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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 10

      6. With his dual patrimony of James Bond pastiche (Robert Vaughn) & English upper-class wastrel (de Ver Drummond was godson of George VI), Matthew Vaughn fused together a narrative that recreates myths of early 20th century English ruling class.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 10

      7. To understand King's Man, important to go back to John Buchan (1875-1940), Scotsman on the make, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, Indigenous cultural appropriator, & all-father of British spy fiction from Hitchcock to Bond to Le Carrepic.twitter.com/VpGSl8AZ2E

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 10

      8. Buchan was a Scotsman on the make who became more English than the English. Psychically invested in the British empire, he experienced the early 20th century as a long siege, with mysterious enemies trying to destroy world he loved. This led to his seminal spy novels.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 10

      9. Buchan wrote many best-selling thrillers trying to make sense of a world where British empire was constantly being challenged by mysterious forces (the Huns, the natives, the Bolsheviks). The plot often reveals a conspiracy led by evil plutocrats, sometimes (((plutocrats)))

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 10

      10. Buchan's fingerprints are all over spy fiction: his 39 Steps (which featured a Jewish conspiracy) not only filmed by Hitchcock but also basis for classic Hitchcock narrative: the man unknowingly caught in plot he doesn't understand and going on the run to escape

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 10

      11. Beyond giving Hitchcock his basic plot, Buchan's books also created the James Bond villain as we known them: the plutocrat who seeks world destruction: Goldfinger, Blofeld etc are descended from Buchan's plutocrats -- who, in his fiction often explicitly Jewish.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 10

      12. After World War II, James Buchan fell out of fashion because his books were incredibly antisemitic and racist (lots of stuff about how childlike Natives need strong British hand to rule). His recuperation came, strangely, from Gertrude Himmelfarb, doyen of neoconservatism

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 10

      13. In 1961, writing in Encounter (then covertly funded by the CIA & edited by her husband Irving Kristol) Himmelfarb wrote a long essay arguing for the value of Buchan's work & saying his novels about global Jewish conspiracies were not so bad (just "casual" antisemitism)pic.twitter.com/KL1x9dazYm

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 10

      14. Himmelfarb's essay (as Christopher Ricks noted long ago) only makes sense in light of Encounter's cold war mission. Encounter was trying to win over British literary & aristocratic culture to American empire. Hence Himmelfarb, a distinguished US historian, celebrating Buchan

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 10

      15. Himmelfarb's whole point is that Buchan's clubby antisemitism and belief in white racial superiority were in context of orderly traditional society so not like the bad antisemitism & racism of vulgarians like Hitler.pic.twitter.com/5gBEDx5X0c

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 10

      16. Himmelfarb's celebration of Buchan is symptomatic of how & why he remains a formative culture figure (despite rampant bigotry in his work): he's the great bard of Empire & its anxieties: celebrating the daring do of a ruling class beset by hidden enemies.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 10

          17. Himmelfarb wasn't only right-wing on right to see Buchan as an essential bulwark of traditionalism. Recently an alt-right body building journal has started serializing The 39 Steps.pic.twitter.com/zDRLAQrvoQ

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 10

          18. The fingerprints of John Buchan are all over The King's Man: the aristocratic heroes, the empire under threat, the hidden conspiracy by those trying to wreck civilization as led by the British (led, significantly, by a vengeful Scot & then a Jew).

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 10

          19. There's one other aspect of Buchan: he turned to thrillers as a consolation for decline of empire both to scapegoat (the hidden conspiracies) but also as consolation (Britain might be outgunned by other great powers but could still produce top notch spies).

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 10

          20. The idea that spying would save Britain as a world power, that Britain could "punch above its weight" by spying, is the hidden consolation of the thriller. Buchan started it but it runs through Bond & even (in much more sophisticated & ironic form) Greene & le Carré

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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 10

          21. So let's put this together: we have Matthew Vaughn (son of Man From UNCLE & aristo scoundrel) making film that is Buchan Redux: dashing aristos form private spy agency so UK can punch above weight & thwart Scottish/Jewish world conspiracy to destroy civilization/empire

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        7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 10

          22. The Scottish theme, which I've touched on tangentially, is also important. In fiction, Buchan distinguished between good minorities (Scots like himself who served King, the odd good Jew or good native) from bad (anti-empire nationalists).

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        8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 10

          23. In The King's Man the leader of the world conspiracy is first a Scottish nationalist & then an Austrian Jew: not an accident since both are types that are seen to threaten order of empire. But also echo of Buchan's divided self as good Scot (versus the bad ones)

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        9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 10

          24. For much more along this line -- on the origins of English spy fiction & the way King's Man refurbishes aristocratic antisemitism -- I've done a podcast with @bellye66 & @RobinGanev that lays it all out:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/the-kings-man-and-antisemitism-in?r=bh54&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email …

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        1. Vance Lehmkuhl‏Verified account @V4Veg Mar 10
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          I know, you'd think "daring" would be involved, but it's "derring-do."

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