rocket_dragon

“Imperial Core” is from Star Wars and sounds like a cringe LARP.

Was this theory developed after Star Wars was already released?

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Everything you said can be true, and it can also still sound like a cringe LARP.

That’s partially true, the Empire was based on inspiration from the US, Nazi Germany, and USSR. The rebels are of course the Viet Cong.

No critical analysis of Star Wars has happened in this thread yet.

Return of the Jedi special edition commentary.

Believe it or not, Lucas is capable of finding both positives and negatives about both the US and the USSR.

Most of the aesthetic of Empire architecture is inspired by brutalist Soviet architecture, and ceremony for the Emperor’s arrival was inspired by October Revolution Day military parades.

The USSR was also a fascist dictatorship, the actual bureaucratic structure of the Galactic Empire much more closely resembles the USSR.

Edit: good points were made, it’s overly reductive to call the USSR a facist dictatorship

The Viet Cong are not the only rebels to have ever existed, the USSR is well known to use excessive military force against its own rebels.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Soviet_Union

Very convenient of you to mentally gymnastics the explanation of how it’s my fault that other people cannot engage in critical media analysis.