Curiosity facts about names!

The male protagonist is named Sutton Hoon, after a VI-VII century Anglo Saxon ship burial found in Sutton Hoo area in Suffolk, England.

The female protagonist is named Celia, in Italian celiare means to jest, Sutton frequently address his wife as “Celia, are you kidding?” in episode 3 the passport is shown and the complete name is readable as Celia Calanais. Calanais or Callanish is the name is of standing stone circle on the west coast of Lewis in the Hebrides  (Western Isles of Scotland).

Adam Dunvegan, Sutton’s best friend, is named after Dunvegan, Scotland. The name alliterates with Dave Vanian. Legend tells someone from the audience of a Bauhaus gig shouted to the singer Peter Murphy: “You are a fucking copy of Dave Vanian.”

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Let's talk about Art!

Celia is specialized in early human artefacts, as she believes them to be the “only possible true Art”, the most valuable way of expression: ancient language is lost under the dust of  time, but artefacts are preserved till today. Human beings have found a way to express their own vision of nature and, at the same time, a way to describe symbols and abstract ideas common to all humankind. The first artefacts have sprung from natural world and have build a bridge to a inner world made of fears, hopes and feelings concealed inside the human mind.

Art quotes when Celia receives the object to be duplicated and delivers it to the pander:

Episode 1 receiving the object Celia: “A great artist is always before his time or behind it, says George Moore. Optimistic nature, poor George.”

Episode 1 delivering the object Celia: “All art is but imitation of nature, writes Seneca.  I think art is all but imitation of nature. Poor fellow, Seneca.”

The object duplicated: a woolly mammoth figurine from the Swabian Jura dated 35,000 years ago.

Episode 2 receiving the object Celia: “An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs, says Edgar Varese. Can’t something be more true?”

Episode 2 delivering the object  Celia: “An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision said James Whistler. Are artist paid? Oh, that’s bizarre.”

Object: The Venus of Hohle Fels is dated to between 35,000 and 40,000 years ago.

Episode 4 receiving the object  Celia: “An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have, says Andy Warhol. Poor little creature, Drella. I don’t think you can not have art, only a fool can think to buy art.”
Episode 4 delivering the object  Celia: “Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better wrote André Gide. Funny man, André, such a funny way to say the truth to make you think it is a lie!”

Object: The bone Venus of Kostenky aged 35,000 – 40,000 BCE.

Episode 5 receiving the object Celia: “Art is a revolt against fate, wrote André Malraux. Poor André such a life in far away places.”

Episode 5 delivering the object Celia: “Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time wrote Jean Cocteau. Nice fellow he was, not quiet able to draw.”

Object: therianthropic Lion Man of Hohlensteing-Stadel, a mammoth ivory figurine dating 30,000 BCE.

Episode 6 receiving the object Celia: “Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued wrote Jean Rostand.”
Episode 6 delivering the object Celia: “Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product says Edward Steichen. Isn’t that true?”

Object: a bone Venus of Willendorf (25,000 BCE)  

Episode 7 receiving the object Celia: “Great art picks up where nature ends said Marc Chagall. Poor man, Marc. He had a passion for crimson, this explains all his troubles.”

Episode 7 delivering the object  Celia: “We have art in order not to die of the truth wrote Friedrich Nietzsche. He enjoyed speaking with horses, monstrous creatures, aren’t they, horses.” 

Object: a 75,000-year-old pieces of ochre engraved with abstract designs and beads made from Nassarius  shells.

Episode 8 receiving the object  Celia: “What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time says John Berger. What else could you need?”
Episode 8 delivering the object  Celia: “Things are beautiful if you love them wrote Jean Anouih, funny I can’t love things when they are beautiful, I become fed up after a day.”

Object : Quartzite figurine from Morocco known as the Venus of Tan-Tan, 300,000- 500,000 years ago.

Episode 9 receiving the object  Celia: “The perfection of art is to conceal art wrote Quintillian. I love the poor fellow, he could have been a plastic surgery advisor.”
Episode 9 delivering the object  Celia: “The history of art is the history of revivals said Samuel Butler.  Imagine how shocked he would be if he had lived in our time, when the art of revival is already history!”

