Ww2 footage mostly but that’s cause ww2 had aerial dogfights and the kinda vibe they were going for with the space combat. Plane footage from Vietnam is just carpet bombings, not very useful for stand ins for attack on the death star, maybe for alderaan but otherwise it wouldn’t be that useful.
The bit where a load of civilians take up arms to fight with a group of practiced guerrilla fighters that George Lucas compared to the Viet Cong to fight off an occupying genocidal force that massively outgins them through the use of improvised weapons, ambushes and booby traps on a jungle planet in a film released just a few years after the end of the Vietnam War seems pretty familiar
my scifi vietnam war allegory went woke
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Don’t he have Vietnam war footage in the original cut of the film before the special effects were added?
Ww2 footage mostly but that’s cause ww2 had aerial dogfights and the kinda vibe they were going for with the space combat. Plane footage from Vietnam is just carpet bombings, not very useful for stand ins for attack on the death star, maybe for alderaan but otherwise it wouldn’t be that useful.
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right because a movie reflecting the surrounding zeitgeist is such a radical concept
I’m sure no Vietnamese farmer ever became radicalized under the boot of empire and became a guerilla resistance fighter. You’re a simpleton
The bit where a load of civilians take up arms to fight with a group of practiced guerrilla fighters that George Lucas compared to the Viet Cong to fight off an occupying genocidal force that massively outgins them through the use of improvised weapons, ambushes and booby traps on a jungle planet in a film released just a few years after the end of the Vietnam War seems pretty familiar
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Oh my… Mods please, can we keep this one as a pet?
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