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ArchangelMadzz said:

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."

Well, I was referring specifically to Padme’s “This is how freedom dies, with thunderous applause” line from Revenge of the Sith, and how it was interpreted in the context of the political climate at the time. But yeah, Lucas in general put a lot of political and mythological stuff into his Star Wars movies and did a lot of research into it as well, which is why it always amuses me when people both in the Lucas purist and anti-Lucas camps try claiming that his Star Wars movies are just meant to be simple good vs. evil stories with no real subtext.

In terms of the whole “apolitical work still being taken as political” thing, a better example might be the third episode of the Doctor Who relaunch in 2005, which the writer intended purely as a tribute to the works of Charles Dickens, yet a bunch of people on the internet at the time somehow managed to interpret as an anti-immigration screed.