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It seems like I read an article in which George Lucas is quoted as saying he modeled the rebels after the Viet Cong. Are you saying this is disputed?

I'm not saying anything was disputed. I'm saying that there was always politics of a sort in the movies and people always saw politics in the movies.

I don't think female warriors resonate with the 14 year old boy demographic, (which is supposedly the target audience for this sort of stuff) at least not in the way of "I want to be like her."

Is that the only way things resonate? I never wanted to be Luke Skywalker or Princess Leia or even Han Solo, but I still enjoyed the pictures. If enough things get blown up it hardly matters which good guy does it.

[rockrr]

I never wanted to be Princess Leia but there was a time when I wanted to butter her buns...

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Is that the only way things resonate? I never wanted to be Luke Skywalker or Princess Leia or even Han Solo, but I still enjoyed the pictures. If enough things get blown up it hardly matters which good guy does it.

Let us just say you have a rare intellect and that you don't fit the standard industry model of their target audience.

A lot of escapism is the desire to live vicariously through the exploits of people we imagine to be what we wished we were.