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Great Princess Story: The New Pornographers song-by-song discussion #109

Great Princess Story: The New Pornographers song-by-song discussion #109

New album’s been out for a while, so time to fire up the song-by-song ratings for this one!

“Great Princess Story” is track 1 — the first song — on The New Pornographers’s most recent album, The Former Site Of.

Here's a link to the song.

  • How do you feel about “Great Princess Story”?
  • Any favorite lyrics?

How would you rate it out of 10?
1 is terrible, 10 is amazing (decimals allowed, not required)

Note: Comments that don’t include a number vote won’t be factored in. Scores higher than 10 will be counted as a 10.

I'll close the poll in about a week.

Results

Great Princes Story: in progress

All New Pornographers song-by-song results

u/Fake_Eleanor — 2 days ago

Who, if anyone, is the closest real-world counterpart to the resistance leader Victor Laszlo, from the movie Casablanca?

Paul Henreid's character Victor Laszlo in Casablanca is portrayed as a Czechoslovakian resistance leader, but someone with connections to the leaders of resistance movements throughout Europe: Paris, Prague, Oslo, Athens, even Berlin.

The Nazis in Casablanca consider him not just any resistance leader, but someone irreplaceable; the resistance could withstand the loss of other leaders, but not Laszlo. He's well-known enough to have "impressed half the world," suggesting he's not just successful but famous.

And of course he was imprisoned in a "concentration camp" for a year, and succeeded in escaping.

Obviously, he's a fictional character, but is the role itself based on any figure or combination of figures that actually existed in Europe in the late '30s-early '40s? Or is he as pure a concoction as the letters of transit that guarantee anyone can leave Casablanca without being detained by the police (or the Nazis)?

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u/Fake_Eleanor — 5 days ago