Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise

• burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  a new hope is world war 2 in space, down to the look of weapons, turrets on the millennium falcon and death star, and the name of the faceless bad guy army. and even after that, return of the jedi is the vietnam war in space. and even after that, the prequels are all about fascist america in space! you can have palpatine say something stupid and obviously evil and immediately cut to someone from the Bush administration saying literally the same thing.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The original trilogy is all about Vietnam, weird take to call it WW2 but you got the spirit.

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    • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The way starfighter combat works is definitely WW2. There’s some hand wavy explanations in-universe for why it works that way, but it clearly comes from WW2 fighter and bomber turret footage.

      Politically, the empire is pretty clearly Nazi-coded, but I don’t think Lucas ever had more than a surface level understanding of fascism.

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Sure, but it’s not about WW2. Anti-fascism, sure

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    • Havoc8154@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s both, people don’t draw inspiration from just one thing. It’s also Hidden Fortress, but that doesn’t make the WW2 elements any less relevant. Star Wars is about the fight against fascism and imperialism in many forms.

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