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star wars is too woke i like the show about the socialist utopia rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 11 months ago by cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] dreugeworst@lemmy.ml 24 points 10 months ago

Even the empire's uniforms were pretty obviously based on nazi uniforms, what makes you think the empire is supposed to represent communism?

[-] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

George Lucas said Vietnam inspired the writing, and communism in American pop culture was synonymous with basically every "bad" thing.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

He said the Ewoks were inspired by the Viet Cong. Were the guerilla fighters fighting against the guerilla Empire?

[-] WldFyre@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

The empire was the US

[-] yum_burnt_toast@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago

is it a coincidence that vader is derived from the german word for father?

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

Is that the case? It's both written and pronounced differently

[-] yum_burnt_toast@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago

well i did say "derived from" and not "the exact same word" but as it turns out the connection to vater was a rumor george lucas himself started, likely to make originating vision for the series appear stronger and more planned. there is evidence that the name existed in the scripts before he was changed to be lukes father, so that does contradict the later assertion.

[-] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I'm not sure about Vader being more than a coincidence, but the roots of the word for "father" goes a lot further back than German. Linguists have traced it back through many cultures into prehistory. It's probably more ancient than we can ever discover. This blew my mind the other day.

https://youtu.be/BUIQAGqhSj0?si=qnmadJhGOjcRM8G3