[sharktrager]

This is a marketing ploy he learned in the 70's. Every film was an "allegory of our experience in Viet Nam". I have read many books and articles where directors and producers admitted it was just marketing BS.

My personal favorite was that "Bonnie and Clyde" was actually about Viet Nam.

[JakeWyld]

Yes, this did come off as though Lucas was trying to sell tickets while kissing the right butts in Hollywood.

[Borges]

My personal favorite was that "Bonnie and Clyde" was actually about Viet Nam.

It was certainly about the way the counterculture glamorized the outsider. A metaphor for it anyway. George Romero has admitted that 'Night of the Living Dead' was about what he saw as the chaos of the era. All those SF films of the 1950s were Cold War Parables even though people didn't think about it at the time.

[Starter]

I once wrote a paper in college about how "Aliens" was an anology for James Cameron's experiences in Vietnam.

Of course, I knew that Cameron was a truck driver at the time that I claimed he was incountry...

Got an A too.