<description>&lt;h4&gt;This is a crossover episode with the &lt;a href= "https://seconddecade.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Second Decade podcast&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;After partying in the future (or what &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; the future) in the last episode, Sean and Cody journey to the past, exchanging their grunge duds for waistcoats and cravats as they invade Russia in 1812. In &lt;em&gt;War &amp; Peace&lt;/em&gt;, the BBC television miniseries from 2016, Russian trust fund baby Pierre Bezhukov (Paul Dano) is so distracted with the long walks he takes to find himself that he stumbles onto the largest battlefield of the entire Napoleonic Wars. After someone leaves the iron on and reduces Moscow to ashes, Pierre straggles through the snow to find his way back into the Regency-era melodrama where his bae Natasha (Lily James) finds herself unexpectedly single. Environmental issues discussed include the Russians’ campaign of ecological warfare against Napoleon, the true responsibility for the Great Fire of Moscow, and Leo Tolstoy’s own brand of Christian anarchist environmentalism.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;How was Napoleon’s invasion of Russia destined to be won or lost on environmental factors? Who really burnt Moscow and did they do it deliberately? Was Bonaparte a military genius or was he doomed to get his hots stomped in Russia? What kind of person would copy the entirety of War and Peace in longhand six times? How long is &lt;em&gt;War and Peace&lt;/em&gt;, exactly, and why is it wrong to answer this question in terms of page numbers? Was Tolstoy an environmentalist? Has anyone ever done his masterpiece novel justice on the screen? Who was Andrei Rublev and why did the Soviets want to make a movie about him? All these questions and more are retreating from the field in a long shivering column for our inspection in this well-costumed episode of &lt;em&gt;Green Screen&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;War and Peace&lt;/em&gt; (2016) at IMDB: &lt;a href= "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3910804/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"&gt;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3910804/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;em&gt;War and Peace&lt;/em&gt; (2016) at Letterboxd: &lt;a href= "https://letterboxd.com/film/war-and-peace-2016/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"&gt;https://letterboxd.com/film/war-and-peace-2016/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Next Movie Up: &lt;em&gt;Parasite&lt;/em&gt; (2019)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href= "https://greenscreenpod.com/2021/02/17/episode-28-war-and-peace/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Additional Materials About This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Green Screen

Sean Munger

War and Peace (Crossover with Second Decade Podcast)

FEB 18, 202161 MIN
Green Screen

War and Peace (Crossover with Second Decade Podcast)

FEB 18, 202161 MIN

Description

This is a crossover episode with the Second Decade podcast.

After partying in the future (or what was the future) in the last episode, Sean and Cody journey to the past, exchanging their grunge duds for waistcoats and cravats as they invade Russia in 1812. In War & Peace, the BBC television miniseries from 2016, Russian trust fund baby Pierre Bezhukov (Paul Dano) is so distracted with the long walks he takes to find himself that he stumbles onto the largest battlefield of the entire Napoleonic Wars. After someone leaves the iron on and reduces Moscow to ashes, Pierre straggles through the snow to find his way back into the Regency-era melodrama where his bae Natasha (Lily James) finds herself unexpectedly single. Environmental issues discussed include the Russians’ campaign of ecological warfare against Napoleon, the true responsibility for the Great Fire of Moscow, and Leo Tolstoy’s own brand of Christian anarchist environmentalism.

How was Napoleon’s invasion of Russia destined to be won or lost on environmental factors? Who really burnt Moscow and did they do it deliberately? Was Bonaparte a military genius or was he doomed to get his hots stomped in Russia? What kind of person would copy the entirety of War and Peace in longhand six times? How long is War and Peace, exactly, and why is it wrong to answer this question in terms of page numbers? Was Tolstoy an environmentalist? Has anyone ever done his masterpiece novel justice on the screen? Who was Andrei Rublev and why did the Soviets want to make a movie about him? All these questions and more are retreating from the field in a long shivering column for our inspection in this well-costumed episode of Green Screen.

War and Peace (2016) at IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3910804/ War and Peace (2016) at Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/war-and-peace-2016/

Next Movie Up: Parasite (2019)

Additional Materials About This Episode