Love Claire Danes. Fantastic actress. Homeland Season 4 was spectacular, can't wait for the new season!
mistasparxxx
Her level of acting in Homeland is divine.
delrey
Anyone else agree that her laugh is so adorable.
BizarrePower
her character is a big fan of jazz and of Miles Davis...if i can recall there was a part when she was having a bipolar attack and she gets her iPod to listen to jazz to calm herself down
rancismorris
01:15 What is the significance of Carrie Mathison always listening to jazz music in Homeland?
In the opening credits a young girl is seen playing a trumpet, assuming this is Carrie, and assuming she is playing jazz, she must be very intelligent. Jazz and the jazz musician supply an ideal metaphor for the rapid flow of esoteric thought, and acute mental activity seen in Claire Danes’ masterful portrayal of Carrie. In addition to the swamp full of doubtful, unimpressed or unresponsive listeners, together make for one enticing drama.
In the original concept of the show, the different types of jazz that Saul and Carrie enjoy were supposed to become a symbol of their different methods of intelligence work: Carrie loves the chaotic Thelonious Monk; while Saul prefers the smoother, calmer John Coltrane.
That's why there's the Louis Armstrong bit in the opening montage, and the two of them talk about it once or twice early in the first season.
As things changed during the actual writing of Season 1, that particular bit of character development got lost in the shuffle.
I believe Jazz expalins Carrie's behavrioul disorder/mental state ... She Loves Jazz which in really contemporary and most importantly as Jazz music flows ups and down so does Carrie's mental state... She even co-relate Jazz with the movements of Brody's finger when he is on camera which either writer's semingly introduced to create confusion for Audiances however it also shows that Jazz is also over her mind ... flowing yet saddistic ksksks
KRAKOA
She'll always be Angela, Juliet, and Beth to me.
jdlaw
OMG! He totally trolled Homeland and Carrie's craziness😂😂😂
sankernarayanan
that was the perfect bit but they forgot the red lines connecting the photos. Love it !
ClayBlasdel
00:16 What is the meaning of the title scene from the TV series Homeland?
1. It starts out, “I won't…I can't let that happen again” as if the world trade center disaster was her fault. Carrie takes everyone and everything very seriously, and the burden of the world is upon her.
The maze: a metaphor for Carrie's bipolar disease, and the fact that she must find a way out of it. It's a maze that imprisons her, now she is determined to find her way out of it. The question is: will she find her way out and find her true self again?
The tuba(was this season 2 opener?): Carrie has always taken huge challenges her whole life, learning to play the tuba is one of them. She always puts her effort into everything and has a history of taking on huge, seemingly insurmountable challenges. She likes a good challenge.
The trumpet and trumpet players: Carrie expressed her real feelings through the musical notes of the trumpet. The trumpet wailing is like crying and grieving. The highest note hit is when the planes hit the World Trade Center.
Carrie is driving over the George Washington bridge when catastrophe and tragedy strike the World Trade Towers. You can see smoke rising to the left out of the front of the windshield of her car. You can hear her later reflect on how “it happened right before my eyes“. This single event would haunt and shape her.
Carrie: I missed something once before. I won't, I can't let that happen again.
Saul: It was ten years ago. Everyone missed something that day.
Carrie: Everyone's not me.
Carrie wears a lion mask:
1. The acts of terrorism, domestic and abroad, awaken the sleeping lion within Carrie and motivates her to take action. Like getting out of a maze, she knows this will present a challenge for her. (I don't recall her wearing a horse mask).
2. She must conceal her true feelings and bipolar illness from everyone in order to put on a good face. Who or what does Carrie hide, and better yet, who is the real Carrie? She also appears more powerful than she truly us. The mask belies the vulnerability lying underneath her exterior self.
Carrie watches Reagen, Bush, and Clinton on TV: She hears Reagen, then Bush, then Obama speak out against terrorism. She hears about Flight 103 which crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland as a result of a terrorist bomb and Bush stating, “we will not stand against these acts of aggression”. She is exposed to all the acts of terrorism, at a young age, over the past 30 years and these events shape her outlook on life and motivate her to do something about it. We see images of her sleeping to show that she, like the rest of us, let our guards down and were not aware of the serious threat terrorism presented until 9–11. But these events awakened the “sleeping lion” within her and she knew from an early age that she wanted to fight the bad guys and stop terrorists.
The Homeland main title sequence — a montage of jump cuts, grainy footage and superimpositions — wonderfully pulls together the back story and motivation of main character Carrie Mathison in a seeming rush of a dream. It submerges us into Carrie's troubled childhood of watching terrorism on TV, and her now-adult role as a CIA counterterrorism agent. Grown up, she’s emerged as a bit of an intelligence-agent savant, but plagued with an inherited bipolar disorder.
But as loose as those fragments may seem, they're incredibly well devised. The title's main theme is the classical Greek myth of the Minotaur in the Labyrinth, showing Carrie’s target, Sergeant Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), an ex-Marine and possible terrorist, standing inside the maze. (In classical mythology, the Minotaur was a cursed offspring, with the body of a man and the head of a bull, who grew to be out of control as an adult. The beast was trapped and kept in a maze it could not find its way out of.)
While the use of the beast in the maze made sense to me in terms of the danger and invisibility of extremist terrorists, I could not finish the puzzle. Why is Carrie is shown as a child with an animal mask, inside the maze herself? It's a departure from the classic story.
As the child-Carrie puts on the Minotaur's mask and goes into the labyrinth in the title sequence, so did the adult Carrie do the same thing.She was willing to go anywhere, and do whatever necessary to get her target.
KRAKOA
Claire is stunningly naturally beautiful, and completely underrated! I love her. Amazing actress.
sophside
Pewdiepie is Colbert's next guest? NOW I'm jealous of Pewdiepie!
vikeightEsix
she wasn't really a depressed character in "Stardust"! I love that movie...:)
CantStayAway
watching so much homeland with her face constantly stressed out almost forgot how sizzling hot she actually is ughhh <3
ComradeStiv
Beautiful as always, looks genuinely happy!
johnclhugyugihjbvgbkj
Jazz music ties into her bipolar disorder on the show. I haven't started season 4 though.
macbookproearly
"This is Homeland crazy jazz" 😂
talia
Greatest Actor of all Time
Perfection
okukuliliann
Claire Danes was outstanding in Homeland 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤
TheRigo
Still the best on screen crier of all time
MotorCityPhoenix
This is great, although I don't so much think she admitted the opening means nothing, rather she has no goddamn clue what it means... I am fairly sure it all does mean something though... the frenetic jazz represents Carrie's character and the national security situation, for example... it's not meaningless, she just hasn't really thought about it.
