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I like the interpretation but I eouldnt confuse it with authority intent. I dont think the creators read that deep into soviet history aside from reading a book about Stalin
There is much more to the depth of this show and the history they're tapping into than many realise. Play Unto Stone at 3:25 and listen to the pipes https://youtu.be/R7NEHsuXHww?list=PL_2m5sLOhDdu3PLkshR0tZ6rHCAOvn8qb&t=205
Then play Tema di Ali from Battle Of Algiers and wait for the pipes to kick in at 0:27 https://youtu.be/aAQpSkWt6SI
There is more knowledge and more that they're pulling from other parts of communist film history hidden within Andor if you really dig. Everything they have done is extremely deliberate and not accidental.
Or a film director knew about a film wirh revolutionary vibes and a score by one of the best to do it and ripped it off.
A bit cynical.
its star wars
Have you watched it yet?
i have. but like, its not that deep
Compared to what? Which contemporary serialised media is better? I can't name one. We can go big and say the early GoT serie (not the late ones) or Breaking Bad. Andor is significantly better than both. Why be so dismissive?
What high art are you comparing it to that's so much better that it deserves to be so incredibly dismissive? Because if you've got something better to suggest that released in the last 20 years then I'd like to add it to my list. Chernobyl gets to go up there I suppose but it still had some brainworms, Handmaid's Tale was alright, Westworld not in the running, House of Cards is really trashy and not down to earth by comparison imo. I don't know what I would say was better. Maybe Utopia? That was pretty rad. It shares some of the same production team members though lol.
I feel like you're being overly dismissive in a "it's star wars lol" kind of way instead of an honest comparison of the show to pretty much any other serialised content in the last 25 years. If we reel off names of series and ask which was better and has more depth to read into or analyse it comes out ahead quite a lot unless you're just wilfully trying to ignore that they're not really telling a Star Wars story, they're telling a communist story with a Star Wars skin as a way to get it past bean counters and execs.
i dont really care about high art or prime time tv shows. my point is not to compare it to other tv and say thats its better. my point is that its a tv show produced by disney and its not secretly super communist propaganda or something. businesses constantly use revolutionary aesthetics for profit.
Insert the Joyce Messier quote here
We are talking about the American film industry here
Andor was shot in Britain, had a British production team, and the cast are mostly from the British isles. The entire Ferrix arc has so many parallels to the Battle of Orgreave I actually couldn't get into it here without writing a wall of text.
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Gilroy says he's done a lot of reading on revolutions in general, just because he finds it interesting. He did an interview on the Jon Stewart podcast along with Mike Duncan of the Revolutions podcast where they talked a bit about the inspirations behind Andor and the revolutionary potential in the current US climate.
Very worth listening to btw. Especially the season on the Haitian revolution, which is ignored too much.
The longest and most in depth season though is the Russian one, which is season 10, and has over 100 episodes if I recall, or abut 50 hours...
Wasnt the French one longer?
French one (season 3) has 54 episodes according to the libsyn archives while Russia (season 10) has 103 episodes.
Yet he works for Disney
"I'm condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them."
Me using scissors
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A book written by a weirdo who is NOT a historian and has British brainworms at that