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Doctor Gregory House is not a pleasant person. What’s especially annoying about him is that he doesn’t really exist. Because the hero of the television series “Doctor House”, to which the most difficult patients get, can heal everyone.
Thousands of people use the paramedical term “get hooked” to denote their attachment to House. They unite in passionate fan clubs. For the sake of it master the art of downloading movies from the Internet. Do not sleep at night waiting for the next series. They scold the translation in which the series appeared on Domashny and put forward alternative options. They flooded the Internet with thoughts on House’s account, conjecturing the details of the hero’s biography and his relationship with colleagues, discussing his diagnoses, indignant and admiring, guessing his future and past.
Where does such love and even dependence come from? “House” seems to have done a computer tomography so beloved by its heroes on the self-consciousness and self-esteem of modern homo sapiens and saw a lot of pain points: unlimited trust in science does not go well with a clear understanding of the inevitability of death, the huge possibilities of technology lead to the perception of medicine as a new magic, the desire to succeed and “having” sometimes gets in the way of just “being”… But the main thing that attracts us to House is House himself: an unaccounted for “enfant terrible”, truthful to the point of cruelty, but at the same time knowing people well, ready to everything for the sake of truth and able to understand and express what others cannot.
The unkind, unhappy, intelligent, opinionated, and lonely Dr. Gregory House of Princeton-Plainsboro, New Jersey, has become the new hero of our time. A romantic hero in the classical literary sense of the word – a loner who challenges Rock, Society, God.
His dates
- July 3, 1959: Series creator David Shore is born in London, Canada.
- 11 June 1959: Hugh Laurie was born in Oxford, UK.
- 1993: Laurie begins acting on the television series Jeeves & Wooster as Bertie Wooster.
- 1995: Shore, a successful lawyer, makes his TV debut as a screenwriter.
- November 16, 2004: The first episode of House is shown on Fox (followed by the remaining 85).
- 2006: Shore Emmy Award for Outstanding Playwright and Laurie’s Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Television Series (House has 23 awards and 48 nominations in total).
- August 27, 2007: House Doctor starts airing on the Russian TV channel Domashny.
- 2008: Fox announces a fifth season in September.
Keys to Understanding
Everybody lies
A woman who has been trying to get pregnant for many years takes contraceptives and does not want any child. A fat man who never smoked and whom everyone is trying to treat for obesity dies of lung cancer. A devoted wife, in love with her husband from school and sobbing at his bedside, poured poison on her beloved for months … Dr. House, a misanthrope who suffered a collapse in his personal life, and a heart attack in his thigh muscle, lives in the real world, where everything is not as it seems . And therefore his favorite phrase: “Everyone lies.” Colleagues and relatives lie, circumstances and symptoms lie. But especially his patients, who (like many of us) are subject to stereotypes and deep fears, are clamped, insincere. This is the main obstacle to the correct diagnosis, but also a source of pleasure for a brilliant diagnostician who loves complex cases as much as Sherlock Holmes.
Rejection of the generally accepted
“You can live with dignity, but you cannot die with it. Death is always ugly,” House is convinced. The body for Dr. House is a crime scene. The offender – a virus, a bacterium, a disease – must be found so that justice can be done, and the sick person can be cured. In a world turned on success and insisting on physical perfection, a body that is sick, giving up and giving up is a traitor. And House does not consider the body to be equal to the personality, and this frees us from it. He does not tolerate hardened truths and does not break the rules, he simply ignores them. He does not accept the very idea of the generally accepted. For example, he categorically refuses to personally meet with patients or meets only to say very cruel things to their eyes. When asked if he wants to eliminate humanity from his work, House readily replies: “Yes!” He does not intend to be a doctor-god, the ruler of lives, and hates the doctor’s sense of superiority.
Thirst to know
But why is this doctor, not the greatest humanist in the ordinary sense, struggling for days on a new patient? He needs to know. Typical House dialogue: “If she gets better, then we are right. – And if not? “Let’s find out something else.” He chooses loneliness and the strength of a loner – a passion for understanding, the ability to establish the truth where everyone has given up or turned away. House is consistent: knowledge is more important to him than what we call kindness or humanity. Knowledge is absolute, goodness is subjective. And for the patient, knowledge is also saving, so that the cracker, tyrant, drug addict and cynic House regularly turns out to be “that arrogant bastard who saved your life.”