The TV series "Dawson's Cove". Actors - idols of the 90s

The 1990s became a new stage in the development of so-called "soap operas" - television series that ceased to be an extremely naive and cheap spectacle: their separate episodes were united by the main title idea, the orientation became more narrow-minded for a certain viewer audience, youth " ". One of the most successful, not deprived of the seeds of common sense and artistic value, was the telefilm "Dawson's Cove" (actors: James Van Der Beek, Michelle Williams, Cathy Holmes, Mary Beth Paley, Joshua Jackson, Kerr Smith).

"Summer ..." and its influence

In the Russian Federation, the show was produced by the First Channel in 1998, and domestic TV-men assigned the "Dawson's Bay" a more lyrical and intriguing title - "The Summer of Our Hopes". After the dominance of Russian TV screens by French youth sitcoms like "Nico and his friends" and "Helen and the guys," the picture that illuminates all the details of the life of American teenagers has become a breath of fresh air.

The audience immediately became interested in the characters - realistic teenagers, and their worries, worries, problems at the peak of puberty. To all the actors of the series "Dawson's Cove" were very attractive externally. For the domestic viewer, not yet spoiled by products like "American Pie" with his rather frivolous feeding of problems of sexual growing up, this project became a real revelation. Therefore, "Bay ..." can claim the primacy among the US youth series, which had a serious impact on the fragile minds of its target audience.

The plot and characterization of the characters

The series "Dawson's Cove" (the actors who took part in the shooting, confirm this fact) is not deprived of the traditional genre stamps in the characteristics of the main characters. There are among the characters the leader, the quiet, botan and the beautiful - the queen of the ball. The protagonists of the series are typical teenagers: the dreamy movie man Dawson (actor James Van Der Beek), lagging behind in terms of academic achievement, a good friend of Pacey (Joshua Jackson), Dawson's girlfriend is romantic and in love without reciprocity, Joey (actress Katie Holmes).

At this stage in the movie "Dawson's Cove," whose actors are the same age as their characters, there is no love triangle, since the main character is extremely infantile.

Not everything is gold that sparkles

But very soon the situation is heated, as in a small provincial town, as if in exile, there is a spoiled city beauty Jen (actress Michelle Williams). Her parents are fed up with her dissolute life in the wilds of the megalopolis, and they send her to the remote area in the hope that her daughter will come to her senses. Jen for local teenagers is a standard of freedom, a role model, a litmus test for their hidden dreams and desires.

And as it is not difficult now to guess the main intrigue of the movie "Dawson's Cove" (actors and roles selected by the creators more than harmoniously) will be the throwing of the main character between the two pretenders to his heart. Dawson is literally torn between Joey, who was always there, so she's used to it, and Jen, who grew up quite early, tried the taste of adult comfort, and therefore beckons like a forbidden fruit.

Actors: their roles and future destiny

Strangely enough, but after participating in the series "Dawson's Cove" actors, photos of which once adorned all the editorials of the media, did not become real stars of world cinema. The most successful career was created by Michelle Williams, who relatively regularly appears in the films of Hollywood ("Oz", etc.). Katie Holmes, except for pleasant exceptions in the form of participation in the projects of Nolan "The Dark Knight" and Schumacher's "Phone booth", did not achieve much achievements in the field of cinema. Her marriage to Tom Cruise does not count. Van Der Beek and Jackson played a few more roles in passing youth melodramas and comedies, but their careers did not go far up. Although to regard their role in these films as a ceiling of possibilities is silly. And only in the "Dawson's Cove" this four was bathed in the rays of glory.

The project also made famous the talented screenwriter Kevin Williams, who later, in the late 90's, wrote scripts for a series of cult horror films - "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "Scream". See the picture of "Dawson's Cove", the actors of which were idols of the youth of the 90s, at least to see how it affected the subsequent youth projects of the early 2000s.

About the First

The merit of Channel One is not only that his management is perfectly aware of fashion and new trends in the series (after all, he was the first to broadcast cult soap operas beginning with Octopus, Twin Peaks and ending with "X-Files" and "Millennium" ), But in that he gave "Cove ..." such a peculiar adapted translation. The name "Summer of our hopes" reflects the original idea of the authors as well as possible.

The TV film itself, most of all its first season, is permeated and saturated with a light sadness - a feeling quite pleasant, but still somewhat alarming. It is comparable to the teenager's fear of growing up - waiting for changes in life and the surrounding reality, the loss of childhood and careless adolescence is sad and frightening at the same time. In this project, the entire spectrum of such emotions is transmitted very accurately. Summer ends, and comes a gloomy, sometimes rainy autumn.