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Sound track Episode 1

Sound track Episode 1.

All songs are covers by The Sarnìquls © 2012 The Sarniculs. All rights riserved.  

Scene 1 I Don’t Wanna Grow Up, The Ramones

Scene 2 Zero, The Smashing Pumpkins

Scene 3 Strange Love, Depeche Mode

Scene 4 Run, Run, Run, The Third Rail

Scene 5 Another Invented Disease, Manic Street Preachers

Scene 6 Psychotic Reaction, Count Five

Scene 7 Change, Tears for Fears

Scene 8 She Loves You, The Beatles

Scene 9 The Man Who Sold the World, David Bowie

Scene 10 Kentucky Rain, Elvis Presley

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Work ethic

Quote from Episode 4

Celia: “My pander told me he had problems with the last customer and the price we agreed."

"They want to possess art, to possess immortality in some way. Art can’t be sold or bought. I gave them the illusion to possess art and they pay for their greed. What’s wrong with it?”

Sutton: “Celia, my dear. What people want is to gain their dream with no effort."

"What we do is leave them with a bitter lesson and with the awareness of reality: it’s for their own good."

"You give them something that soon turns to nothing and leaves them with the awareness of mortality and decadence. Everything must turn to dust, shining dust blown away, eventually."

"It’s not different from what we do, my mates and I."

"They see the antagonist in us, they want to live the dream they can beat us. They want the chance to play with the legend and win, they want the illusion to take our place and become the legend."

"This is what we sell: entertainment."

"We always win because we are the best, we are not trained to be the best, it’s a natural gift what we are."

"We win for money and we win to feed the legend with glory: we have no choice, it’s our nature.”

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U.M.I.A. the place to stay

U.M.I.A. is the name of the ideal city where the characters are living, it stands for ubi mel ibi apes, latin for “where [there is] honey, there [are] bees”. 

It looks like the town gathers all copies of remarkable architecture buildings and commonly appreciated monuments from all over the world, the ideal city seems to be surrounded by well preserved natural breath-taking landscapes.

A second hypothesis suggests the mega polis where the characters live, is a world where urbanization has reached every corner of the earth, a gigantic total town that has swallowed up all the cities we know in our world.

The characters, Celia especially, travel through such a wide town on full speed over craft-like vehicles.

From the windows or verandas of the house we can see the skyline change as if the house is moving or somehow rotating. This kind of scenario changes happen, usually, when Sutton is by the window, or walks by, looking outside. We are supposed to think he is so urbanized that he projects his vision of fearful natural landscape outside his safe home.

Famous places recognizable as window landscape:

Episode 1- The Taj Mahal, Agra India.

Episode 2- The Grand Canyon, Colorado U.S.A.

Episode 3- Easter Island, South Pacific.

Episode 4- The Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt.
Episode 5- The North Platform of Chichen Itza, Temple of Kukulkan, Mexico.  

Episode 6- Niagara Falls, U.S.A., Canada.

Episode 7- Angkor Wat, Cambodia. 

Episode 8- The Great Wall of China.

Episode 9- Angel Falls, Venezuela.

Episode 10-Kiyomizudera in eastern Kyoto, Japan.

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Episode 1 Synopsis

Episode 1 DINNER INVITATION WITH BITTERNESS “IN FUNDO”

Scene 1 From metaphysics to pataphysique

Alice irrupts in the house and begs Celia to be invited to dinner in order to meet a wealthy husband, as always she is completely ignored. Celia asks Sutton to play cards later in the evening and dedicate some time to the guests and convivial dinner. Sutton protests he has to work.

Scene 2 Go and catch a falling star  

Miss Winters is planning dinner and is very nervous because the secret ingredient of the sauce is missing. Celia goes out to meet the pander and is secretly followed by Alice.

Scene 3 Teach me to hear mermaids singing

Poker players arrive at the usual time and are hidden by Sutton in the library room, when Sutton enters the room, the window shows the landscape dominated by The Taj Mahal in Agra, India.

Scene 4 Ride ten thousand days and nights

Alice has the suspect Celia has a secret affair with the pander she has met, and tries to ask trap questions to understand the truth.

