guys this is just insane, it’s a space adventure movie, it doesn’t have hard-to-detect political motifs. this is embarrassing
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Chris @ Heroes Peak
Most people can admit "I didn't understand the political messaging of Star Wars until I grew up" while others will strive to pretend that political messaging didn't exist so they can pretend they didn't miss anything.
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it's not even subtle about it.
You agree with Stancil
I started a conversation and then got rightly DUNKED in and now I'm sad!!!
Waahhh!!!!"
Your crusade against acknowledging that is kinda embarrassing.
That doesn't mean that is worth doing, or that the text lends itself to it.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/star-wars-1977
But some subtle allegories that went over everyone's heads at the time? Doubt it.
Nazis are bad, even in space. Fight Nazis.
Thats basically it, and it’s all more or less conveyed via visual signifiers and a smidge of dialogue.
The Empire needs to be bad so we don’t feel bad when they get ‘sploded.
And that’s fine. “Fascists are bad” is a fine message.
Its not a deeply political work because the bad guys are space nazis.
SW became a political work because there was room left for it.
No one was walking out of theaters of SW in 1977 thinking it was some deep reflection on American Empire
I mean, stormtroopers killed his family and he found their barbecued corpses?
Tbh I think in terms of the story its just a way to exit Owen and Beru. He literally never mentions them again.
Kinda the easiest way to do it expediently because you gotta keep this shit in 90 minutes.
Alrighty! Lets play with my new glowy sword and this ball thing!”
He literally shows more grief over Obi Wan dying and he had known him for like what…two or three days?
https://youtu.be/fv9Jq_mCJEo?si=bwVUcPiOm0tl-DOa
"It's Seven Samurai, it's Flash Gordon, it's... for the children so I can sell plushie toys toys, leave me alone you demanding nerds."
Oh also it's about Nazis, and Darth Vader was a lovestruck teenager."
Luke Skywalker: You fought in the Clone Wars?
Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Yes. I was once a Jedi knight, the same as your father. They told me I'd get a big parade when I got back from Coruscant. Instead, they spat on me.
Even the most hardened segregationist hold out either fought fascism or had a father that did.
American reactionaries at the time believed in democracy. Just, you know, racist democracy
Saying Nazis are bad is a political stance.
Making the bad guys authoritarian is a political stance against authoritarianism.
I wasn't alive in 1977, but it also had a supreme court case involving Nazis. I would say any topic with a supreme court case is political.
But anyways, does that mean you disagree with Will and it is political and just not "very" political?
Lmao