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Star Wars began life as George Lucas' treatment for Apocalypse Now, in which the Rebels were the PAVN and VC, which would make WWII entirely the wrong war for S

Star Wars began life as George Lucas' treatment for Apocalypse Now, in which the Rebels were the PAVN and VC, which would make WWII entirely the wrong war for SF creators to try and recreate...

Finnucane 3y ago
Maybe, but cinematically, most of the tropes Lucas used predate Vietnam. The actual movie is entirely constructed from nostalgia for movies before the 1960s.
- yifanl 3y ago
  Apocalypse Now is itself, a treatment of the Heart of Darkness published 1899.