At the same time, it most likely marks the fact that the series can now compete on an equal footing with the cinema. His popularity series star Tim Roth, who played in "The Theory of Lies", honestly earned. And if you want to watch a couple more movies with "that guy from the TV," do not deny yourself this pleasure.
The average person lies three times in ten minutes of conversation.
"Lie theory"
I'll start with the end, that is, with the "Theory of Lies" (in the original the series is called Lie to Me - "Deceive me"). In the last year, Tim Roth speaks of him only: the actor suddenly became interested in everyone, and the main question that is asked to him is, of course, whether he is like his character. Journalists were definitely afraid to ask Tim about it when he played all sorts of outcasts and scoundrels.
"The theory of lies" was a rare series, which are watched even by those who do not rank themselves as serial-dependent. It seems to be a standard detective, even with unusual methods of investigation, but rather tightens like a tornado's funnel, and its center is the hypnotic look of the protagonist, Dr. Kel Lightman. The latter, interestingly, has a real prototype - Professor of Psychology at the University of California Paul Ekman.
His book The Psychology of Lying was translated into Russian. Dr. Ekman devoted thirty years to the study of how our body produces real emotions, often contrary to words. He introduced the term "microexpressions" - mimic movements, through which you can read what we really feel. Noticing these tiny, insignificant gestures and facial expressions, one can read a man as an open book, which is what the heroes of The Theory of Lies are doing - a team of psychologists in the service of justice under the leadership of Dr. Laitman.
The success of Tim Roth's TV series and The Lie Theory can be explained by a whole bunch of reasons. Firstly, she came out on the wave of world popularity of "House" and, in fact, develops the credo of the protagonist of the latter - "Everybody lies." Secondly, the methods of the characters of the series are quite suitable for application in real life: Fan sites are full of encyclopedias of signs of certain emotions and popular books, and experts bow to the creators of the series in their feet for such a high-quality popularization of psychology.
Thirdly, The Theory of Lies suddenly poked millions of people with a nose into a problem that can not be solved or circumvented: normal communication is impossible without deceit forever, small and big lies make personal relations and business partnership more convenient, not to mention about the political sphere. And art - what is it, like more than one grand deception? And what would the world be like if we started talking to each other what we think? Kel Lightman's drama is in his loneliness, to which he is doomed, being omniscient. It's hard to believe a person, seeing that he is lying, even if you really want to believe.
The star of the series Tim Roth plays Laitman, the shrewd, sarcastic, eccentric sociopath - no worse than Gregory House - but at the same time incredibly tired, disappointed and sad. He is not afraid to give out his real age in the frame - he sometimes looks at all the vigorously lived forty-eight. Meanwhile, the star of the series Tim Roth did not consider this role of his. When he was offered it, he refused - from a prejudice that puts work on television below the big screen. "The teleshow is for the losers" - this stereotype, due to dozens of quality TV series, is gradually disappearing into the past, but Roth is an actor of the old hardening, they are no longer doing that now. He does not even watch the TV - he does not see the point. The director of the series Samuel Baum persuaded the star of the TV series Tim Roth to meet with him at lunch and dumped a heap of papers on him: the outline of the series, the concept of "The Theory of Lies", Paul Eckman's books ... In a word, he hooked on the most sensitive actor's string - the dream of learning to do still something new.
The actor does not seek to apply his hero's technique in reality: he met the Lightman prototype and was horrified by how incapable of stopping to "scan" even the closest ones for their true emotions. How will the actor's war with the character end? Time will tell, but while The Theory of Lies is fine: the show was successful, it was extended for the second season, the third looms on the horizon, Rota has a lot of work ahead of him, along with a young and zealous acting team One frame with him is afraid to breathe. In Hollywood, Tim Roth is an outlandish beast: there is no such an irreproachable career combined with a pronounced marginality and anti-glamor, except for Sean Penn and Gary Oldman. It's no wonder that the two became his closest friends.
Intelligent punk
We are actors ... we abandoned ourselves, as our profession requires, - balancing this matter with the thought that someone is looking at us. It turned out - no one. "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead"
The habit of being professionally not the star of serials Tim Roth inherited from his father. No, he was not an actor, but a modest international journalist. His name was Ernie, and his surname was the most that neither is English - Smith (the real name of the star of Tim Roth's TV series is Timothy Simon Smith.) Ernie was also a fiery Marxist, a member of the British Communist Party. During the war, he served in aviation as a machine gunner, and in peacetime went to journalism and took the Jewish name of Roth for two reasons: first, in solidarity with the victims of the Holocaust, and secondly, in order to travel without hindrance to the countries of the socialist camp - so he was not mistaken for an English spy.
