IDSG Bonus Ep2 The Third Man
In the second of our new bonus episodes, exclusively available to backers for the forseeable future, Daniel and I discuss The Third Man (1949), directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene, starring Joseph Cotton, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles.
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On soap operas. Baring 'Neighbours', which is a fantasy Australia for Brits, most of the "real life" ones have just incorporated the pandemic into ongoing plotlines. I think it is similar to how pulp fiction frequently tackles social issues decades before serious literature. Class, racialised injustice, sex, gender, and consent all come up in horror, romance, scifi, and the like... I think it is because soap operas and pulp fiction are just so much cheaper to manufacture. So a lot more diverse set of commodities can be made.