• jollyrogue ( jollyrogue@lemmy.ml ) 
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    2 months ago

    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”.

  • BigLime ( BigLime@lemmy.ml ) English
    17·
    2 months ago

    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!

  • Azrael ( Azrael@reddthat.com ) 
    1·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • RiverRock ( RiverRock@lemmy.ml ) 
      4·
      2 months ago

      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.