{"id":21757,"date":"2013-12-05T00:50:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T05:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=21757"},"modified":"2013-12-05T00:51:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T05:51:32","slug":"metro-2033-ep16-knife-a-wooden-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=21757","title":{"rendered":"Metro 2033 EP16: Knife a Wooden Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1C1SHg-xirA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1C1SHg-xirA'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really interesting to hear these Russian idioms about the Soviet Union, as translated into English. Like Rutskarn, I don&#8217;t know what to make of the character who said that D6 was just like old Hollywood movies about the Soviet Union.  I&#8217;m a present-day American playing a Ukrainian videogame based on Russain novel where a future Russian comments on Hollywood movies of the past that commented on the Soviets of the more distant past. That&#8217;s too many layers of removal for me to reconstruct the original intent. <\/p>\n<p>I mean, in the typical Hollywood movies the Soviets were usually bad guys. And oddly enough, this wasn&#8217;t because there was much antipathy for the Soviets. They were the bad guys because they were the only guy big enough to be an interesting foil for our American protagonists. Then again, those were movies made by generally shallow writers, intended for an audience that (according to the writers) was even more shallow. Soviets as portrayed by Hollywood according to what Hollywood thought the average person thought of the Soviets. Again, that&#8217;s so many lenses that I can&#8217;t make sense of the original image. (And this is simplifying Hollywood itself into a single lens, when there are actually a few layers to it, taking into account the difference between what gets written and what gets funded.) <\/p>\n<p>So I don&#8217;t know what to make of the Hollywood comment, except that I would love to see how Russians would respond to the average Hollywood depiction of the Soviet Union. It&#8217;s obvious our movies have made it over there. Do they laugh? Are they offended? Do they see any truth buried in the cornball fiction? I dunno. My guess is that it depends on the age of the viewer. People who grew up and lived in the Soviet Union are probably more touchy about it than the generations that followed. <\/p>\n<p>In any case, this game is a rare moment where we get to see the Soviet stuff through a non-western lens. <\/p>\n<p>Also, yes I was referencing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=54VJWHL2K3I\">this song<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>And finally: Screw that amoebae section. Screw that and everything associated with it.<\/p>\n<p>This season of Spoiler Warning will wrap up with the next entry.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) It&#8217;s really interesting to hear these Russian idioms about the Soviet Union, as translated into English. Like Rutskarn, I don&#8217;t know what to make of the character who said that D6 was just like old Hollywood movies about the Soviet Union. I&#8217;m a present-day American playing a Ukrainian videogame based on Russain novel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[317],"class_list":["post-21757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-metro-2033"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}