Looks like Kiefer Sutherland is starting to become exasperated with the non-stop questions about the show and torture. Actually, I don't blame him. He is right, it's a TV show. '24' is an entertainment program and the "torture" is used as a dramatic device to increase tension. There is an article on buddytv.com about this subject using excerpts from an interview Kiefer did recently with The Guardian Newspaper. I found it quite interesting.
I think he said it best in these quotes from the article:
“What Jack Bauer does is all in the context of a television show,” he started off. “I always have to remind people of this. We're making a television program. We're utilizing certain devices for drama. And it's good drama. And I love this drama! As an actor I have had an absolute blast doing it … But I know it's not real. The other actor certainly knows it's not real. And up until a year ago, everybody else knew it wasn't real."
“I'm just going to tell you outright, the problem is not 24,” he said. “To try and correlate from what's happening on a television show to what the military is doing in the real world, I think that's ridiculous … [If] that's actually happening, then the problem that you have in the US military is massive. If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show, we've got a really big problem. If you can't tell the difference between reality and what's happening on a made-up TV show, and you're correlating that back to how to do your job in the real world, that's a big, big problem.”
"I have never seen … an average citizen in the US or anywhere else who has watched an hour of 24 and after watching was struck by this uncontrollable urge to go out and torture someone. It's ludicrous.”
The complete article is linked here:
http://www.buddytv.com/articles/24/24-kiefer-sutherland-talks-tor-26107.aspx
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