So I was reading Anne Frank's Diary the other day. I couldn't help but notice that it seemed she lived under the Soviet Union or Maoist China.
All of my poor friends tell me they hate their lives, and will never be happy. But if they lived in China, they would be even more hopeless. (I got this job because my father was one of the Chicago Boys.)
Taking pics of an empty supermarket in New Orleans and captioning it "Shopping for food under socialism"
Every single imperial officer is a white british guy in a Nazi uniform!
I thought having women and PoCs as Imperial officers and stormtroopers in more recent media wasn't a bad choice, per se, but I likely would not have done it.
Every single imperial officer is a white british guy in a Nazi uniform!
Libs: "so basically they're red fash"
Across the board, there hasn’t been an effort to expand roles for different demographics. It seems to be just hiring more minorities to play roles scriptwriters wrote for white millennial men, rather than writing scripts that tell stories for someone other than white millennial men.
I thought having women and PoCs as Imperial officers and stormtroopers in more recent media wasn't a bad choice, per se, but I likely would not have done it.
there was some very on the nose non- huMan shit in some of the books about admiral girlboss. i think you can cast women and PoC in those roles but you have to do some really funny 4-th wall kinda shit like literally get fox news's token minorities for the parts. bonus points if you can screw them financially while you're at it.
Brought to you by the same woman who said Squid Game is actually about communism
Yeah, the creator of the universe definitely doesn’t know what their intended theme was. This shit heel doing dogshit historical analysis in the OpEd section has a better understanding of the fictional universe created by someone else.
GeOrGe LuCaS cReAtEd ThE pReQuElS tHeReFoRe I dIsMisS eVeRyThInG hE sAyS oN sTaR wArS
-Some GenXer still screeching about the prequels
(I happen to like them lol)
I do this. Like unironically. Canon sucks, stories belong to the people, don't let anyone tell you that Disney's stories are more important than your stories because they paid some guy a billion dollars so they could profit from the stories instead of him.
Plus, Maria saved it in the edit. He didn't direct Empire or Jedi. Dude was probably the most important person behind the trilogy, but it was the combined work of hundreds or thousands of people and while it probably wouldn't have succeeded without George, it also couldn't have succeeded with just George. The prequels and the early seasons of the Clone Wars CGI show George's limits when he doesn't have collaborators to help him shore up his weaknesses. Apparently he actually asked a lot of people for help with the prequels but htey all said "Oh no I couldn't possibly, you are the auteur!".
Like you've got George Lucas, you've got Maria Lucas, you've got artists like Ralph MacQuarrie, you've got David Prowse and James Earl Jones coming together to create Vader, you've got Carrie Fischer being a badass and Mark Hamill being a dorky twink. A lot of people made Star Wars happen, a lot of people made creative decisions. That scene in Andor where the guy uses all the cool tricks to blow up the tractor beam? That's originally from one of Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy books from thirty years ago. Thrawn's Star Destroyer ambushes Luke and captures him with a tractor beam. He cold-launches a torpedo that is pulled in to hte tractor beam emitter. It blows up and he's able to fly away. It's used as a character moment for Thrawn; Everyone expects him to kill the tractor beam operator but instead he says "That was a good trick, remember it so they can't do it again" and we learn that Thrawn is ruthless, but also more of a people person than his peers.
Also, I do like one specific cut of the Prequels which combines 2 and 3 in to a single film. The stylistic choice I was most impressed with was removing almost all of the battle droid dialogue. Without the goofy comic relief dialogue they're quite sinister in a number of scenes.
Maybe go ask on the piracy comm or one of hte datahoarder subs? the silent battle droid was the hting that set it apart from other fan cuts, someone might recognize it.
I'm just stealing everything I come across that strikes my interest these days. too much has been lost.
Was always curious about the alleged 85 minute cut made by Topher Grace of all people, but I don't think that's ever been released publically
I really don’t mind them outside of some bad characters and meh acting. Podracing is dope.
I also appreciate the new movies as well. I have my gripes, but all in all they are entertaining. Also, I would be lying if I said that pissing of Star Wars purists didn’t make me happy.
She is correct, Stalin implemented the Rule of Two after his price pupil was assassinated by the rest of his apprentices, there can only be one Grand Spoon Wielder and their apprentice for this reason
And the next spoon wielder was Mao, which led Khrushchev to revisionism and sino-soviet split.
Believe it was Chapo that pointed out you gotta make the evil empire operators with tactical gear (ala Avatar) if you don't want people misunderstanding the parallel you're trying to draw.
George Lucas not only openly stated that his Rebels were the Viet Cong, but he also venerated the Soviet Union film system pretty recently for its freedom from commercialism, allowing more unconventional and creative films:
https://youtu.be/SWqvaMEFIdI?si=TLc4QLEQqsL0M_S7
In interviews around the release of The Force Awakens he said also said, "Of course, the only way you could really do that [make money] is not take chances. Only do something that’s proven. You gotta remember, Star Wars came from nowhere. American Graffiti came from nowhere. There was nothing like it. Now, if you do anything that’s not a sequel or not a TV series or doesn’t look like one, they won’t do it." He goes on to compare his selling of star wars to Disney, with selling his children to 'white slavers', which was a bit insensitive, but I suppose I'll allow the sentiment.
It's not, but this is
The Director Of “Squid Game” Says It’s About Capitalism, But It's Really More Like Communism
Same date, same read time
libs aren't alright folks
