[Variety] Disney's Boy Trouble: Corp seeking ways to win back young men

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OlfinBedwere said:

JackHandy said:

First step would be to rid all politics, social or otherwise, from their company. Let it be an artist-driven company, not a business one. If they would do these two things, you might see the return of their glory days.

That’s never going to happen for two reasons. Firstly, the only way you’re going to completely remove politics from a work is by making it so that it isn’t actually about anything beyond the most dirt-simple “heroes take on the villain and win” story. Secondly, no matter how much you try to make a work apolitical, people will read politics into it anyway - case in point, George Lucas putting an extremely general point about how dictatorships get started into Revenge of the Sith, and people mistaking it for an attack on George W. Bush (or if you really want to go back, the whole debate over whether Biggs’ deleted introduction scene from A New Hope was meant to be an allegory for Vietnam draft dodgers).

There's zero chance you're referring to STAR WARS as apolitical??

The entire trilogy was inspired by the Vietnam war. George Lucas meant for Star Wars to be overtly political. He wanted it to be clear that empires, not only like that in Star Wars but also in his own words, the real life British and American Empire, were in the wrong. He literally said, "That was the whole point."