Star Wars is about the battle against fascism.
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Which is indeed why the Imperial officers all wore Hugo Boss nazi uniforms.
George Lucas did also say at one point that he based the red and green laser fire of the Imperial and Rebel forces on the tracers being fired by the US and Viet Cong, which was an iconic bit of imagery that was widely televised. Also:
However, when Lucas sat down with director James Cameron in 2018, he revealed how the Empire was also meant to resemble America — particularly the way it prosecuted the Vietnam War. Cameron pointed out how the Rebels are a small group using asymmetric warfare against a highly organized Empire. Today, Cameron added, the Rebels would be called terrorists. "When I did it," Lucas replied, "they were Viet Cong."
In other words, Lucas viewed the Vietnamese as the rebels and America as the invading villains. He further explained that Star Wars was a "vessel" in which to place his worldview that the United States had become an empire during the Vietnam War, doomed to fail like every empire before it. Cameron noted how those views carried over into the Star Wars prequel trilogy, especially in Padmé's line, "This is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause." Lucas replied, "We're in the middle of it right now," referring to the country's political state.
(Via.)
he followed up to simultaneously say he was joking while also doubling down 🤦
Lol, he's literally doing the "I was just pretending" comic.
i like this version
https://xcancel.com/theronster/status/1919491001296552311#m
He trebled down a year later. I think he is actually trying to be ironic in his bio. But he's still just an idiot.
Wow what a fuckin ass.
I actually thought he was being ironic. I thought, someone who was actually engaging with the allegory enough to acknowledge the correct answer and so quickly—this couldn't have been their first time thinking about it.
This second reply is very confusing if that's true, though.
Sure Aaron... You were being "Ironic"...
Close to kind of getting it - Lucas has compared the empire in Star Wars to both the American empire during the Vietnam War, and the British empire during the American Revolution.
And drew inspiration from Nazi Germany when conceptualizing the Empire.
That second one doesn't make sense unless Leia owned a ton of slaves
lolwut?
Inserted a comma in case it was confusing.
i think they said the second one doesn't make sense unless princess Leia owned a ton of slaves.
princess Leia owned a ton of slaves.
You mean "droids"?
Hence why the droids weren't allowed in a rural areas cantina.
War is politics
"Noooo, war in entertainment media should be good guys fighting bad guys!"
"Americans fighting middle easterners for example.
Non-political stuff like that."
By other means
Yep. Politics by other means is still politics.
People who consume sci-fi and fantasy thinking there should be no politics, don't understand the genre at all.
Can we really point to a single instance of a good sci-fi/fantasy that doesn't touch on politics/societal commentary at all?
I doubt it.
I'm waiting for someone to say that Babylon 5 never got "political"
Once I realised it was Twitter, it all makes sense. It's a hellsite let it die.
Yeah who tf is still scrolling that shit unless they're thumbs can't unclick the dumbass X icon on their phone
Besides of the "Wars", it also has a lot of explicit politics, it's just the Intergalactic Empire isn't being controlled by the National Socialist Sith Party.
I wonder why BioWare was pressured to cut out so much of Juhani’s content in KOTOR. I don’t think that was a BioWare decision - Jade Empire and Mass Effect both had lesbians. I’m not really willing to give George Lucas rainbow a lot of rainbow points.
If Finn and Poe’s chemistry had been allowed to blossom naturally, I think the sequels would have been much better. The attempted “theme” of “it doesn’t matter where you come from, you can shape your own destiny” just would be so much better if the story had been about Finn’s growth and reconciliation with his past work for the First Order. Then you don’t have Rose (and the subsequent ridiculous internet harassment that poor actress received) and the aborted character/subplot.
You can even do Palpatine returning, just have it be more like the Thrawn clone shit. Less Jedi stuff, more people stuff. You’re even copying the structure of the original trilogy that way - Rey is off doing her Jedi training stuff, while Poe and Finn are on related adventures that lead them to growing closer and closer.
Like I’m 99% sure the actors for both characters have even said that they agreed with the fact that those characters were needing each other.
I'm not denying that Finn and Poe had an interesting chemistry, I just think that Poe should have stayed dead.
The lingering question of what could have been would have been a way to deepen Finn's character.
And if you want to keep the actor, well. When Poe comes in to land after rescuing Finn and the group, his first words to Poe are "why are you wearing my brother's coat?"
And now you have another interesting character dynamic to explore.
The author of the novelization confirmed it was originally supposed to be Rey and Finn, but I think everyone can agree that FinnxPoe and ReyxKickingKyloInTheBalls is what should have happened.
Personally I think ReyxFinnxPoe was a pretty natural evolution but Disney would never have had the balls for it.
Wars are political in nature, it doesn’t even need to get to this shallow of a depth
"War is a mere continuation of politics by other means" -Carl von Clausewitz
A phrase I hate mostly because I have trouble finding a reason it's wrong.
That might be because it's right: War is an instrument of politics just as taxation, law enforcement, welfare, or diplomacy. They are each employed to achieve political goals.
To a politician that should sound darn obvious because political goals is all they think about, it's the generals and soldiers that need to be reminded of it because it influences the way war is fought, can be fought. As an example, in that rough section of the book (it's been a while) Clausewitz goes on to explain how total war is impossible: For a people to have the will to fight they have to fight for something, and if there's nothing to fight for, no civil life, no tradition, no nothing, only war, there is no will, any more. If fascists would read and understand him they'd realise why their politics, "war for war's sake", are inherently self-destructive. Difference between Stauffenberg and say Goering.
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