I'll definitely watch it when I'm in the right head-space for it. I only wish it also wasn't timely too.
I would have preferred it to be a pure tribute to the past, yes. But I'm not sure anything ever really is.
(That said, I continue to feel that nobody asked for this remix of the twentieth century and the fact that I sort of called it doesn't make me feel better at all.)
I learned a great deal about the German American Bund when I was writing an RPG project about the "Golden Age" of SF, and also learned more about the various efforts by US SF authors of the day to push back against Nazis local and abroad.
What was the RPG?
Including, surprisingly, E. E. Smith, where even in Galactic Patrol (1937), his villains were clearly space-Nazis (although of a far more thug-like sort than later depictions of Nazis and space-Nazis).
I don't think I knew that! I haven't read any of the Lensman books in ages. This does make me want to pick them back up again.
I'm also reminded of Warner Brothers making Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) and how they made it despite the warning from the HUAC "against slurring a 'friendly country'"
The degree to which the Production Code constrained the movies from engaging on the most basic levels with the world as it was never ceases to amaze me, although that amazement is mostly rage. If you want to see a total failure to bring anti-fascism to the screen, watch Out of the Fog (1941) and then seriously chase it with Edward G. Robinson or at least that YouTube clip where Richard Spencer gets punched in the face.
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I would have preferred it to be a pure tribute to the past, yes. But I'm not sure anything ever really is.
(That said, I continue to feel that nobody asked for this remix of the twentieth century and the fact that I sort of called it doesn't make me feel better at all.)
I learned a great deal about the German American Bund when I was writing an RPG project about the "Golden Age" of SF, and also learned more about the various efforts by US SF authors of the day to push back against Nazis local and abroad.
What was the RPG?
Including, surprisingly, E. E. Smith, where even in Galactic Patrol (1937), his villains were clearly space-Nazis (although of a far more thug-like sort than later depictions of Nazis and space-Nazis).
I don't think I knew that! I haven't read any of the Lensman books in ages. This does make me want to pick them back up again.
I'm also reminded of Warner Brothers making Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) and how they made it despite the warning from the HUAC "against slurring a 'friendly country'"
The degree to which the Production Code constrained the movies from engaging on the most basic levels with the world as it was never ceases to amaze me, although that amazement is mostly rage. If you want to see a total failure to bring anti-fascism to the screen, watch Out of the Fog (1941) and then seriously chase it with Edward G. Robinson or at least that YouTube clip where Richard Spencer gets punched in the face.