{"id":667480,"date":"2025-05-07T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T03:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/andor-creator-on-that-stunner-genocide-speech-and-its-real-life-inspiration\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T06:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T03:00:42","slug":"andor-creator-on-that-stunner-genocide-speech-and-its-real-life-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/andor-creator-on-that-stunner-genocide-speech-and-its-real-life-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Andor\u2019 Creator on That Stunner \u201cGenocide\u201d Speech and Its Real-Life Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tGreat sci-fi often serves as an allegory for current social<\/a> and political issues. <\/p>\n

\n\tBut never before has Star Wars hit such a topical bullseye as Tuesday\u2019s episodes of Andor<\/em> season two when a character delivered a stunner speech that warned of rising government authoritarianism as well as the dilution of a fact-based reality, and forcefully lashed out<\/strong> about the reluctance to use the word \u201cgenocide.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAiring on Disney+ the same day a Drudge Report<\/em> headline became the latest to warn of \u201cAmerica\u2019s Slide Into Authoritarianism,\u201d the acclaimed drama series<\/a> featured a sequence where the courageous politician Mon Mothma (Genevieve O\u2019Reilly) risks her life to deliver a speech before the Galactic Senate where she furiously attacked Emperor Palpatine and his rising Imperial forces. But one can also easily imagine her words being said by a politician on C-SPAN right now. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI believe we are in crisis,\u201d Mothma says. \u201cThe distance between what is said today and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the app<\/a>etite of whatever monster screams the loudest.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd then, referring to a previous sequence showing Imperial forces massacring peaceful protesters on the planet Ghorman \u2014 a world the Imperials invaded to exploit a precious mineral \u2014 Mothma says, \u201cWhat took place yesterday\u2026 was unprovoked genocide<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt this word, the other senators cry out in protest. \u201cYes, genocide<\/em>!\u201d she repeated. \u201cAnd the monster screaming the loudest, that we helped create, the monster who will come for us all, soon enough, is Emperor Palpatine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s worth noting that Andor<\/em> season two began production in November 2022 and wrapped around February 2024. So filming was completed long before the reelection of Donald Trump and just a few months after the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 (the latter having sparked much debate among experts \u2014 such as here<\/a> and here<\/a> \u2014 over the right or wrongness of using the word \u201cgenocide\u201d when describing Israel\u2019s military response in Gaza).<\/p>\n

\n\tAsked about the sequence and its real-life inspirations, Andor<\/em> creator Tony Gilroy told The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>, \u201cThe really sorry truth about the about this question \u2014 and we get it a lot \u2014 is that peace and prosperity and calm are the rarities. Those are rarities throughout the last 6,000 years of recorded history. You could drop this show at any point in the last 6,000 years, and it would make sense to some people about what\u2019s happening to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tContinued Gilroy: \u201cI mean, the control of truth has always been a scabbard of power. Power dictates the narrative, and always has tried to always do that. Look at what the Empire does to Ghorman with their propaganda campaign. The very first scene [in the season] that Krennic has where he talks about Ghorman, that\u2019s based on the Wannsee convention \u2014 the convention where the Nazis got together and planned the final solution over a business lunch. You could say all this about the Gulf of Tonkin \u2014 which got America into Vietnam \u2014 or you could say the burning of the Reichstag [which paved the way to the Nazi\u2019s rise to power], or you could say the sinking of the Lusitania [which pushed America into World War I]. You go all the way through history, and power is the control of truth. So I think with that speech, we were looking to be timeless and classic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAdded the creator, a bit wearily, \u201cAnd I\u2019m not psychic.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe second and final season of the Star Wars drama has been not pulling punches when it comes to depicting a wartime drama. In addition to that Wannsee convention scene (see the real-life photos and how closely the Andor<\/em> setting matched up), the show made headlines during its premiere episodes by staging the first rape attempt in Star Wars content in a scene involving Bix (Adria Arjona).<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI get one shot to tell everything I know \u2014 or can discover, or that I\u2019ve learned \u2014 about revolution, about battles, with as many incidents and as many colors as I can get in there, without having [the story] tip over,\u201d Gilroy said about the latter sequence. \u201cI mean, let\u2019s be honest, man: The history of civilization, there\u2019s a huge arterial component of it that\u2019s rape. All of us who are here \u2014 we are all the product of rape. I mean armies and power throughout history [have committed rape]. So to not touch on it, in some way\u2026 It just was organic and it felt right, coming about as a power trip<\/a> for this guy. I was really trying to make a path for Bix that would ultimately lead to clarity \u2014 but a difficult path to get back to clarity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAndor<\/em> Disney+\u2019s acclaimed Star Wars drama series which\u00a0currently has the highest rating of any Star Wars TV show or movie on Rotten Tomatoes. The show follows the adventures of Rebel Alliance leader Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) and leads up to the events in the film\u00a0Rogue One<\/em>. The final three episodes air next week. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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