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this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
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Star Wars A New Hope was just “A hero’s journey” which is apparently a literary device or something that involves discrete events such as the hero must lose their mentor, and so on.
George Lucas called it at one point a fairy tale for a generation that grew up without them. I think he meant boomers.
I have no insider knowledge and it’s possible I’m wrong, but from 1977 as a little kid until now in 2025, this is the first time I’ve heard any claim it was somehow about Vietnam.
Direct from Lucas himself https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxl3IoHKQ8c
Lucas has described it as an allegory to the Vietnam War, so it can be both.
it is definately an allegory, georges work before star wars is really interesting, his work after trys to implement similar themes to the vietnam allegory.