Scene 5 Such a pilgrimage were sweet

Miss Winters rages the house in search for Walter the dog, who is used to snoop in the kitchen and stole food, Robin’s literary agent arrives earlier than expected and is introduced to the poker players and is forced to tour Sutton’s “wunderkammer” gallery.

Scene 6 Though at next door we might meet

More guests arrive, cocktails are served, Alice is praying to have one of Celia’s clothes for the evening and is denied so she introduces herself to the guests. Robin’s literary agent is intrigued by the after dinne poker game.

Scene 7 Death kills with too much cold

Miss Winters is cautiously preparing the mayonnaise sauce, which is ruined by the trembling of the ceiling when the object is duplicated: a woolly mammoth figurine from the Swabian Jura dated 35,000 years ago.

Scene 8 We die but once, and who loved last did die

Celia goes out to walk Robin’s dog wearing a magnificent evening dress and delivers the object, the pander gives her the code. Alice sneaks in Celia’s rooms with the purpose to find proof of Celia’s secret affair, but she is soon distracted by the literary agent she mistakes for a wealthy possible husband.

Scene 9 Or like the heat which fire in solid matter

Celia comes home and saves the literary agent from unwanted attention Alice is providing at dinner, in an effort to look smart and brilliant.

Scene 10 Leaves behind, two hours after.

The literary agent joins the poker players next room and the girls are left alone admiring the new Panther Brooch (House of Cartier) Celia is wearing.

Odd facts and curious details about Episode 1

The scenes titles from 2 to 10 are lines by John Donne (1573–1631)

from “Song: Go and Catch a Shining Star” and “The Paradox”.

Quotes from Episode 1 scene 1

Sutton: “I’m a professional poker player, my dear. I take work so seriously that, when it’s sunshine, I have sunstroke working indoors as if I were a golf player working on a dry sand hill under merciless sun at noon. I have sunstroke all the same. Dedication to work is everything when you are a professional poker player.”

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Character's parade

Sutton Hoon is a professional poker player in his forties. He is always mindful to behave properly and never loose his temper, Sutton uses language with care, choosing out fashioned, decent and polite words. He is good hearted, elegant in classic suits and with a declared passion for handcrafted watches, has a positive attitude but hides a mysterious secret. He is very proud of how he earns the day and how he preserves the family tradition of gambling through the generations, from grand father to father and to son. Often he declares, tired at dawn: “I’ve been playing all night long to avoid working every day”. The character is inspired by Billy Idol, the British  singer and performer.

Celia Calanais, wife of Sutton Hoon, is smart girl with brains. She has invented “the Machine” a tool to reproduce an object with the same characteristics of the original, in shape, material, and also “carbon dated” records. She reproduces works of art and delivers them to a nasty pander who apparently sells them to collectors ready to spend millions to have an original work of art. The Machine reproduces a perfect copy, but in 40 hours the object becomes shining dust, and the collector remains empty handed.

Celia is always busy changing her clothes or moving books and pictures from one room to another of her house. Celia has to take care of her younger sister money shortage as well as helping friends. The character is inspired by British singer Dido.

Miss Winters, the housemaid, is a middle age bullish woman. The character is inspired by Vivienne Westwood, the style creator. Everyone in the house is afraid to cross her path and is scared to do something wrong. Every time any accident happens in the house, the first comment is “Miss Winters will not like that at all.” Miss Winters has a distinguish suitor, Colonel Armadale.

Colonel Armadale, aged retired colonel in love with Miss Winters, they often went out dancing, the character is talked to, talked of, but never shows up.

Arthur Dunburton, Sutton’s personal secretary and attendant, character is inspired by Nick Cave, the Australian performer. He is a faithful, old style servant, always silent and cold blooded, he is able to handle every situation and help his master when he needs to make up prompt decisions.

Sutton: “We’ve meet ages ago, he was loosing bad, he had a destructive habit to play “all in”, at that time and was completely broken. I’ve imposed him to stop playing and he works with me since: he owes me his life. He is indispensable to my work, I need a silent attendant who spots life around me. When I play I have eyes only for cards: it could be extremely dangerous.”

