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The latest episode of Political Fictions is out:
In a scheduling choice completely unconnected to any contemporary political events, Mark and Cory talk about the 2004 Danish film full of leadership plotting, King’s Game. This is a proper conspiracy thriller, where even the children are Machiavellian geniuses. They question whether it really makes sense for plotters to document their evil schemes in such meticulous detail, bemoan the bad use of political polling in the film and debate how useful this film is as a how-to guide for potential leadership candidates.
You can view the IMDB page for King’s Game here.
Cory’s email newsletter is Paperback Rioter and Mark has a family of email newsletters.
Our theme tune is “Monkeys Spinning Monkeys” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) and licensed under the Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
As well as listening here, you can also listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or in your favourite podcast app.
Mark’s previous brief review of the film is here and as it explains, it’s a film you need to listen to right until the very end. Don’t turn off when you think it’s all over. It isn’t.
You can also watch a trailer here:
Next time we’re talking about the Yes, Minister special “Party Games”. If you’re in the UK then you can watch this on BBC iplayer.
Take it away Cory…
On Bank Holiday Monday I rewatched The Man With The Golden Gun. Whilst, sadly, there isn’t enough political content in that film to persuade Mark that we should add that film to our recording list, there’s a nice piece of political detail which I hadn’t spotted before.
It comes from Sheriff Pepper, a character reprising his role from Live And Let Die for some unfortunate comic relief. In true 1970s sitcom style Pepper is now on holiday in Thailand whilst Roger Moore is over there doing his thing, and Pepper’s wife asks if she can buy a wooden elephant figure. In response, Pepper spits and pours cold water on the idea: “We’re Democrats!”
The elephants get their revenge - one of them pushes Pepper into the river. American psephologists may wish to write in and correct me, but it strikes me that if the scene were made today, Pepper would change party allegiance. Rather than being a blue collar Democrat, I wonder if now this particular cop would now be a Republican.
Thank you for reading and hope you enjoy the episode. Feedback is always very welcome!
Best wishes,
Cory & Mark
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