• Dessalines
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    1220 days ago

    It’s so funny that george lucas was like: “the rebels are the vietnamese communists, and the empire is the USA (its soldiers the storm troopers)” and somehow a lot of modern star wars fans are extremely pro-US, and never connect the dots.

    IMO the biggest critique of star wars, its that lucas didn’t focus at all on the lives of the stormtruppen, and force its audience in the imperial core to look in the mirror, at their values, their chauvinist culture, their pro-war ideology and news media.

    Still gotta keep blaming the rebels for all the world’s problems.

    • @eatCasserole
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      419 days ago

      That’s true, the storm troopers and stuff are basically presented as automatons. I guess some audiences like not having to think, but it would have been much more impactful to show them as people with their own beliefs and motivations and stuff.

      • @[email protected]
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        319 days ago

        There’s a lot of short stories about that in various books, though they tend to overuse both the tropes of banality of evil and the cackling evil maniacs.

        • @eatCasserole
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          319 days ago

          Oh interesting, I’ve never really delved past the movies.

          They did also choose to humanize a storm trooper with Finn in the new films, but I don’t remember him going through any “deprogramming” or anything, he just kinda realizes he’s a nice guy one day.

          It would have been much more interesting to see him struggle with his changing worldview.

          • @[email protected]
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            319 days ago

            From recent books, short stories anthology “From a Certain Point of View” have some quite good ones, can recommend.

            • @eatCasserole
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              319 days ago

              Well, I am always looking for book recommendations… I’ll put this on my list 🙂