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Watching Star Wars as a kid is LITERALLY one of many reasons I give a fuck as an adult.
I paid attention to the fucking story.
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That's so true.
My favorite example of this.
Hint: George Lucas has stated in the most plain-English unambiguous terms that the empire does in fact represent US imperialism in A New Hope. It's in a director chat interview thing with with James Cameron if you feel like searching it up.
Oh boy now I can add this to my “Americans being so far gone that they don’t realize a movie about US imperialism is a movie about US imperialism”. Almost like MAGA thinking Homelander is a celebration of Trump for 3 whole seasons before realizing it may actually he the opposite.
For people that say "don't make x media political" I think that almost all media is inherently political, your making a statement about something that has real world connotations and people are going to form an opinion from it.
I love this meme with stormtroopers, because instead of the guy in front being about to die he's in the safest possible place.
There was a bit of fan-lore I read a while back that the stormtroopers intentionally missed because Vader didn't want them to kill his kids.. really its because it would make for bad cinema if the NPCs killed the main characters 30 seconds into their first scenes...
It wasn't because of his kids, but as later explained (in expanded material) the Millenium Falcon had a tracking device installed soon after it was detained.
Otherwise, consider that the Death Star could've blown the freighter out of the sky the moment it exited the hanger with its thousands of Point Defenses.
It was pretty awesome when that Suicide Squad movie did it.
I was just thinking of the ex-gf who didn’t believe Star Wars was about Vietnam. I should add that to the list of reasons for the break up.
Never date a centrist. If they’re not a militant leftist, don’t bother kids. 😂
Not good thoughts, not good thoughts by the way. Thinking about the writing group I dropped because “that’s always been my thing”.
disagreed. my wife, when we met, was right wing. but also very smart. also very empathetic. not very politically aware.
we were friends for a decade. dated for a bit. got married. talked politics for a few years. i asked a few pointed questions over the years. in 2015, agent krasnov's response to the attacks in Paris in November of that year were enough for her to leave the republican party, without any of my prompting. dear gods i love that woman. i remember, the responses were all about him being right about some bullshit and nothing about calming and unifying people. nothing what a politician is supposed to do.
nowadays, yeah, never date anyone more right than Rick Allen.
The story goes that George Lucas was supposed to direct Apocalypse Now, but the studio didn't like that he was gonna make it a 35mm black and white documentary instead of a blockbuster movie, so he said he'd make his own Vietnam war movie...with spaceships, and lasers!
I'll direct my own movie! With blackjack and hookers!
And eventually he really did.
I thought that was lady gaga on the far right
I don't think that's a George Lucas work.
he just did space chess and, uh, what are those women in cages called. gogo dancers?
And unlike the original Star Wars film, which made the parallels to the Vietnam War paint the US in a bad light, the latest Star Wars film riffs off the helicopter scene from Apocalypse Now!, but instead of presenting napalming the shit out of people as a bad thing, presents it as a good thing.
Which film?
TMAG
I had to look that up, "The Mandalorian and Grogu" is the name of the film for anyone else curious. I guess they learned all the wrong lessons from the success of The Mandalorian.
Not the Delorean and Groggy!
does lil grogs at least eat eat everyone he spacenapalms?
Glad to see a new spin on this meme format.
Too bad the stormtrooper on the right still missed.
Hot take:
The Galactic Empire is portrayed as bad mainly due to it's execution of power. The Empire's ideals of order and stability don't actually seem so bad in theory. Even the Mandolorian spin-off show supports this perspective.
Whose order, stability for who? Order and stability are features of a system, not ideological beliefs. Pretty much everyone wants order and stability in the abstract, the problem is when the order is an extractive fascist police state that devastates planets and wipes out cultures so that the people perpetuating it can enjoy stability at everyone else's expense.
No. It's literally just space Nazi's.
Guys... There are STORMTROOPERS in the Empire. It's not subtle lol.
The comparisons to Nazi Germany were deliberate, as the Nazis were inspired by the US Empire. Lucas himself said it was a metaphor for the Vietnam war.
george lucas has stated very plainly it was about US imperialism in vietnam
george lucas literally said it in an interview that the empire is the us empire...
NO! THEY are the space nazis!
Space nazis of the US empire.
Just like Starship troopers are space nazis of the US empire to it's filmmaker.
Now excuse me while I cut off your hand.
Sorry, it's pretty clearly stated in this interview by Lucas.