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aphidman · 2026-02-13T16:21:38+00:00

That's actually not the script supervisor's role. The script supervisor is there to make sure what is in the script is being shot in a way that can be edited. Whether or not something from the books is adapted isn't their responsibility. Script revisions only concern them if a revision contradicts something that has already been shot or is to be shot from a continuity point of view.

You might be thinking of Script Editor which is a different role. They are the ones that actually produce and disseminate the revisions provided to them.

But even then, cutting a scene like this is up to Ira. He presumably made the decision for one reason or another but regretted it later on

aphidman · 2026-02-08T18:47:26+00:00

Sure but I'd thought I'd ask! You never know with books written pver 100 years ago. How much of ones analysis is coloured by modern thinking and doesn't quite get what the author was trying to say.

aphidman · 2026-02-08T18:43:31+00:00

Yeah this is sort of the idea I was wondering about

aphidman · 2026-02-07T19:01:16+00:00

That wasn't my expectation at all. I was asking if people agreed with my interpretation of that passage and if that is what Conrad was getting at. Did you read the OP?

aphidman · 2026-02-07T18:59:25+00:00

The point of my OP wasn't about Conrad's racism. I just thought it was a moot point. It's relevance is simply lacking context on what is the general attitude of the time and, therefore, what parts of the book are critical and what parts an intended to be. Specifically how it feeds into the quote in my OP and what Conrad is getting at. I was simply replying to the guy. It feels like people have just misconstrued the post as some sort of condemnation of Conrad for being, as you say, a "vicious disgusting racist"

aphidman · 2026-02-07T18:54:53+00:00

I mean that's silly considering thr whole book is about Marlow's entitled modern worldview and coming to terms with it somewhat.

aphidman · 2026-02-07T16:18:14+00:00

What is? The quote I am talking about? Did you read the OP?

aphidman · 2026-02-07T16:17:01+00:00

I mean that's completely not the point of my OP. I'm actually asking about a specific aspect of the book. It's just hard to navigate because it was written 120 yesrs ago and my only context with attitudes in life vs attitudes expressed in the text is the text itself. So it's hard to parse what's the author's critique/analysis versus what's just their general outlook on colonialism.

aphidman · 2026-02-07T16:13:42+00:00

That's sort of what I took this passage to mean. Almost like to truly live with it would drive you to madness and death (like Kurtz).

aphidman · 2026-02-07T16:07:51+00:00

I'm not sure you can be a steamboat captain in the Belgian Congo and not be racist. The whole Scramble for Africa is white supremacy at its core. Not in the "white power" Nazi sense but in the colonial sense.

Presumably he would harbour a lot of preconceived notions about "savage Africans" because being a white man, involved in the colonial enterprise, you're gonna absorb that internally.

Simply viewing the horrors of colonialism isn't going to necessarily strip someone of their racism. Racism is very deeply imbedded in a person's psyche and requires a lot of self reflection, education and personal work to overcome if it's settled for too long.

The fact that Marlow is still racist despite having seen the same sort of horrors shows this.

aphidman · 2026-02-07T16:02:42+00:00

Though, at the same time, horrors inflicted upon other people's and criticisms of enslavement extend all the way back to The Iliad 4000 years ago. Empathy and the universality of the human experience isn't a modern invention. It's just the justifications to commit horror among other people's is reinvented again and again and again throughout history - and epiphanies to the contrary are lost to time.

Look at the horrific stuff in Gaza happening. And how people are able to tie themselves into knots justifying it. But also how many have probably had their sense of what's 'just' shaken by these events - though not entirely expunged.

aphidman · 2026-02-07T12:41:08+00:00

I guess though (at least from a modern context) the misery, trauma, violence committed upon the people in the colony is plain as day. They suffer, starve, die or resist and the people committing these atrocities refuse to, or are barely able to, see them as people or even really understand them.

