David Simon is trying to create a series on the spanish civil war. Very interesting as The wire is one of my favourite TV series.
One thing to keep in mind is that at his core he is a left wing, FDR style liberal, not an anarchist, not a socialist or communist. His depiction of the police in The wire, while complex and fascinating is still no doubt symphatetic to the police, even tho the BPD have time and time again been proven to be a despicable bunch of bastards,m with Freddie Gray and the squads who were carrying around toy guns to plant on shot victims. The wire never blamed the people but rather the bueorocracy and structures.
He will have a focus on the Abraham Lincoln brigade. Perhaps depicting the idealistic start in Madrid, the ideological diversity of the volunteer Americans and the slow decent into low intensity civil war on the republican side. My guess is he is going to put too much blame on the communists and the Soviet union and not enough on the liberals in the Republican government as he is one himself.
I'm mad at the mere idea, but still, if any American were to do this David Simon is probably the best established TV series creator who could have been chosen.
This is a quote from David Simon that makes me mildly optimistic
“when the Spanish Republic was threatened, capitalism chose tyranny. So the better men who could not abide that choice came to Spain [to fight]. Today, that same choice confronts us again.”
Is there another thread on this or are people not interested?
Justin Robinson
Hopefully it'll be useful for us and people like Zizek for cultural theory
John Adams
I can already see the cartoonishly evil Stalinists foiling every attempt by the good guys to bring democracy to Spain.
Sebastian Jackson
I'm afraid of this, but it ite still be good
David Simon is no Aaron Sorkin after all
Jack Davis
The worst thing he could do is liberal anti-political pessimism
Zachary Nguyen
how can one make a series on a unit that did jack shit the whole war and had little actual contact with native people except when selectively exposed to them by spanish government and then when their mettle is tested actually they get btfo and obliterated by the enemy. I'd support the republican side still, but common this unit was pathetic as fuck
Carter Robinson
lmao so they should make a series of the unit in the civil war which was the most elite, the navy seals of the republican side lol
the depiction of actual combat would hardly be the most interesting part of a series like this
Christian Young
It's going to be fucking awful. The Wire is copaganda, David Simon is a capitalism-loving, cop-loving liberal. Now he's going to do anti-communist propaganda focusing on the Spanish civil war. It's 100% guaranteed to be anti-communist propaganda. Bonus: "Join Roj*va!!!"
Joshua Howard
YOU COULD HAVE STOPPED THIS YOU ONLY HAD TO HEED MY WARNINGS
