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    7 months ago

    Many major Star Wars main trilogy and prequel plotlines have real-world analogues.

    • Main trilogy plot line: French Resistance
    • Prequel plot line: Hitler’s rise to power
    • Palpatine gaining emergency powers from the Senate: Reichstag Fire Decree
    • Dissolving the Old Republic and forming an empire: First French Empire, Augustus’s rise to power as Roman emperor
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      157 months ago

      Lucas is on record saying the OT was about the Vietnam war (in an interview he did with James Cameron I think)

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        107 months ago

        I thought that was very specifically referring to the ground battle on Endor in RotJ, not the whole trilogy.

        In other sources he says it’s a nod to WW2 (the trench run inspired by the Dam Busters, etc.) with imperial visual elements directly lifted from WW2 German designs

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        67 months ago

        I’d say you guys are missing the point or the big picture, but I knew what I was getting into. Nerd away, it’s cool.

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      7 months ago

      One of the episodes of Star Wars Visions was from a French animation studio and they very much emphasized that angle. It was great