The Man In The High Castle [Extra Quality]
The principal setting of The Man in the High Castle is the city of San Francisco in the Pacific States of America, where Japanese judicial racism has enslaved black people and reduced the Chinese residents to second-class citizens; secondary settings are in the Rocky Mountain States. In 1962, fifteen years after Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany won World War II, in the Pacific States of America, the businessman Robert Childan owns an antiques shop that specializes in Americana for a Japanese clientele who fetishize cultural artifacts of the former United States. One day, Childan receives a request from Nobusuke Tagomi, a high-ranking trade official, who seeks a gift to impress a Swedish industrialist named Baynes. In fact, Childan can readily fulfill Tagomi's request because the shop is well-stocked with counterfeit antiques made by the metal works Wyndam-Matson Corporation.
The Man in the High Castle
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Western North America, now part of the "Japanese Pacific States", is occupied by the technologically less-advanced Shōwa-period Empire of Japan, which has assimilated its formerly American citizens into Japanese culture, although high-class ethnic Japanese are extremely fascinated by pre-War American culture. Japan's Trade and Science ministers work in the Pacific States' capital, San Francisco. The Japanese rulers subject non-Japanese people to racial discrimination and grant them fewer rights.
Eastern and Midwestern North America is a colony controlled by the Greater Nazi Reich (GNR) under an aging Führer Adolf Hitler. The colony, headed by a "Reichsmarschall of North America", is commonly referred to as "Nazi America" or "the American Reich" and its capital is New York City. The Nazis continue to hunt minorities and euthanize the physically and mentally sick. The superior technology of the Germans is highlighted by the use of video phones and Concorde-like "rockets" for intercontinental travel.
As counterfactual history, the show allows the audience to look in the mirror and ask themselves if what they see could actually happen. Within The Man in the High Castle, everyday Americans easily fall into line under both Japanese and Nazi rule. An early illustration of the moral slippery slope is a chilling scene where a highway patrolman brushes off ashes falling from the sky, informing Joe Blake that it is the hospital removing the ashes of cremated undesirables. In the series, the undesirables range from Jews to the terminally ill. With this scene, the series forces upon the audience the question of who could be an undesirable today.
In The Man in the High Castle, a greater Nazi Reich led by Heydrich means a high probability of nuclear war. Similar to modern day geopolitical objectives, stability reigns supreme. This is where the series reaches its powerful zenith; this fictional world, and its audience need Hitler to survive.
We are living in days where the hard line between feature films and TV series becomes more blurred, because the latter uses beautiful cinematography, complex of visual effects, high-end filming gear, complex set and costume design, and convincing performance by a good cast of actors. Gonzalo Amat says that being part of that pioneers wave is a great privilege.
The team works on the series one episode at a time in the order we watch them. About 70% of the series is filmed on real locations. The rest of it is executed on sound stages such as the office of the American Reich high official John Smith. The usual preproduction period is between one and two weeks. Filming is usually finished in 10-14 days and the raw footage goes into post production.
Using bright windows to frame silhouettes is a common technique in all episodes. Gonzalo Amat says that whenever he posts a silhouette image on his Instagram account, the response from the audience is surprisingly higher.
Over on the West Coast, we meet a Resistance leader who grew up in Manzanar, the Japanese Internment Camp. While in our timeline Japanese Internment camps are defended in letter to The New York Times, in hers, she is seen as a traitor to Japan for growing up in America, and traitor to the former United States because of her Japanese heritage. She has higher status than the white citizens, and can pass as full-Japanese if she chooses to dress a certain way and use a precise accent, but she knows that the Japanese who occupy the Pacific States hate her as much as they hate the rest of the former Americans.
By stepping into Oskar's fictional shoes, I was forced to think about past as present. I'll admit I have always loved history, but the thought experiment was thrilling in a way that few of my high school history classes had been. I'm certain the choose-your-own-adventure-type assignment left me with a fuller, richer take on the facts and chronologies.
At Morty's irritating insistence, Rick invents a love potion that the high schooler can use on the girl for whom he has a crush. Unfortunately, she has the flu, so the serum quickly spreads like a virus between students, teachers, and the world at large until literally everyone loves Morty.
Nobusuke Tagomi, a Japanese political official is awaiting Mr. Baynes, a Swedish diplomat traveling by high-speed German rocket. Tagomi is anxious to strike a deal with Baynes to gain more information about their high-tech plastics, which put the Germans in the lead to colonize space. Without access to this technology, the Japanese are struggling to keep up economically.
Episode 1 of High Castle accomplishes its goal. It is an interesting and simple setup; New World builds this alternate history with high production quality, strong characters, and powerful imagery. Some of the material will offend, with racial slurs, swastikas, and violence. Considering the brutality of the Nazi regime, I only expect it to get worse. Overall, it is a good thought experiment that I hope will cause viewers to consider their actions and what evil they permit.
Andrews brought his enthusiasm for architecture back with him to the United States. In addition to his work as a reporter, teacher, and building inspector, he devoted much of his life to constructing a castle on a 1.5-acre parcel of land along the Little Miami River in Loveland, Ohio, which he dubbed Chateau La Roche after the French hospital in which he served during the war. 041b061a72