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Lucas also included in his many visual and storytelling appropriations in Star Wars a straight up remake of WWII movie dogfights, including shots lifted directly from The Dam Busters (1955) for the climax of his space opera, as chronicled in this video below. Thus enter the faceless hive-like villains of the saga, Stormtroopers who were somehow more all-white than the Third Reich’s supposed Aryan race, and named after a literal branch of “shock troops” utilized by the German army, albeit during World War I. “The version that those of us who grew up in the ‘40s and ‘50s had when there was a strong sense of good and evil because of World War II.”
“ is the more old-fashioned version of good and evil,” Lucas explained. evil that Lucas intended to rekindle in audiences beaten down by the weariness of the present, and films as cynical as Network (1976) or Coppola’s own The Conversation (1974). I was inundated by these war things.” Hence when he decided to make a commercial adventure story that recaptured the innocence of that youth-supposedly because Francis Ford Coppola dared him to do it-it was this self-image of good vs.
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It was on all the coffee tables in the form of books, and on TV with things like Victory at Sea.
Recalling his own childhood, Lucas once said, “I loved the war.
And the American films that remembered those own dark days likewise reached to contextualize it in the most black and white manner possible. kid of his generation, he was reared on the movies and adventure stories of World War II, which reinforced the idea of the “Just War” and the “Good Fight.”įor surely if there was ever a justified conflict, it was against the fascists of the early 20th century responsible for the holocaust and lighting the globe on fire, from Europe all the way to the South Pacific. Lucas has made no qualms that his space opera was an eager return to the serials and movies of his youth, and not just of the science fiction variety either. This nightmare also occurred concurrently with the slow and steady drip, drip, drip of wasted American life from our laborious exit out of the Vietnam War, which didn’t fully conclude until ’75.Ĭoupled with the political assassinations of the previous decade, hyperinflation occurring in the present, and the unexpected Iran Crisis just around the corner, Star Wars was not a product of a happier age it was an antidote to a myriad of miseries. Instantly, distrust in American institutions became permanently baked into the national psyche. president had resigned and needed to be pardoned by his successor in order to escape prosecution. By the time America had regained its vision, a U.S. It had been less than four years since The Washington Post shined a blinding light on the Nixon administration’s Watergate scandal cover-up. In 1977, cynicism and anger was as ingratiated in the American culture that surrounded George Lucas as the disco music that drowned out his AM radio. To be clear, the original Star Wars did not come out in a simpler time, how ever much fans might like to remember it as such.
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