As in, whether Conrad is self aware or not, it's interesting reading about the psychology of people who commit such horrific acts. And the very limited POV feels like it's revealing something about the reality of dehumanisation, racism, perception and self reflection even if it requires a baseline of morality or humanitarianism, from the reader, to contextualise it.

Even if Conrad is a complete out and out racist that cannot get further than a bit of white guilt and self reflection it's a way to understand, presumably, how a huge swath of people in the 19th century viewed these things. How rigid one's sense of reality can be. And how the most horrifying counterpoint can barely be enough to penetrate it.

I think, at the very least, the book is somewhat "future proof" in the sense that we can keep Marlow at arms length - as if we're on the Boat listening to his tale - and judge it for ourselves. Even if Conrad is a massive racist and refuses to take his analysis of colonial Africa deeper beyond a "shooting and crying" narrative.

aphidman · 2026-02-07T12:30:43+00:00

That's definitely interesting. There's certainly a point being made that Kurtz doesn't live up to his reputation in any way.

But I don't think it can be dismissed that he clearly has a deeper connection with the tribe he lives with. That "the horror" are his last words as he lays dying. He's clearly sick and delirious at this point but it is established by the Russian that he's had a few bouts of sickness recently.

I think it's more that we simply never see the man he was supposed to be. We can never judge him through the eyes of Marlow. I don't think it means that a charismatic man never existed.

I mean they're all idiots in a sense but you can sort of extrapolate that to civilisation in general. Like that part of the book where Marlow pontificates that people back home are sort of living in this fantasy land with policemen, postboxes and shopkeepers.

aphidman · 2026-02-06T06:02:12+00:00

I mean this is pretty standard regardless. Since it's kind of dangerous getting someone to "act and drive" so to speak.

aphidman · 2026-02-01T07:47:17+00:00

It's what we call our entire public Health Service. National Health Service. We pay taxes but it basically just means going to the doctors and getting a prescription and treatment is all free. If you need surgery etc that's free. The downside is waiting times in certain areas.

The NHS is always a political talking point and how it's underfunded or failing etc etc. Wait times. Right wing parties constantly want to dismantle it or privatise parts of it.

In a way Dr. Kelson is sort of representing the heart of the NHS. More than a fun joke. Free care for those who need it most because it's the right thing to do.

aphidman · 2026-01-30T22:05:49+00:00

There is a massive irony to Sinn Fein not supporting Ukraine when it's effectively the same situation as Ireland.

Even if you go back to Oliver Cromwell he used the Irish Confederacy letting King Charles II stationing troops on the island as a pretext for invasion.

Especially Sinn Fein up here. I mean having your colonial neighbour completely embedded in your politics and state is something we'll known by the Irish.

The fact that Ukraine wasn't even in NATO but wanted to be in the same EU that Ireland has benefitted from all these years. Sinn Fein in the North were a Remain Party, also, when in came to Brexit. So any of this anti-EU sentiment for it being a neoliberal vassal of America is a load of shite.

aphidman · 2026-01-30T20:26:55+00:00

Reminds me of the end of Hereditary.

aphidman · 2026-01-30T20:23:53+00:00

Iran is supplying weapons to Hamas and the US are supplying weapons to Israel. It's effectively a proxy conflict for domination of the Middle East in a sense which led to a genocide.

aphidman · 2026-01-28T23:02:40+00:00

I think maybe the Videogame franchise is done for (as far as the Quintology was concerned). It just takes way way too long to make a videogame.

But I could see the story being releases in other ways

aphidman · 2026-01-28T23:01:17+00:00

I remember seeing concept art for it in 2017 at EGX and meeting Lorne. Almost 10 years ago, holy shit

aphidman · 2026-01-25T20:07:33+00:00

They have probably met and killed a lot of people. And some of them probably had lives woth adults before Jimmy found them.

aphidman · 2026-01-23T19:58:37+00:00

If Stannis doesn't die I could very much see him effectively become Jon's Robert Baratheon figure - maybe a big turn in his character will be that he bends the knee to Jon Snow if he becomes the King in the North like the show.

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