George Lucas: “America is the empire and the rebels are the Vietcong. Anakin is George Bush. The leader of the evil corporation is named after Newt Gingrich. The evil corporation invades a small democracy for plasma (space oil)”
Chuds: “I sleep”
TLJ: “woman”
Chuds: foaming “YOU MADE IT POLITICAL YOU DAMN LIBERALS!”
The man tries to be on the side of the angels, god bless 'im, but while it’s clear politics were one more source to draw from in world building, he was not making any particularly coherent political argument, even in the PT; it all just more or less jibes with the worldview of a left-leaning Californian boomer.
George Lucas: “America is the empire and the rebels are the Vietcong. Anakin is George Bush. The leader of the evil corporation is named after Newt Gingrich. The evil corporation invades a small democracy for plasma (space oil)”
Chuds: “I sleep”
TLJ: “woman”
Chuds: foaming “YOU MADE IT POLITICAL YOU DAMN LIBERALS!”
Also George Lucas: “Alright, so the Empire is literally the Nazi regime.”
Also George Lucas, Nationalizing private enterprise is bad, m’kay?
The man tries to be on the side of the angels, god bless 'im, but while it’s clear politics were one more source to draw from in world building, he was not making any particularly coherent political argument, even in the PT; it all just more or less jibes with the worldview of a left-leaning Californian boomer.
Lucas is a less a political philosopher, and more into remixing. The imagery and the themed work.
Man was not subtle