• invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    That and how Lucas tried making anti imperialist art and when it was ravenously devoured by the status quo he just hammed it the fuck up and merchandised it to shit. Gotta respect the king of grift

    • OhWell [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah, Lucas loves to change his mind every few years and say off the wall WTF shit about what Star Wars was "originally intended to be". He'll never own to the fact the prequels were terrible and he's 100% responsible for all the shitty writing in those movies.

    • MotherOfZachHill [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      anti imperialist art

      Americans fighting space nazis is a sublimated narrative, in reality outside of those Hollywood delusions, America used WMDs

      • hazefoley [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I think the rebels were meant to be VietCong making the empire the americans. This of course was retconned in the sequels making the empire explicitly nazis

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        But Vietnamese fighting Americans isn't really. Before Star Wars, he made THX 1138 which was also very anti capitalist. There's a reason he's always complaining about American censors.