Talk:The Greeks (The Wire)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:42, 12 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Fair use rationale fixed.--Opark 77 (talk) 10:53, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

I've heard that HBO was threatened by a team of Greek lawyers of being sued for defamation over the shows portrayal of Greeks-in-America (much like Oliver Stone toned down Alexander the Greats supposed homosexuality in the film ALEXANDER after being threatened by a group of Greek lawyers). The line "Besides, I'm not even Greek" was the compromise. They are of Greek origin and "The Greek" was being facetious (deliberately to make the characters ethnicity ambiguous). Consider that Greek-American George Pelecanos (famous crime-novel writer) was a writer on The Wire's second season (the most prominent season for the Greeks story). Also, the Turk they killed was speaking Greek, not Turkish. It further does not make sense that the Greeks would act Greek when alone (calling people "malakas" etc.). Why did they ship those stolen cars to Greece? Why when they ran did they have Greek passports? (it only makes sense that if being "Greek" was their cover that they would not leave the U.S. under a Greek passport with the FBI/cops hot on their tail!). I'm sure many others could find contradictions in thinking their being Greek was a cover, anyway.--Nikoz78 (talk) 12:37, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

'It's all Greek to me,' says Wire writer

George Pelecanos, the veteran crime writer who is celebrated for his Emmy nominated collaboration with David Simon in writing and producing the brilliant HBO crime series, 'The Wire', says he reckoned the reason why the second series is entirely focused around a dockland criminal ring of Greek origin in Baltimore is because the show's creator, Simon, used it as a way of enticing Pelcanos – himself of Greek original – to work on the show. He told me: "He called me up and he said 'I need you, lots of the characters speak Greek. But in the last episode, (the main criminal kingpin called) 'the Greek' admits he's not even Greek. David wrote the last episode and it came as a surprise to me. I wouldn't say he lied to me at the start but he's a good salesman." The writer, is currently visiting England to speak about his latest of 15 books, called 'The Way Home', about a wayward teenager, at the Harrogate Crime Festival. --Nikoz78 (talk) 14:53, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Fictional TV series???
I don't think it's a fictional TV series. It's a real TV series that tells a fictional story. 178.48.52.73 (talk) 00:15, 30 March 2016 (UTC)