The producers and writers are free to portray the villainous "westerners" in any grotesque evil way their twisted imaginations come up with, often times you'll have some guy or girl who's like the brother in the film, a loyal servant who has second thoughts about whether what master is doing is right, usually either a soldier, a servant, an informer, maybe even the boss's own children usually the daughter, he or she is pushed to the edge when they witness atrocities or if their relative joins the communist party, in the middle of the films there's rising conflict, war, sedition, innocent people dying and in the end the communists, the people united under the red banner overcome, sometimes with help from the sympathizer and they live on in the revolution.
All and all, there is little creativity, little value in commie films. To compare the Star wars saga with something like this trite is like, well you may as well compare star wars with Howard the Duck! That's how bad it is.
Communists and also fascists are basically ignorant, uneducated stupid and misled and possess little talent or ability. This is why they join. Remember that the CCCP and Occupy wall street and Antifa is almost made up of the flotsam and jetsam of society. People like Moldylocks for instance, People who are hard to consider people. They're degenerates, addicts, low IQ, mentally ill, violent, credulous, brute beasts, its not that they don't want to work, its that they're unemployable.
over a hundred years ago, before unions, before communism, these people had a place to go, they worked at farms, workshops ETC, they made clothespins, matches, they lived in Bungalows, they get paid, then they go to town and got drunk or high and went home.
So no. I doubt Lucas got his ideas from the reds. Star Wars seems to be based more on Eastern religion which the commies tended to eschew and on history among other things.
Oh, I agree that the NVA films are way over the top, and have very little value, as does the communist bit. Oh, and also the communists and like-minded groups being made up of the trash of society as well.
However, even though I really do wish that Lucas didn’t base the Rebels on the Vietcong... well, Lucas more than made it clear that he did with this: https://otnesse.tumblr.com/post/162081709399/this-is-from-george-lucas-1973-notes-for-star (and yes, those are my screencaps. I took screencaps of the necessary pages in case anyone doubted my claims about Lucas basing the Rebels on the Vietcong since 1973. The book was The Making of Star Wars, and you can find it on pages 16-17).
That, and his commentary for Return of the Jedi (either that, or Empire of Dreams) made the fact that the Ewoks based on the Vietcong and the Empire on America a bit too explicit (that’s also why I’m no longer a Rebel supporter but rather an Empire supporter, especially when I don’t like to be tricked into rooting for Communists and would never knowingly do so.).