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[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 62 points 1 year ago

George Lucas: "America is the empire and the rebels are the Vietcong. Anakin is George Bush. The leader of the evil corporation is named after Newt Gingrich. The evil corporation invades a small democracy for plasma (space oil)"

Chuds: "I sleep"

TLJ: "woman"

Chuds: foaming "YOU MADE IT POLITICAL YOU DAMN LIBERALS!"

[-] Poggervania@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago

Also George Lucas: “Alright, so the Empire is literally the Nazi regime.”

[-] wjrii@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also George Lucas, Nationalizing private enterprise is bad, m'kay?

The man tries to be on the side of the angels, god bless 'im, but while it's clear politics were one more source to draw from in world building, he was not making any particularly coherent political argument, even in the PT; it all just more or less jibes with the worldview of a left-leaning Californian boomer.

[-] neptune@dmv.social 1 points 1 year ago

Lucas is a less a political philosopher, and more into remixing. The imagery and the themed work.

[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Man was not subtle

[-] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

some people are mad just because rey is a woman, some people are mad because rey is a badly written character. sexism vs common sense.

[-] rsh@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

War, by its very nature is political. Probably war could be defined as “violent political disagreement”.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

"War is the continuation of politics by other means." - Carl Von Clausewitz

[-] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

First time I can say I read the book in a random political discussion

[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Aggressive negotiations

[-] neptune@dmv.social 8 points 1 year ago

A lot of war movies don't really show the personal or political motivations for both sides. Some sure do. But a lot of them are almost more of man VS god or man VS nature in their plots.

In A New Hope, we watch a young man get radicalized. Han grapples with reasons to fight the whole trilogy. Etc

[-] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 year ago

Andor was so freaking good. It spoke straight to the soul of what Star Wars started out as. Lucas even said he modeled the rebels on the Viet Cong.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It took me so long to get through the first episode. I'm glad I powered through.

[-] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

No, star wars is about swish swish and pew pew!

[-] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Only a Sith deals in absolutes

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