Alice Calanais, Celia’s younger sister, character inspired by Liela Moss, singer in English pop group The Duke Spirit. She is a pretty girl who desperately needs to find a husband “outrageously rich, dramatically handsome and overwhelmingly funny”.

Alice: “I wish I’ll find a husband rich as yours. Not for the money, of course. Just to keep my standards of living, you understand.”

Alice: “All my friends are married, some are divorced already. I can’t find a rich enough man, Celia, this is the truth. I think I’ll end up my days on your sofa complaining like this.”

Alice is always after the glamorous outfits her sister Celia is wearing just once in a lifetime, but she does not know that they are duplicated with the “Machine” and are going to disappear after 4o hours. Celia does not tell her the secret despite the protests of Alice who proclaims her humble attitude.

Celia: “I’m the ‘wear once and get rid of it’ kind of girl, you know that well, but I’ll never allow my own sister to live on my own waste, Alice dear.”

Celia: “No, never in my life I’ll let you go around with a frock I’ve already wore once. You are a unique creature, dear, and you deserve unique clothes.”

And poor Alice remains each time wordless and unable to gain the dress she has seen her sister wears.

Mrs Hoon, Sutton’s mother, the character is inspired by Annie Lennox, the Scottish singer of duo The Eurythmics. She is very confident in her method and wants everything to work in harmony with her own rules. She has a hilarious quarrel, made of creatively funny cruel mutual insults, with Miss Winters, who does not allow any intervention in her territory and dislikes to be told how to manage the house.

Adam Dunvegan, Sutton best friend, called affectionately that ‘Damn Dunvegan. The character is inspired by Dave Gahan the British singer and performer in pop band Depeche Mode. Adam is a pattern design researcher, but no one does know what he is exactly doing for earn a living.

Robin, Celia’s best friend, is a nice girl, self-made business woman, has created a cosmetic empire from nothing. Suffers of insomnia and cooks at night while  she writes best seller crime novels under hidden identity. Robin has a pet, a skinny dog, a dark grey furred Deerhound named Walter. The poor thing is usually left to Celia’s care and soundly snores under the table where Sutton and his mates play poker.  Robin character is inspired by Shirley Manson, Scottish singer in pop group Garbage.

Alice: “Your friend Robin is a brilliant pretty girl.  Gorgeous hair she has, but that nose!"

"Why don’t she thinks about getting it fixed somehow?”

Celia: “She already has. “

"Alice: “Well I’m afraid it will need further attention."

"I’m sure it will not cost so much money and time, after all.”

Celia: “Alice, dear, you don’t get it. Robin has a proportionate figure, she’s smart and has a lovely face." "How could anyone have taken her seriously as a pretty girls as she was?"

"She had nose surgery to deconstruct her nice nose. A pretty girl needs a single visible faulty spot to divert the attention from her beauty. Now she’s perfectly happy, she manages a company of her own and writes books in her spare time. She has a young handsome husband and you can’t even tell if the nose is genuinely matched with her face or if it has had surgery: such a good job they have done.”

The middle man who intermediates between Celia and the collectors, is called the “pander”.  In season one the character has no name and is inspired by American performer Iggy Pop.

The pander usually meets Celia to give her the object to be reproduced in a silver case with scarlet fluffy interior. The object is return in the same case, and the reproduced object is in a black case with emerald fluffy interior.

The meetings usually take place at a Café or in a Bar, recognizable locations in episodes:

Episode 1 Tiles Edimburgh

Episode 2 American Bar Vienna

Episode 3 The Imperial Café Prague

Episode 4 Caffè San Marco Trieste

Episode 5 Bar at Metropole Hotel Bruxelles

Episode 6 Majestic Café Porto

Episode 7 Tortoni Café Benos Aires

Episode 8 Willow Tea Room in Glasgow

Episode 9 Café Falsataff Bruxelles

Episode 10 Restaurant Julien Paris

When the pander receives the original and the reproduction in separate cases, he gives Celia a money transfer code for the immediate payment on her account.

Celia: “I never carry any money with me, I’ve never get accustomed with such modern habits, I’ve a barbaric view of life. My husband deals with money all the time and it does not seem to do him any good. Let me have a look at my account; you understand, to verify amounts it’s all I can bear to do, when money is involved.”

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