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It's barely star wars. It's a competent spy thriller with star wars paint. Turns out that makes for pretty good adult oriented star wars.

• Joeboy 1y ago
  Tony Gilroy's mentioned a lot of influences on Andor, few if any of which had anything to do with Star Wars. Off the top of my head: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Shadows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Shadows * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_Berlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_Berlin * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_village_fran%C3%A7ais https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_village_fran%C3%A7ais
  • ahns 1y ago
    To add to this, non-exhaustively, from various other places including reddit: Krennic's meeting on kalkite: * structured like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Conference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Conference * takes place at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kehlsteinhaus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kehlsteinhaus the Aldhani heist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907_Tiflis_bank_robbery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907_Tiflis_bank_robbery Ferrix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles Vel Sartha: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Dugdale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Dugdale * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolours_Price https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolours_Price * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction Kleya Marki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan the Dhanis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1mi_people#Discrimination_against_the_S%C3%A1mi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1mi_people#Discriminatio... escape from Narkina 5: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_Prison_escape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_Prison_escape * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauthausen_concentration_camp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauthausen_concentration_camp * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobibor_uprising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobibor_uprising * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrba%E2%80%93Wetzler_report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrba%E2%80%93Wetzler_report Rix Road: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporals_killings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporals_killings * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shireen_Abu_Akleh#Funeral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shireen_Abu_Akleh#Funeral Mon Mothma's speech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Wels#Speech_in_opposition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Wels#Speech_in_opposition Ghormans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Resistance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Resistance Ghorman massacre: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1972) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1972) * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabaa_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabaa_massacre * and perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesian_weavers%27_uprising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesian_weavers%27_uprising Obviously the comparisons aren't exact, but it's clear the show had a great many sources of inspiration (or maybe history rhymes as it always has).
• hackyhacky 1y ago
  Star Wars is barely Star Wars: it's just Flash Gordon and Dam Busters with Star Wars paint. You can't escape your influences, and you don't need to.
• jimbokun 1y ago
  In a strange way, that makes it a better fit as a prequel for the original trilogy. Compared to other Sci Fi movies at the time, Star Wars introduced a grungier, lived in universe where space ships got banged up and dirty, various species hung out in treacherous backwater saloons, and smugglers were just trying to make a living in the shadow of the Empire. That's the reality Andor is set in, without the Jedi, and you really feels the difficulty of living in that reality without magic powers or a laser sword.