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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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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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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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 …Show this thread
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Excellent thread- and the excusing of casual upper class antisemitism can be seen in the silence about Boris Johnson's novel which reproduces so many of the Buchanian tropes you identify -see eghttps://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/1204371273675132928?s=20&t=pZuVQKWOUjKSuK8g4GSS2w …
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Saw first the Kingsmen movie, and (spoilers) understood it was trying to do a lot with British class system—and there was a supposed twist involving Michael Cain being _secretly_ from a working class background that I could not get my head around. Does that tie in to all this?
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