impact the Sons had on the masses; how do you put that in words?
There are great TV Shows out there, and they will be great shows, but I’m struggling to see how any show can ever reach the cult of Breaking Bad & Sons of Anarchy. These two, well they were on just another level, no more, never. Again.
See, I’m convinced you need to be a little (or lots) MAD in life to be able to create a truly epic material, content, art; and the show’s creator/writer in the body of one Kurt Sutter, an original Son of all kinds of Anarchy, achieved a special kind of genius with this series. If you think this show is just about some biker gangs, you are sadly mistaken. You will learn more about love then in romantic movies made to simplify and confuse what human relations are actually all about!
To be able to choreograph such complex mayhem but to give it so much real, gritty emotion; to challenge you as a viewer by making all your lovable characters become so terrible, BUT to STILL have you root FOR them? To achieve emotion in every violent scene, unlike most Hollywood's signature just blow it up scenarios? To have all the emotional scenes embroidered and heightened with violence? Now that’s the true Sutter’s genius. Comparable only to the epicness that’s Breaking Bad.
The art of Kurt Sutter is real, like the man himself. Known in Hollywood for taking no prisoners with his attitude, known for going on brutal Twitter rampages every time the Sons got snubbed by the Emmy’s, known for his epic quote:
I’ve learned to make fuel from the heat of burning bridges.
...he’s a living proof you don’t need to kiss asses, be agreeable when it doesn’t make sense or take orders from people that know less then you; in order to make it. You need a talent so great that it overcomes your attitude, you need to create something so good people can’t resist to love, whether they like you or not!
And boy, did he create it. Some people cry when they see a sad movie, or listen to an emotional song; I cry when I see a beautiful creation, a great achievement. To create a show about the biker gang but to plot it out based on Hamlet, now I can’t begin nor end at the perfection of that idea. It all comes to the core of human condition, it’s all basics, like math, as to why we do the things we do, why do we react the way we do. This show provoked some existential questions in me, ones I still analyze on every day basis, and live by. One sentence in particular, that became my mantra, the one that helped me understand the basis of relations between men and women.
Men need to be loved. Women need to be wanted.
Think about that sentence for a minute. Let it marinate. And if you can understand the core of it, you will understand the why’s, the how’s, the omg’s why he didn’t text, the issues, the grief; you will understand and then learn the patterns of behavior. And if you’re willing to spend some time implementing it in your brain, actually be aware, maybe then you can achieve that emotional intelligence, piece of mind and self worth.
Watch it. Specially if you’re a girl. You don’t need to be into leather, chains & boots to like this show, just watch it. Listen to the words. Pay attention.
Why Brad Pitt’s picture on this post, you wonder? It takes me back to the episode when the main character, Jax Teller, walked into a porn studio. The owner takes one look at him, mistaken him for someone that came to maybe become a porn star. Makes one circle around him, and says:
I like it, like the look. Like Brad Pitt, but less gay.
That’s still not the reason, but that line, that line feed me life for weeks, when it happened. Death. Why? Here's why.
As you know, or not, I said it up there, Sons of Anarchy is based on Hamlet. A prince, a mother remarried, a stepfather, a dead father. A son, living with the overcast of dead father, his mysterious death, the legacy he left him with. Legacy the son bounces back and forth with. During the whole series, the legacy and the story of John Teller, the father, creeps in. The ending of the series, and how his son, Jax Teller ended up. The sneaker and the boot relation.
The masterfulness of the creator Kurt Sutter, the actors that told this story, the finale that would anger any viewer, had it been anyone else that wrote it the way Kurt pulled it.
I had a hard time excepting the end of this story. Even though the ending made me peaceful; there was a lot of sadness, partying ways with these characters. And then I hear a story last week how Kurt’s planning to do a prequel to the Sons, called First 9, based on 9 original members of Sons of Anarchy. With John Teller at the center of the plot. A story about John Teller, the ghost that lead the whole Sons story. Polls are already opened online as to who should play the First 9 characters. Understand, Sons have a cult following, specially in California.
And negotiation rumor mill is saying, Brad Pitt might play John Teller. Brad Pitt as John Teller. Brad Pit aaaassss Joooohn Teeeellleer? There’s few things that can happen on screen as epic as Brad Pitt playing John Teller. I can say it 26 times and I will still get a tingle saying it, every time, because that sentence right there and that possibility, that brilliance, that idea, already had me fueled until 2017. Whether it happens or not, just imagining it in my mind; the cut, the glasses, the boots, and those Sons rings; I already watched it. I LIVED IT.