Gina Prince-Bythewood's Netflix action movie The Old Guard presents a world of muted tones, boring operators, and a heroic mercenary group who are redeemed through their queer romances. We discuss the film's aesthetics, its Netflixy-approach to everything, queerness and racial politics, Orientalism, dying for a Camaro, immortality, spiritual-seeking, and the hotness of other podcasters we know.
Plus, we have exactly one (1) shocking revelation to share about the making-of The Old Guard in our patented reading series.
ReComradations
Evan: [1] Hitman 2 from IO Interactive (2018) [2] Battle for the Planet of the Apes, dir. J. Lee Thompson (1973)
Laura: The Beguiled, dir. Sofia Coppola (2017)
Abdul: [1] The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins [2] Rise and Kill First: the Secret History of Israel's Tragetted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman