@silbasa
@Violet Rose in The Rain
@Background Human
I’m against politics done stupidly or in a overly preachy manner with hostility. That’s what a lot of progressive politics is right now. Call to action can work but they have to have
some goodwill at least and should be done with care if it is something that a franchise normally does not have. I can completely enjoy politics, heck, even leftish ones, in media. I think with a lot of people when they mean no politics they mean that type of half baked positioning and such being pushed by the corporate world in an attempt to pander the academic classes and certain forces on social media.
@DarkObsidian
The Last Jedi I’d argue did try a feminist theme (not bad in itself, but how it did it was stupid) and Rose whining about war and the rich or something. Otherwise, no. What little half realized political themes or diverse casting choices had no effect on my enjoyment of those films. Rather the fact that they simply weren’t planned out well and wasted a lot of opportunities.
I guess close this post with a little political Star Wars fact. If Wookipedia’s
citation here is to be believed (and I have heard this told before).
Chris Taylor. How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise. New York, New York, USA: Basic Books, 2014–2015. Pp. 300–301. “Anyone sitting down to write a screenplay on November 1, 1994, as Lucas apparently did, would have been interrupted eight days into the writing process by one of the most seismic midterm in postwar American history. Republicans took the House and the Senate for the first time in 40 years. A resurgent GOP under House Speaker Newt Gingrich started pushing its tax-cutting, regulation-slashing ‘Contract with America.’ Democrats, whose messaging had improved since Ted Kennedy’s ‘Star Wars’ flub, started calling it a ‘Contract On America.
“It was perhaps no coincidence, then, that Lucas started writing about a ‘Trade Federation,’ aided and emboldened by corrupt politicians, embroiled in some sort of dispute over the taxing of trade to the outlying star systems. We never learn what the dispute is about – whether the Trade Federation was pro- or anti-tax. But what we know is that the name of the leader of the Trade Federation – never actually spoken in the movie, but noted in the script from the start – was Nute Gunray. By 1997, when the GOP Senate leader was Trent Lott, Lucas named the Trade Federation’s representative in the Galactic Senate: Lott Dodd. We’re a long way from the subtlety of [George Lucas’s] [North] Vietnam metaphor here.”