It was never a Vietnam allegory. There are no story beats that match any moment of the Vietnam War. Lucas just wanted to sound intellectual, like he didn't just write pew pew space lasers.
The bit where a load of civilians take up arms to fight with a group of practiced guerrilla fighters that George Lucas compared to the Viet Cong to fight off an occupying genocidal force that massively outgins them through the use of improvised weapons, ambushes and booby traps on a jungle planet in a film released just a few years after the end of the Vietnam War seems pretty familiar
Yes, the big fascist empire mass murdering both civilians and Viet Cong-like rebels is nothing like the big fascist American empire mass murdering both civilians and Viet Cong rebels in Vietnam. The guerilla tactics and spike traps on Endor used to defeat superior arms were nothing like the guerilla tactics and spike traps used in Vietnam to defeat superior arms. Nor was Lucas an avid, outspoken opponent of the Vietnam war and Reagan, nor do his colleagues back up that story with evidenced details, nor did Lucas spend multiple years working on Apocalypse Now.
my scifi vietnam war allegory went woke
It was never a Vietnam allegory. There are no story beats that match any moment of the Vietnam War. Lucas just wanted to sound intellectual, like he didn't just write pew pew space lasers.
right because a movie reflecting the surrounding zeitgeist is such a radical concept
The bit where a load of civilians take up arms to fight with a group of practiced guerrilla fighters that George Lucas compared to the Viet Cong to fight off an occupying genocidal force that massively outgins them through the use of improvised weapons, ambushes and booby traps on a jungle planet in a film released just a few years after the end of the Vietnam War seems pretty familiar
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Yes, the big fascist empire mass murdering both civilians and Viet Cong-like rebels is nothing like the big fascist American empire mass murdering both civilians and Viet Cong rebels in Vietnam. The guerilla tactics and spike traps on Endor used to defeat superior arms were nothing like the guerilla tactics and spike traps used in Vietnam to defeat superior arms. Nor was Lucas an avid, outspoken opponent of the Vietnam war and Reagan, nor do his colleagues back up that story with evidenced details, nor did Lucas spend multiple years working on Apocalypse Now.
Those were aaall just coinkydinks.
Don’t he have Vietnam war footage in the original cut of the film before the special effects were added?
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