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[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 0 points 2 weeks ago
[-] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

i have. but like, its not that deep

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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 compared.. 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.

[-] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

We are talking about the American film industry here

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Andor was shot in Britain and had a British production team.

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[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

Mike Duncan of the Revolutions podcast

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...

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

French one (season 3) has 54 episodes according to the libsyn archives while Russia (season 10) has 103 episodes.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

"I'm condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them."

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Me using scissors

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

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[-] newacctidk@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

A book written by a weirdo who is NOT a historian and has British brainworms at that

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