Yeah it’s something that actually comes directly from the horse’s mouth, so to speak, and I myself only came across it in the last year or so. And given the way Lucas uses some fairly direct anti-imperial vocabulary, I’m honestly inclined to believe him when he says it’s not just a valid reading, but an intentional creative decision.
The original trilogy was more modelled after Vietnam.
Where the Vietnamese analogue were the good guys. If that’s not a political statement for a film made in America in the '70s, I dunno what is.
I don’t think I heard about that influence or perspective, but I can absolutely see it
Yeah it’s something that actually comes directly from the horse’s mouth, so to speak, and I myself only came across it in the last year or so. And given the way Lucas uses some fairly direct anti-imperial vocabulary, I’m honestly inclined to believe him when he says it’s not just a valid reading, but an intentional creative decision.