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- Carnivàle ist eine US-amerikanische Fernsehserie, die in den Vereinigten Staaten der 1930er Jahre spielt. Die Serie verfolgt die Handlungen des jungen Ben Hawkins, eines Arbeiters in einem Wanderjahrmarkt (engl.: Carnival), und dem kalifornischen Priester Brother Justin Crowe. Die übergreifende Geschichte ist um den ‚ewigen‘ Konflikt zwischen den Kräften des Guten und des Bösen aufgebaut, eingebettet in eine komplexe mythologische Struktur aus Metaphern, Symbolen und Allegorien. Diese mythologische Struktur erstreckt sich auf Bereiche und Themen wie die christliche Religion, den Templerorden und das Tarot, aber auch auf historische Ereignisse wie die Great Depression, den amerikanischen Dust Bowl und den ersten Kernwaffentest. Samson, der kleinwüchsige Carnivalmanager, leitet den mythologischen Rahmen der Serie in einem gesprochenen Prolog am Anfang der Pilotepisode ein: “Before the beginning, after the great war between heaven and hell, God created the Earth and gave dominion over it to the crafty ape he called man… and to each generation was born a Creature of Light and a Creature of Darkness… and great armies clashed by night in the ancient war between good and evil. There was magic then. Nobility. And unimaginable cruelty. And so it was until the day that a false sun exploded over Trinity, and man forever traded away wonder for reason.” „Vor dem Anfang, nach dem großen Krieg zwischen Himmel und Hölle, schuf Gott die Erde und wählte als Herrscher diesen cleveren Affen den er Mensch nannte. Und in jeder Generation lebte eine . Große Armeen prallten bei Nacht aufeinander im uralten Krieg zwischen Gut und Böse. Es gab Großmut und Magie und unglaubliche Grausamkeit. Ja, so war’s. Doch dann ist die falsche Sonne über aufgegangen, und der Mensch hat für immer sein Wissen von den Wundern getauscht gegen die Vernunft.“ – Intro der Pilotfolge im Original und der deutschen Synchronfassung (de)
- Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression. The series traces the disparate storylines of a young carnival worker named Ben Hawkins and Brother Justin Crowe, a preacher in California. The overarching story is built around a good and evil theme, which serves as a human-scaled metaphor within a complex structure of myth and allegory. Samson, the carnival's dwarf manager, sets up the show's mythology with a prologue in the pilot episode, talking of "a creature of light and a creature of darkness" being born "to each generation" preparing for a final battle. Most mythological elements in Carnivàle relate to so-called Avatars (or Creatures of Light and Darkness), fictional human-like beings with supernatural powers who embody good and evil. In its first season Carnivàle does not reveal its characters as Avatars beyond insinuation, and makes the nature of suggested Avatars a central question. By the second season it is established that Ben is a Creature of Light and Brother Justin a Creature of Darkness. Other than through the characters, the show's good-and-evil theme manifests in the series' contemporary religion, the Christian military order Knights Templar, tarot divination, and in historical events like the Dustbowl and humankind's first nuclear test. Show creator Daniel Knauf did not respond to questions about the mythology but did provide hints about the mythological structure to online fandom both during and after the two-season run of Carnivàle. Nevertheless, many of the intended clues remained unnoticed by viewers. Knauf left fans a production summary of Carnivàle's first season two years after cancellation. This so-called Pitch Document, originally written to give HBO and Knauf's co-writers an overview of the intended storyline, backed up and expanded upon the assumed mythological rules. (en)
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- thumb|center|120px|Dust storm in the Texas Dust Bowl, 1935. "Drought and pestilence fester in the very heart of this great land. Titanic sandstorms, the likes of which man has not seen since the day of the prophets. I ask myself, what are these things?" (en)
- thumb|center|160px|Raphael's St. Michael Vanquishing Satan in the opening titles of Carnivàle"Before the Beginning, after the great war between Heaven and Hell, God created the Earth and gave dominion over it to the crafty ape he called Man. And to each generation was born a Creature of Light and a Creature of Darkness... and great armies clashed by night in the ancient war between good and evil. There was magic then. Nobility. And unimaginable cruelty. And so it was until the day that a false sun exploded over Trinity, and man forever traded away wonder for reason." (en)
- "If Carnivàle asks a central question, it's this: What is the link between Hawkins and Crowe, and what do their dreams have to do with reality? Are these visions of the future, residue of the past, or an allegory for the present? [...] I found myself desperately wishing that [Michael J. Anderson would start speaking backwards again], partly because then at least something in Carnivàle would make a little sense." (en)
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- —Dennis Cass of Slate in reviewing the first two episodes (en)
- – Samson in "Milfay" (en)
- — Brother Justin Crowe in "Milfay" (en)
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- Carnivàle ist eine US-amerikanische Fernsehserie, die in den Vereinigten Staaten der 1930er Jahre spielt. Die Serie verfolgt die Handlungen des jungen Ben Hawkins, eines Arbeiters in einem Wanderjahrmarkt (engl.: Carnival), und dem kalifornischen Priester Brother Justin Crowe. Die übergreifende Geschichte ist um den ‚ewigen‘ Konflikt zwischen den Kräften des Guten und des Bösen aufgebaut, eingebettet in eine komplexe mythologische Struktur aus Metaphern, Symbolen und Allegorien. Diese mythologische Struktur erstreckt sich auf Bereiche und Themen wie die christliche Religion, den Templerorden und das Tarot, aber auch auf historische Ereignisse wie die Great Depression, den amerikanischen Dust Bowl und den ersten Kernwaffentest. (de)
- Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression. The series traces the disparate storylines of a young carnival worker named Ben Hawkins and Brother Justin Crowe, a preacher in California. The overarching story is built around a good and evil theme, which serves as a human-scaled metaphor within a complex structure of myth and allegory. Samson, the carnival's dwarf manager, sets up the show's mythology with a prologue in the pilot episode, talking of "a creature of light and a creature of darkness" being born "to each generation" preparing for a final battle. (en)
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- Mythologie von Carnivàle (de)
- Mythology of Carnivàle (en)
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