In the first three episodes Ando Season 2 begins streaming on Disney+ on April 22, and one of the show’s many interlocking plots takes us to the agricultural planet Mina-Rau on the outer edge of Star Wars Galaxy, where a group of rebel soldiers pretend to be free machinery. The group includes Bix (Adria Arjona), a fugitive from Mina-Rau without the necessary paperwork. So when a group of Imperial soldiers arrive for an unannounced “supply census”, Bicks is worried.
“If they check the visa, that’s a problem,” she said.
“Look, they need grains,” a local farmer replied. “They know we need help, and they know that everyone is not legal. How hard they look and work – it’s been ten years since the last review, no one is happy.”
In the next episode, he will betray the rebels to the Empire, a reminder of how difficult it is to do the right thing in the face of authoritarian forces.
For Kempshall, AndoThe biggest innovation is the way it exposes the “grassroots elements of fascism.” We all know that Barabine is evil, but as the series clearly shows, it is the average people who are just doing their own work – feeding paperwork and executing security – that make this evil possible in the first place.
“These people will kick your door or enforce a change of law at 3 a.m.,” he said. “They are the real faces of the empire. It looks normal, mediocre, boring, and therefore frightening. It’s an increasingly oppressive reality.”
Star Wars emphasizes that the tradition of American imperialism can be traced back to its earliest times.
Before creating Star Wars, Lucas should guide Revelation Now For his friend, Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola. But after the film falls into hell, he withdraws from the Vietnam War environment, transfers it into space, turning the Viet Cong into a rebel alliance, a ragtag army of freedom fighters, an armed armed, genocidal empire.
That’s what makes it the final version of the movie.
“In the earliest draft Star WarsThe way Lucas’s intentions for the Empire were clear about how it betrayed the United States that had fallen into fascism. ” Kempshal said.
When Lucas returned to the Star Wars Galaxy after a 16-year break, he thought of a different metaphor. Released in 1999, George W. Bush became president for a full year “Star Wars: Episode 1” – Phantom Threat It is a fable of how democracies fall into dictatorship and willing to attribute power to a strong man, and everyone from Julius Caesar to Napoleon Bonaparte is similar. (Lucas’s obsession with trade tariffs at the time may have inadvertently predicted our current economic crisis.)
But the prequel is over The Revenge of the Sith (2005), Lucas turned his attention to President Bush. Close to the end of the film, a corrupt Anakin Skywalker turns to his old friend obi-wan kenobi and shouts, “If you don’t stay with me, you’re my enemy,” a boring reference to the Iraq War, immediately comparing with Bush’s 9/11 threat: “You’re either with us, with terrorists or with terrorists.”
After a poorly censored sequel, Lucas stepped back from Star Wars for decades before eventually selling the franchise to Disney. The company’s highly respected reboot, picking up Skywalker Saga after 30 years Return of the Jedi (1983). In 2015 Power awakeningthe remnants of the empire have been reformed to the first order, its Nazi quality is obvious, its rolling red flags and anger, yelling leaders.
For Kempshall, the reason for the transition to a more general Nazi metaphor has nothing to do with politics, but with modern cultural epochists.
“Vietnam is no longer the main pop culture touchstone,” he said. “The empire may therefore need to develop to spread a certain level of evil.”
Of course, the year before Donald Trump became president in 2015, but ten years later, the zeitgeist has changed again. Just like the early 2000s under Richard Nixon or Bush in the 1970s, the United States also leaned towards fascism. And, in a surprising form return, Star Wars reflects our political reality here.
