The 1800s were an incredibly dynamic century so enough with the bougie shows about royalty and aristocrats. Gimme a show about the factory workers in the midst of the Industrial Revolution and their fight for labor rights.
I want to see workers suffering under the capitalist's yoke, reading theory, organizing in secret, striking and fighting. Some rich character drama in the factions that don't want to lose their jobs by unionizing, or in finding rats among them, or facing against the police.
Give me that worker's struggle drama instead of yet another goddamn aristocracy show
The Bourgeoisie media will try to forever pretend that the bourgeoisie are the only real humans. Sometimes they will toss in working class people for a narrative, but its not unlike you tossing in some basil to garnish a dish once you are done cooking it. The dish is done, and the garnish is an afterthought.
fiction that accurately portrays the lower classes is flat out depressing as FUCK, that's part of why stories are rarely told about them. also our lives are a hell of a lot more monotonous and we never get to do any of the exciting or interesting things that the
kingsrich get to do.bruh nah, our lives are just as interesting and complex. don't give in to that kind of thinking.
Nah man the interpersonal drama of the working class seizing its due would be cool as hell. They never show aristocrats doing jack shit but fucking each other and duelling and anyone can do that tbh
They might make some shit like that, but the message will be "unions/poors bad" and the hero is the
capitalist pig"industrialist" that saves the poor girl or some shit like that.The factory owner dies and his failson gives everyone a raise. The end.
Imagine this: Die Hard, but the Christmas party is a picket line bad guys are Pinkertons.
come to
the coasthomestead, we'll get together, have a few laughs
To be fair, fiction about aristocrats is easier because it's lazy. Need an army? Boom, army. Need the funds to secure all the logistics of moving that army? Boom, done. Need the freedom to do whatever the heck you want without worrying about your finances? Boom, done. Need your every single whim to have gravitas? Boom, you can arbitrarily order someone killed or uproot the lives of many people with just a command.
Fiction about aristocrats is easy because it's lazy; all the expensive and difficult details can be handled by either the money in your account, or the powerful people in your pocket.
The other side of it is to have your character be friends with powerful people.
a prestige tv show about labor history would blow, no offense. the think pieces alone would be sui bait.
There's a brilliant Russian silent film called Strike! that you should check out. It's been a while since I watched it but it's about Russia becoming industrialized and the workers striking for their rights. It's really funny and has some clever and witty uses of perspective.
Every Eisenstein film is pretty fuckin good tbh. You could go Strike! (1925) ---> Battleship Potemkin (1925) ---> October: Ten Days That Shook The World (1927) to get a trilogy of sorts, concluding with the glorious October Revolution :lenin-pogger:
Agreed. To hook people on stuff like that I think "Pride" (post 2000) is nice. It makes a lot of people watching want to be more active. From then on you can use the Soviet movie precedence.
Yeah I recommend it. Shows a view of reality (use of violence) that is often not shown by bourgeoisie media.
I've not gotten round to watching it yet but I'm pretty sure this is Peaky Blinders?
(Like I said, could easily be wrong. I watch too much wrestling to have time for good TV shows.)
Peaky blinders touches on this, yes. Great show if you're into gangster stuff. It's about a working class gang/family as they grow in power. The first season has a small plot of one of the minor characters being a communist and organizing his work place.
The later seasons feel removed from the working class character of the first one. It's a problem with any crime/anti-hero show. When they're small and scrappy it's easy to root for them. When they're
the biggest gang in England, any plot that puts the family in danger feels strained/forced. Still like the show, but it's less cool seeing him pretend to be a socialist MP and being a beeg capitalist.
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OK but what if the English aristocracy had some POC? Did you ever consider that? I didn't think so
I was literally thinking of Bridgerton while writing this. I don't give a shit about the Duke not wanting babby. Give me a show about the servants and that boxer guy.
River Monsters is nothing like that but it's a great show about fishing
Harlots is 18th century but covers a lot of that ground. Want to see women workers (sex and otherwise) struggle against their oppressors? That's the show. And you still get the pretty dresses.
