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Is Chris Evans yet another white savior? Does the “group as protagonist” gag work for anything except silent Russian propaganda films? And where DO they fit the cattle on that train? These questions and more answered in this week’s discussion revolving around class struggles depicted in film. Sergei Eisenstein’s Strike serves as an example of how these struggles were portrayed in the past, and the long-awaited Bong Joon-ho film Snowpiercer shows us what they might look like in the future. Plus a discussion about the genre in general, and how what worked back in the day might not be palatable for western audiences now. Don’t miss it!
RUNDOWN
Intro
0:00 – 2:00
Theme discussion: Class struggles and the western POV
2:00 – 18:00
Discussion: Strike (1925) (spoilers)
18:00 – 30:30
Review: Snowpiercer (no spoilers)
30:30 – 47:45
Snowpiercer spoilers
47:45 – 1:03:00
Next week and outro
1:03:00 – 1:05:00
LINKS & NOTES
BlinkPopShift: Harder is Better? (YouTube)
SONGS
Bruce Springsteen, “How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?
Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson, “Winter Song
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