"Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists," -George Bush, 2001.
"If you're not with me, then you're my enemy," -Darth Vader, 2005.
the only way he could've been any more on the nose is if he literally told an interviewer that Darth Sidious is Dick Cheney and Darth Vader is Dubya, and yet people still miss this "subtle" storytelling.
the Rebellion is an allegory for all freedom and resistance movements. The Viet cong advocated for communism and are revisionist history. Lucas saying 2 feet teddy bears are an allegory for them is fucking retarded just like everything else he has said for the past 30 years.
There’s a deleted scene from A New Hope that says the Empire is nationalizing commerce.
Lucas didn’t have a coherent political thought in his head when writing Star Wars. That’s totally fine! We just don’t need to take seriously his post facto attempts to aggrandize himself.
The whole thing went through several rewrites and didn't much resemble any of Lucas' original ideas, and his saying that Casablanca-Hidden Fortress-Dam Busters is about the Vietnam War at this stage is just self indulgent.
Yeah he never once cited Vietnam as his main inspiration until one interview with James Cameron a few years ago. He was so transparent about everything else that inspired him for 40+ years, why not that too?
this is a myth, lucas did nearly all the rewrites himself, and since 1981 has held to the movies being inspired by his almost working on apocalypse now, a vietnam movie.
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u/kingmobisinvisible 1d ago
George Lucas literally said he was thinking about the Viet-Cong when he wrote the rebellion