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LOTR was a screed against both war and industrialization. Star Wars is pretty much solidly on the side of opposing facism. The Matrix was openly an LGBTQ meta
by gamblor956 4y ago
LOTR was a screed against both war and industrialization.
Star Wars is pretty much solidly on the side of opposing facism.
The Matrix was openly an LGBTQ metaphor (though now the Warhowski sisters claim it was specifically a trans metaphor).
Avatar, Dances with Wolves, and Star Trek IV strongly promoted ecological preservation ideologies.
- oneoff786 4y agoPeople don’t come out of LOTR and think “hey you know what’s bad? Industrialization.” They don’t come out of Star Wars thinking about fascism. They definitely don’t come out of the matrix thinking about LGBTQ issues. They come out thinking about killing orcs, killing storm troopers, and killing agents in slo motion.
- pixl97 4y agoI mean, maybe you didnt.
- oneoff786 4y agoI’m relatively confident 99%+ didn’t either
- dragontamer 4y agoStormtroopers are literally imperialist German soldiers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormtroopers_(Imperial_Germany) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormtroopers_(Imperial_Germ... Vader is German for father. The uniforms were largely based on Nazi uniforms. It's literally a story about defeating fascists using almost strictly German imagery, German names and so forth.
- oneoff786 4y agoSure. But it’s Star Wars is still about Jedi more than anything. The fascist take isn’t wrong but it’s not the primary take by a long shot.