Heavy-footed
I haven't time to reveiw this one at length as I am about to go offline for a few days as I'm moving into a new office, with a new broadband connection. So, very briefly:
The Apprentice: it's art
"I don't think he knew what he was talking about," said Tre, as the team walked away, bemused, from the Brixton flat of photographer Nigel Grimmer, who felt "squashed" by their attempt to woo him for his photos of family members with masks on. I liked his photographs. But Tre didn't. He didn't think that Nigel knew what he was talkinga about when in fact it was Tre who didn't know what he was talking about. The man who has nothing to learn. Tre and the fine art world do not mix. Having rejected Nigel (just as well - he said he wouldn't let them show his work anyway!), they went for the lady who took black and white photos of fish and crustaceans, one of which - some nipples being tweaked by a lobster - Tre actually censored. He refused to even show the nude photos in the gallery from which his team were to sell them. Now, we must respect Tre's religious beliefs, but that's got to be a point against him in business. As it happened, his team, under the leadership of Kristina, won by a mile, leaving Natalie's for the daubing. (They plumped for the photographer who was, let's say, a handful. Although I loved it when she quoted a price for "nine-fifty" and Adam genuinely thought she meant nine pounds fifty, rather than nine hundred and fifty pounds.) Natalie tried to deflect onto Adam, who sold art like he might sell cars - ie. successfully - and could probably get a good price for his forehead, but the fact that she's a mum with a business degree (right up there with Michelle's difficult childhood and Syed's East End upbringing) couldn't save her. I actually decided halfway through the programme that she was my favourite to win.
I'll leave the detailed dissection to you. Back soon.
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"we must respect Tre's religious beliefs"
I don't think he mentioned his religious beliefs, or suggested that his dislike of them was anything to do with that. He seemed to be he just felt uncomfortable with the pictures, in a kind of schoolboy manner.
Actually, despite that incident, which was just amusing, I actually thought we saw a different side of Tre. His waffle sales talk, re-interpreting the photos, was quite impressive just for its sheer nerve, and he did manage to at least sound vaguely intelligent. He also waffled in a slightly self-knowing way, suggesting that he's not as stupid as he's sometimes made to look. Certainly, he was a lot more watchable than when he's in his 'this is all bullshit' angry mode.
Whilst he's clearly not going to win, The Apprentice needs people like Tre in it to keep it interesting.
"Now, we must respect Tre's religious beliefs"
Why?
"Now, we must respect Tre's religious beliefs"
Why?
Frankie Roberto: In relation to the fishy photos, Tre did say that he didn't believe in Darwinism. And the vehemence with which he said it suggested that he most definitely believes in something else. This appeared to be the real root of his objections to the photos.
I think Adam was joking when he said nine pounds fifty. I think, though, that that actually reflects more badly on him than a genuine mistake would have done. I can't remember the exact quote but when he was on the phone he said something like, "So those are the features on that one." Yeah, lips, teeth and power steering as standard.
Did Natalie really think that she was forcing Sir Alan to fire Adam by bringing Lohit back? It's a selling task; I didn't sell anything; I'll bring back two people who did. A missed opportunity to see the back of Katie.
Art - another thing Tre can't do; but no, can't see him going soon. He did seem to have religious objections but it's hard to separate from his sheer bossiness - I'm sure he meant well when he said he wouldn't let his mum lie in the road but you'd have thought she could decide that for herself. I took notes this week so I know what Adam said on the phone Dave, 'Quite an exciting array of features on that one as well' (daft but the maybe the photos weren't so different from flash cars). The only other things I wrote down were, 'We've got warm fuzzies about you' (obviously Paul is what you meant by an army type, Andrew), and from Natalie's parents on You're Fired, 'Others were there (at swimming galas) just for the sake of the swimming but she liked the winning' (which sums up these people for me, personally I'm for the swimming). Nearly turned it off when they started looking for fat cats in the city, really didn't want to watch a real-life Harry Enfield sketch, but the candidates seemed more likeable by comparison. Katie's belief that she's the shrewdest there is quite amusing.
Before the series began I read that Srln didn't want a load of salespeople, and yet it could be called, 'The Salesperson'; perhaps it just makes for better telly, which is what it's about of course.
I like to think Natalie's final words in the cab home were her saying the swimming was more important than the winning.
As someone else has said elsewhere, the key was to make it clear that this was a one day only opportunity to buy - would've increased sales n'doubt.
Come on, you've got to hand it to Tre, he's amusing - 'Tit-Eating Fish' is a great name for a pub band.
I'm glad other people liked Nigel Grimmer's stuff, it seemed marvellous.
I can't believe they didn't come up with the title "fish & tits" to best sum up her work
Tom
Handing out flyers advertising "fish 'n' tits - one night only"* would've been an interesting move.
Swineshead, I liked the Nigel Grimmer stuff, but I'm struggling to convince others that I'm not being sarcastic.
* 'one nite only', probably.
Is Tre a Jew?
Is that why he censored pictures of crustaceans?
Sorry, am I missing something? What has being Jewish got to do with censoring crustaceans? (Forgive me if I'm being thick, but I don't know whether this is offensive or not.)
Interesting comment by Tristan/Anonymous: why must we respect Tre's religious beliefs? Because if indeed he was offended by nudity on religious grounds, what right have I to tell him his religious beliefs are wrong, just because I disagree with them? That's what I meant. If his religious beliefs stopped him eating ham, I wouldn't expect him to eat ham to win The Apprentice, but it might be a test of how much the job meant to him!
Sorry- that was a badly delivered crap joke. The posts suggest that Tre's behaviour can be traced back to his religious beliefs (is he against Darwinism? Is he against nudity? Is he just a mong?)
I was grappling for the right word at the time- Judaists? Friends of Abraham? Admittedly, 'A Jew' does sound a bit off. As does, 'The Jew' or 'Jews.'
Anyway the 'gag' refers to the Jewish's (thank you) strange insistence that fish must have fins and scales. Which leaves the Octopus buggered. But not by The Jew!
We Jews are right to insist that fish must have fins or scales before we eat them.
Remember, TheMiller, in times gone by, when Leviticus was abroad, we never came across oysters, prawns, crabs or the like, as we hadn't started to snorkel yet. The only non- finned fish we knew anything about was the Jellyfish, or the Starfish, or the cuttlefish that swept up on our beaches, and they were universally reviled on account of their inedibility.
By the time we thought up detachable flippers, the habit of not eating non scaly fish was so well ingrained that it had sunk to the status of taboo.
Apparently - there is a great boardroom scene this week. Admittedly the NOTW did give most of it away =- but I just cannot wait to see people squirm. Let's just say that I've got warm fuzzies about it!
Jellyfish were a great band. I really liked them.
H20 on the other hand... 'A E A E I O U...'
see what I mean ?
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