[Este artículo incluye SPOILERS de ‘ANDOR’ temporada 2, episodios 7-9]
Among the many virtues of Andor, that place it as the Best series of Star Wars that has come out of the purchase of Lucasfilm by Disney, It emphasizes that its creator, Tony Gilroy, has been free to convert galactic production into a Own work, closer to your interests as a creator that to any debt or canonical pleites with the universe devised by George Lucas.
Dodging those concessions to fan service, And following its own path, it has been how the history of the rebel soldier played by Diego Luna -what At the conclusion it will connect with the movie Rogue One (2016), In itself a prequel to the first installment of the saga – has become such a well -valued title. And also maintaining a relevant connection with the real world in its presentation of resistance to an authoritarian government and their mechanisms to hold on to power.
In the third block of episodes [7-9]released this week in Disney+, Those echoes of the real history of our planet in the events of the galaxy very far, have reached a summit with The speech that Senator Mon Mothma, played by Genevieve O’Reilly, proclaims in front of the galactic Senate playing the skin while denounces the authoritarianism of Emperor Palpatine and the reluctance to use the term “genocide”.
El discso de mon mothma
“We are in crisis. Today the distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss, “proclaims Mon Mothma, also warning of the danger of abandoning the truth as rector of reality. And, when referring to the massacre of the inhabitants of Ghorman who pacificly protested against the empire, he has no remilge in calling him “A genocide.”
The choice of the term unleashes the whispers and protests among the other members of the camera, which leads the senator to reaffirm: “Yes, genocio!” a 1.gura Mathma. “The monster we have helped to create, and that will soon come for all of us is Emperor Palpatine.”
Like any fan of Star Wars knows, the parallelism between the rise to the power of the galactic empire and that of the Nazi party in the German interwar They are more than evident since Lucas conceived his galactic saga. Tony Gilroy has had this very present in his conception of Andor, next to his brother And gilroy, That signs the scripts of these episodes, but, unfortunately, other possible inspirations in the human history of power and destruction do not scarce.
“The control of truth has always been a weapon of power. Power dictates the narrative and has always tried to do so. It is what the empire does Ghorman with his propaganda campaign,” said Tony Gilroy in The Hollywood Reporter About his inspiration. “The first scene in which Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn) talks about Ghorman is based on Wansee’s conference, The convention where the Nazis gathered and planned the final solution during a business meal. “
But that was not the only inspiration. “You could say all the same of the Tonkín Gulf incident [en 1964]which led UU to Vietnam, or the Reichstag fire [que allanó el camino para el ascenso de los nazis al poder]or the sinking of Lusitania [que empujó a EE UU a la Primera Guerra Mundial]”, he adds.” If you travel the whole story, Power is the control of truth. With that speech, we were looking to be timeless and classic. “
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