Paleu
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Post by Paleu on Mar 1, 2017 17:35:26 GMT -5
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Mar 6, 2017 18:20:29 GMT -5
Paleu I read it over breakfast and thought it was awesome!
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Mar 10, 2017 13:02:43 GMT -5
I'll totally admit that I just kinda poured this thing out, so any and all feedback, including pointing any glaring typos that I truly didn't even check for would be greatly appreciated! If this is you just pouring things out, I can't imagine what it's like when you write lucidly intentionally. This is great, and something I'd much agree with (I wasn't at all surprised at how Rogue One 'complicated' the rebellion while keeping the idea broadly sympathetic to a liberal audience - the way some people online reacted you'd think they expected the politics of Star Wars to be The Battle of Algiers in space, which is an unrealistic hope for mass marketed Disney product.) |
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Paleu
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Post by Paleu on Mar 15, 2017 16:22:53 GMT -5
I'll totally admit that I just kinda poured this thing out, so any and all feedback, including pointing any glaring typos that I truly didn't even check for would be greatly appreciated! If this is you just pouring things out, I can't imagine what it's like when you write lucidly intentionally. This is great, and something I'd much agree with (I wasn't at all surprised at how Rogue One 'complicated' the rebellion while keeping the idea broadly sympathetic to a liberal audience - the way some people online reacted you'd think they expected the politics of Star Wars to be The Battle of Algiers in space, which is an unrealistic hope for mass marketed Disney product.) Thank you and Jean-Luc Lemur so much for the praise. A lot of the ideas in the essay have definitely been percolating in my mind for a while; it's funny that you mention Rogue One, because my disappointment with how it handled the insurgents on Jedha can definitely be pointed to as another example of what I'm talking about here. I initially thought it was really cool how they were re-appropriating imagery that obviously referred to the Iraq war in a context where the US was perhaps the paradigmatic example of an evil empire...but it didn't really do anything with that. I don't even think limiting popular science fiction to conventional political ideologies is entirely a bad thing, since it hardly means that the movies lack artistry or even any political bite (there is a pretty large gap between Sanders-style democratic socialism and Trumpism, after all, and they're both fairly mainstream ideologies). But it's always frustrating when movies like Rogue One or Jupiter Ascending make feints towards more radical political messaging but then gets swallowed by trite, ultimately apolitical garbage. And, of course, what helps to make Snowpiercer so refreshing! |
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