george lucas literally set up return of the jedi to be an allegory of/protest against the Vietnam War
revenge of the sith
was so anti-Bush (Anakin even paraphrases a Bush line at one point) that people boycotted it
emperor palpatine was very deliberately based on Nixon
lucas later went on to compare Bush to Darth Vader and Dick Cheney to Palpatine, plus he’ll talk at any given opportunity about how political he wanted the prequels to be
but please, keep talking about how ‘the sjws’ have ‘destroyed star wars’ by bringing politics into it
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In one scene, Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader tells his onetime mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, “If you’re not with me, you’re my enemy.” The line is seen as a reference to Bush’s post-Sept. 11 threat “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” “ (source)
“Josh Griffin, a self-described “conservative Star Wars fan,” says he cringed when he heard the dialogue at a recent advance screening of Sith. “Star Wars is meant to be a children’s movie … not to be a political statement about someone’s liberal ideology.”
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………dude.