All My Children Co-Head Writer Likens New Storyline to the Oscar Winning-Film Crash (read 66 times) ... or go back
ABC's All My Children recently revealed a storyline involving Spike becoming deaf due to a car accident. Co-head writer James Harmon Brown likens this storyline to the Academy-Award-winning film Crash, as the events following the kidnap of Spike are interconnected upon conclusion of the storyline.
"If you saw the movie, you'll recall that all these incidents somehow at the end connect," Brown said in a conversation with Soap Opera Digest. He adds that by the time the storyline ends, viewers would notice that all the characters on All My Children have been somehow connected, as relationships are formed and some may be broken.
He said, "The story will involve Adam, JR, Tad, Krystal and everybody else."
Joining the writing team of All My Children in June, Brown knew that Greenlee would eventually take Spike, the son of Ryan (Cameron Mathison) and Kendall Slater (Alicia Minshew) because she believed that Spike was hers. He added that Spike's deafness was intended to create a major impact on both the characters and the viewers.
James Harmon Brown intended for it to be a "real repercussion," adding that "That was the genesis behind it, and it allows us to explore not only the dynamic between Kendall and Greenlee, but the relationships between Zach and Kendall, Ryan and Annie, Ryan and Greenlee, and all these people who are intimately involved with this little boy."
Brown also considered cochlear implants for Spike's deafness, as he and Esensten had previously came up with a similar story for Guiding Light. The two are also corresponding with Kassie DePaiva from One Life to Live, whose son was born deaf and underwent an operation.
They learned that the basic idea of parents with deaf children was that they didn't want their child to be different, thus there was a needed journey of healing from denial to acceptance and also guiding the child.
Finally, Brown explains to Soap Opera Digest that making the decision for the cochlear implant is hard to do, because "when you do the operation, apparently it either destroys or inhibits the chance for some future research to come up with a better [method of restoring hearing]." He adds that this is basically a story "about parents of a child who are trying to do what they think is best for [him]."
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ABC's All My Children recently revealed a storyline involving Spike becoming deaf due to a car accident. Co-head writer James Harmon Brown likens this storyline to the Academy-Award-winning film Crash, as the events following the kidnap of Spike are interconnected upon conclusion of the storyline.
"If you saw the movie, you'll recall that all these incidents somehow at the end connect," Brown said in a conversation with Soap Opera Digest. He adds that by the time the storyline ends, viewers would notice that all the characters on All My Children have been somehow connected, as relationships are formed and some may be broken.
He said, "The story will involve Adam, JR, Tad, Krystal and everybody else."
Joining the writing team of All My Children in June, Brown knew that Greenlee would eventually take Spike, the son of Ryan (Cameron Mathison) and Kendall Slater (Alicia Minshew) because she believed that Spike was hers. He added that Spike's deafness was intended to create a major impact on both the characters and the viewers.
James Harmon Brown intended for it to be a "real repercussion," adding that "That was the genesis behind it, and it allows us to explore not only the dynamic between Kendall and Greenlee, but the relationships between Zach and Kendall, Ryan and Annie, Ryan and Greenlee, and all these people who are intimately involved with this little boy."
Brown also considered cochlear implants for Spike's deafness, as he and Esensten had previously came up with a similar story for Guiding Light. The two are also corresponding with Kassie DePaiva from One Life to Live, whose son was born deaf and underwent an operation.
They learned that the basic idea of parents with deaf children was that they didn't want their child to be different, thus there was a needed journey of healing from denial to acceptance and also guiding the child.
Finally, Brown explains to Soap Opera Digest that making the decision for the cochlear implant is hard to do, because "when you do the operation, apparently it either destroys or inhibits the chance for some future research to come up with a better [method of restoring hearing]." He adds that this is basically a story "about parents of a child who are trying to do what they think is best for [him]."
For more resources about All My Children or for the full story about All My Children Co-Head Writer Likens New Storyline to the Oscar Winning-Film Crash please review this page http://www.buddytv.com
Article author: Fabiola Groshan
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