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0 ups, 3mo
Maybe he made the film.just to make you THINK
0 ups, 7mo,
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Sad, because that's about half of what's good in Star Wars. I'd call it syncretism, or fanboy cultural appropriation.
1 up, 7mo,
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Orientalism was a problem in sci-fi long before George Lucas came along:
https://oxfordre.com/literature/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acrefore-9780190201098-e-924?d=%2F10.1093%2Facrefore%2F9780190201098.001.0001%2Facrefore-9780190201098-e-924&p=emailAASQZkl4pNj2Y
But Star Wars added interpreting someone else's culture through a Judeo-Christian lens; not to mention all those characters with Asian names played by white actors AKA yellowface.

By the way: the story that the original "Star Wars" (now called "A New Hope" apparently) most blatantly ripped off is a Japanese movie known as "The Hidden Fortress" in English. Yet that film is a straightforward historical drama with absolutely no weird religious content.
2 ups, 7mo
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Lucas also pillaged Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for his overarching world setup. It is, like many pieces of art, a congee made of copypasta.

And, yes, I take your point about the yellowface: it's bad. It would be nice if Lucas had done more to promote the work that he was copying (as Tarantino did).
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