Geordie Williamson
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728 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2018
last heard 21 Aug
Geordie Williamson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She will stay above water and stay the most
most beautiful woman in the world.
I know, it's a bloody disaster.
The poor fellow is obviously so elderly and psychologically infirm that he we wear inside his head and all we can hear is kind of a reiteration of the three stories that he can remember and he can't remember the punchlines.
But what becomes clear is he's being dragged on by the the party, the official party communications organs.
to talk in part about his old colleague and mentor Pabst, and that's our introduction.
But what we already know is this is a man who is morally compromised, and his response in a way has been to mentally shut down and it really does set the stage, I think, marvellously for what happens afterwards.
But in terms of structure, I mean, when I was doing a bit of um
Google stalking on Pabst.
I didn't realize that he was basically the inventor of the in invisible cut.
So he'd sort of cut on action while bodies were in movement.
So none of that kind of stagey theatre style cutting of early cinema.
He was the person who started making it feel and look like documentary realism.
Mm-hmm.
And I think that that Kalman's trying to achieve that with his kind of swapping between
Between chapters, between moments in time and particular individuals and perspectives.
But the um I mean I think the important uh thing to take away from that is that he says what the ocean liner uh caste that he imagines must now do, having learned that the war was fake, is to carry on as if civilization hasn't been rent apart.
And it's that um hypocrisy or it's that pretense that everything is okay, which is sort of exploded.
Throughout the remainder of the book, because at that same party, he's accosted by a very nervous engineer for General Electrics, who's another German émigré who plays golf with the guy holding the party, who takes Pabs aside and said, Look, you know, you might be a communist, but you're not a Jew.
We will have you back and you can make movies and we'll give you money to make them.
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