A dream in turquoise.

Everything so beautifully colorful here! Colors were the real stars of the legendary eighties-year series "Miami Vice." All episodes are now in a box to have? a magnificent Firlefanz entirely in pastel.

 

Legend has smeared a boss of the U.S. television channel NBC thought the Blitz "MTV cops" on a notebook and then let its authors of the leash. The truth is more likely that a newspaper article about the work verdeckter Cops in the fight against the drug cartels in Miami the authors and producers Anthony Yerkovich, brought a TV series to be developed.

In any case, that "Miami Vice" in 1984 in the United States launched a worldwide success and has long been considered classics applies. It was colorful and loud, a combination of pink Art Deco buildings, donnernder pop music and a lot Geballer and explosions: a thriller than 48-minute MTV video clip.

Because it's also a quarter-century ago, there are now all Miami Vice episodes on 30 DVDs in a bulky box with anniversary loose 3D artwork and rare certificate. A costly gift for all those who were young then and now earn enough to get such a wonderful Firlefanz shelves to make.

Nevertheless, of course, the magic question of whether something to his time as the measure of all things in matters of style and nonchalance was age in dignity can.

The surprising finding is that Miami Vice, in this millennium, yet fun. Certainly, in this era of sophisticated, ambitious U.S. TV series like "The Sopranos," "24", "Six Feet Under," "The Wire" or "Dexter" seem to be the adventures of the smart duo Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) and Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) obviously complacent, slow and somehow betulich.

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Besser has, however, the appearance of the series. Indeed, apart from the noisy pop songs were the true colors stars in Miami Vice. Directed by Michael Mann-King, a detail fanatic, as Executive Producer of the threads pulled adopted strict rules for the appearance of the series: red earth tones and were banned, everything had to be somehow pastels! Pink and turquoise were the hits. Each episode had a color theme! The houses, the suits, the cars. Anyone going through the picture had to be super dressed so that it matched to the background. It was all strictly adhered to. Then there was the fashion: For three detective suits were three-day beards and Schlabber-Armani matters.

No wonder that many unnahbare musical heroes as Miles Davis, James Brown or Leonard Cohen guest appearances over. Even Cohen remembers it like: "My children were first impressed me when I appeared in Miami Vice!"

DVD Box
"Miami Vice - The Complete Series" (Universal).