Why single out these two franchises, when what you say is true of almost any Hollywood production; TV, movie, music or even Broadway?
I gave up a lot of this as an adult conservatives, but will still watch action, adventure and sci-fi flicks.
As far as Lucas’s “desire” for his films, we don’t have to accept it. I think of the Rebellion as the American Patriots, and the Empire as King George III’s forces.
But even so, both are far-fetched. It’s just a story (young orphan takes on world, find source of his early beginnings were based on betrayal, defeats betrayers while rescuing his father) as old as the Greek dramas.
Wasn’t always like that. I can definitely cite how Disney movies made by the man himself definitely had no leftist elements, at least, none actually added in by the writers for the movies (Bambi you could argue had some more environmentalist themes, but then again, that was in the original book as well, same goes for Robin Hood which was derived more from the Joseph Ritson version.). In fact, probably the first instance I can think of where Disney DID in fact add in any left-wing stuff to any adaptations it made that wasn’t already in the original source was with Beauty and the Beast in 1991 which got massively rewritten to push a left-wing feminist screed. Maybe the Rescuers since the United Nations factored heavily into that movie’s plot, when such wasn’t implied in the original book, not sure.
As far as Lucas, unfortunately, I do have to, especially when, since he’s the creator, our views on what it means meant absolutely nothing since we never created it. As a case in point, I thought of Big Boss from Metal Gear as being more of a George Washington type, or at the very least a Thomas Jefferson type, was even painted as such via Solidus’s admiration for both Big Boss and George Washington, yet come Peace Walker, he’s spouting fanboyish worship for leftist icon Che Guevara alongside Miller, despite such being extremely out of character for them even in that game, let alone past depictions of them.