For the second consecutive week, Star Wars fans have a Disney+ gift in the form of new episodes of the second season of ‘Andor’. The new batch (they are being released in blocks of three) summons us a year later of the events of the explosive third chapter, and introduces a new narrative arch that puts the focus on the planet Ghorman.
With the usual detail attention that characterizes the series, Ghorman has his own culture and traditions. More immediately notorious, they have their own language, and one that also sounds disturbingly similar to French. Although there are elements of German also mixed, it is a comparison with the one that they have even hired French actors to give life to these new characters, such as the case of Thierry Godard. Of German inheritance we have Richard Sammel, a familiar face that we have seen in ‘Damn Bastards’.
It was the dialect coach Marina Tyndall The person in charge of designing this language for the series, and it was a great help to have Francophone actors that would help get a more convincing accent. His work covers the vocal dimension, and in the face of writing, work fell to two graphic designers, Elle McKee and Lauren Dix, who were in charge of the posters that are seen on the planet, well in Ghorle (Alto Ghor) or Dixian (Bajo Ghor).
While the Star Wars saga is not strange to introduce different alien languages, it is more strange to see the creation of an alternative language for humans. It is a conscientious detail that helps reinforce the culture of the place, and CIME THE CONNECTIONS WITH REAL HISTORY. In interviews Tony Gilroy has made his passion for history very clear, and how events such as the French Revolution have inspired a second season that goes specifically on the creation of a revolution.
Not only the language, the series has done everything possible to remind us of its real reference. From having a galactic architecture very different from any other we have seen in Star Wars, to the sense of fashion or details such as pigeons walking through the table of a cafeteria. For more Inri, the series was even filming these scenes in Paris, but ultimately they remained in the legendary Pinewood studies in the United Kingdom, which have accompanied the saga from the beginning.
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