Big Brother refers to the George Orwell book titled 1984, in which government knows everything about you and what you happen to be up to. The concept made its leap to the television airwaves when a Dutch producer came up with the idea of putting a group of people into a house devoid of any outside social influences. The house, however, is not devoid of influences.
Cameras are everywhere and the Big Brother's producers are always at the ready to jump on their hp printer and inject a little controversy to make their ?rats? jump. The formula appears to work for television, as the concept is now used in many countries, with slightly differing twists according to those countries social norms.
Slanting slightly toward the American version it is interesting to see how the social outcomes of introduced tasks and contrived stimulus give us a winner (winners are determined by people casting votes; either from players in the house/jury or by call in or text votes from outside the house.) In the American Big Brother house the race is down to two people; a real jerk of a bar manager and his estranged daughter (not a saint), a situation that producers have got to love.
Hollywood always says that there has to be a happy ending to make a movie successful. Well, in this movie of a TV show there doesn't seem to be a happy ending in the mix. Daniele, the estranged daughter, does appear to be a nice enough person. The problem is, however, to get to this place in the game the weak deer are nowhere to be found She's a snaky B****. Having a decent person win the game is just counter intuitive to American culture. American society is based on natural selection in its voting practices, but to have a father destroy his daughter? Now that's good American television (sarcasm).
Since there is a review show coming up and then the finale maybe the producers have a chance to capitalize on this particular situation. Yup, that's right, let's fire up that old hp printer one last time and inject a competition that will get America really interested. This past week they had a water torture competition that lasted over seven hours. The question is, how can the producers top water torture for the finale? With big brother in charge it needs to be something big. It needs to be something bigger then water torture (sarcasm.) Now that would be good American television and Orwell would be proud.
The reality TV show ? Big Brother ? is actually based on the Dutch television show by the same name that hit the screens back in 1999. This show features a group of strangers. This group of strangers is called by the name HouseGuests. They have to live together in a house all 24 hours. This house is supposed to belong to the ?Big Brother.? During their stay, they are very isolated from the outer world but are always under the surveillance of some unseen pair of eyes. They do not have any privacy. Quite naturally, owing to such a unique concept, the Big Brother series became a big hit in the US ever since it hit the small screen and has been continuing its successful run over the years.
One of the biggest moments of the Big Brother show is undoubtedly the eviction of Dustin in Big Brother 9. As is natural with almost all reality shows of this kind, some people were not at all upset with the eviction of Dustin. There were however, many who were taken by surprise as Dustin was favored by so many viewers of the show.
Memorable Events
One of the most exciting events of the Big Brother series 2 was the brief spell of anxiety when Justin went to the extent of threatening his fellow mates at the house with intimidation and physical violence. It went on to be noted very seriously among the juries as well as the common viewers of the Big Brother show because of the fact that physical coercion, or even the slightest hint of that, happens to be among the most serious of the violations of the norms, i.e. the house rules.
Somewhat similar incident was repeated during the Big Brother 4 when Scott Weintraub, one of the houseguests, had a rather violent outburst. It was in relation to the season twist ? the X-factor. In his violent outburst, Scott toppled all the furniture in the house and even refused attending the diary room as summoned. Later, he went to the diary room only to learn that he had been expelled and had to be evicted.
Greatest Moments
One of Big Brother's greatest moments came when Michael Donnellan and Eric Littman engaged in a confrontation in relation to the comments that Michael passed regarding the family of Eric. It was some joke that Michael cracked to Janelle about Eric's grandfather. Rachel reported that to Eric and this followed the serious exchange of words. Big Brother 8 too, had its share of events that drew controversy all through America.