Although Ernie Roth left Anne, Tim's mother, and his sister Jill, when the boy was still in elementary school, the actor inherited something from his father - mostly leftist radical views and dislike for the British government. In 1991, he left London for good and moved to Los Angeles: "I left Britain, unable to withstand the eleven years of Thatcherism. Well, also because I do not like dampness. " For the sake of completeness, I add that Tim listens to punk rock, keeps journalists, is friends with Quentin Tarantino and stuffs a tattoo on his right hand as a sign of every significant event in his life. Now he has five tattoos, but they are labeled for the milestones of fate - no one knows: Mouth carefully discovers this intimate information and shows reluctance. And in the Hollywood party is not very much like: "Of all the festivals, I prefer Sundance (International Festival of Independent Cinema, which is held in the US). There you can see the movie, not all this glamorous rubbish, and the atmosphere is informal. Interviews can be given in the tavern. And you can not give it at all. " In short, the classic "bad guy" of proletarian origin - from the horde of English football fans Tim Roth is distinguished only by his erudition, he even named his youngest sons in honor of his favorite writers, Hunter Thompson ("Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas") and Cormac McCarthy ( "Old people here do not belong").
Education in the star of the serials of Tim Roth from his mother: Anne was a schoolteacher, re-qualified as a landscape painter. The family lived in the area of average respectability - Dalviche, in south-east London, the environment was very diverse both socially and nationally, but it was difficult to name him. However, my mother tried to instill in children love for art - Tim and Jill grew up on books, movies and masterpieces of painting, although money in the family, especially after the parents' divorce, was not to say that much.
Now it's hard to imagine, but the star of serials Tim Roth grew dreamily quieter and wanted in the future to become a missionary priest: Anne's mother was a deeply religious Catholic. He did not have enough points to enter the prestigious Dulwich College High School, and he was sent to the Tuls Hill School, the product of an ambitious educational experiment, worth a few words to say. This eight-story building was supposed to provide its students - boys and girls from poor families - all the opportunities for applying creative efforts: there were workshops, a school orchestra and a giant gymnasium, and a young teacher's team burning with pedagogical zeal. A paradise for a talented student? No matter how it is.
By the time Tim entered Tuls Hill, the institution had lost most of the funding, many teachers had fled to find a better life, and the multinational idyll that the founders had dreamed of turned into a nightmare. Two thousand students from different, but not the most refined layers of society, represented a hard-to-control crowd, with which the teachers could not co-operate. The fights of the students of Tuls Hill with the surrounding schools fell on the front pages of London newspapers. So a soft intelligent boy with a Jewish surname and not the most winning appearance, not to mention his physical form, has become a favorite target for bullying of classmates and older students (sometimes very serious, even sexual harassment). Then the star of serials Tim Roth and has acquired a ruffle of character, which now so willingly demonstrates - as if he still can not calm his inner teenager, who responds aggression to the cruelty of the outside world. His rare ability to imitate almost any accent Roth is also indebted to school years: this is how he mimicked his abusers.
Concerts of only the emerging punk bands Sex Pistols and Ramones, participation in anti-government demonstrations, spending the night in police stations - the youth of Tim Roth was more than a combat. The middle and end of the seventies were not easily given to England: the economic crisis, unemployment, the growth of crime. In this turbulent time, Tim with a half ends in school and goes ... to the Camberwell Art School, to study as a sculptor. Family education took precedence over anarchist inclinations. And his passion for the theater began with him at school: for fun he agreed to participate in the musical on Dracula by Bram Stoker, and what was the general surprise when he got the lead! The first appearance on the stage was remembered by Tim for the rest of his life: "I remember very well that when the curtain opened, I saw in the first row the most terrible bullies of the school. Overcame his fear and began to play, which gave me great pleasure. And I did not want this feeling to go away. " The scene became a drug for him: in order to receive all his new "doses", after school, Roth began to play in the amateur theater, and earned his living by placing goods on the shelves in the supermarket and working as an advertising agent. And all this - not stopping studies: the sculpture still remains one of the main hobbies of the actor.
On the machine, this does not work, so that clients Tim cycled. Once, on the way, a wheel came down from him, and he turned behind the pump to his fellow theater colleagues. And take them and invite him to go to the tests for a new TV movie "Made in Britain". The star of the series Tim Roth thought that, at best, he would appear in the episode, but the director, seeing the picturesque young man - Tim then flaunted shaved head, - suggested that he play the leading role of the young London skinhead. He got a character uneasy: an evil racist and a sociopath at heart is vulnerable, intelligent and very lonely. "The tragedy of English youth is that no one cares for it, and it is forced to look for the application of its forces in crimes against society," the director says. Roth played almost himself, he took aggression and pain of his hero from the depths of his heart. Once in the street it was even attacked by real skinheads. Tim was ready for an unequal fight, but they raked him in an armful and demanded an autograph.
The beginning of the eighties was for Roth a time of significant events. In addition to his first appearance on the screen and alluring career prospects, he got good friends (with Gary Oldman, who made up a luxurious duet with him in the film "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead," Tim met one of the actress's drinks), Laurie Baker's constant friend and child-son Jack Ernest, who was born in 1983. There was nowhere to retreat, further - only forward and upward.