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Anon gets to the bottom of World War Two (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Many major Star Wars main trilogy and prequel plotlines have real-world analogues.

Main trilogy plot line: French Resistance
Prequel plot line: Hitler's rise to power
Palpatine gaining emergency powers from the Senate: Reichstag Fire Decree
Dissolving the Old Republic and forming an empire: First French Empire, Augustus's rise to power as Roman emperor

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Lucas is on record saying the OT was about the Vietnam war (in an interview he did with James Cameron I think)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I thought that was very specifically referring to the ground battle on Endor in RotJ, not the whole trilogy.

In other sources he says it's a nod to WW2 (the trench run inspired by the Dam Busters, etc.) with imperial visual elements directly lifted from WW2 German designs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You might be right yeh, I’ve only seen a clip of it

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