![]() ![]() Star Wars was a trailblazer for the kind of monumentalist pastiche which has become standard in a homogeneous Hollywood blockbuster culture that, perhaps more than any other film, Star Wars played a role in inventing. In terms of the film itself, there was nothing much very new about Star Wars. The rebel group were the North Vietnamese, and the Empire was the US.” Of course, by the time the film was ideologically exploited by Ronald Reagan, everything had been inverted: now it was the US who were the plucky rebels, standing up to the “ evil empire“ of the Soviets. Star Wars was Lucas’s “transubstantiated version of Apocalypse Now. According to Walter Murch, the editor of Apocalypse Now, Lucas had wanted to make Apocalypse Now but had been persuaded it was too controversial, so he decided to “put the essence of the story in outer space and make it in a galaxy long ago and far, far away”. ![]()
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