I am confused. A$$hole George Lucas and the Disney jerkoffs keep changing the meaning and symbolism behind the Empire.
I once read that Lucas drew inspiration from the Soviet Union to draw up the Empire. Now, I read this, “In fact, Star Wars creator George Lucas even refers to the Imperial officers in The Empire Strikes Back as “Nazis†while giving his commentary of the film. He specifically mentions their militaristic dress, noting, “The Nazis are basically the same costume as we used in the first film and they are designed to be very authoritarian, very empire-like.â€
Source: http://www.starwars.com/news/from-world-war-to-star-wars-imperial-officers
This garbage article here and now insinuates that the Empire was inspired by the 1970’s era US Government and Military, and the Rebel Alliance was inspired by the Viet Cong.
I am fed up with the fact that these Disney and Lucas worshiping idiots cannot keep their lies and BS straight.
Lucas is a known liar - almost pathological.
He has said several times that he had the idea for a trilogy, with all the basic plot components of Vader being Luke's father, in mind when he shot the original in 1976. In fact, he has said this on camera. In other interviews, he has said the opposite. Then he wrote a letter to the makers of the "The Matrix" trilogy that he had no idea that he would make Vader the father of Luke - he just made it up later.
The guy makes some interesting stuff, but the last 3 movies were pretty bad - that's why the parodies are so hilarious.
He also is a strident atheist, and political leftist.
Unfortunately, the bit about the Empire being based on 1970s American politics and the Vietnam War WAS in fact what Lucas had in mind all along. Don’t believe me? Just look at these scans from my JW Rinzler Making of Star Wars book:
https://otnesse.tumblr.com/post/162081709399/this-is-from-george-lucas-1973-notes-for-star
I’m not happy about it either, but it is what it is. And besides, considering his ilk often conflated Nazis with American conservatives, don’t be surprised if he was trying to associate the two when in reality the Nazis were a lot closer ideologically to the hippie movement he belonged to.