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The BBC reports that supporters of US President-elect Donald Trump are urging a boycott of the Star Wars film, Rogue One, next week, over claims that scenes had been reshot after the election to make the film more of a thinly-veiled jab linking the president-elect to racism.
Supporters of Donald Trump are urging a boycott of the Star Wars film, Rogue One, due for US release next week.
The campaign began with a series of tweets from activist Jack Posobiec, who claimed the writers changed the film to add scenes linking Mr Trump to racism.
Screenwriter Chris Weitz said that this was "completely fake", though he and another writer have tweeted their opposition to the US president-elect.
#DumpStarWars has been retweeted 120,000 times in the past 24 hours.
In a Periscope video, Jack Posobiec, who is an activist with Citizens for Trump, claimed the writers had said the Empire in the film "is a white supremacist organization like the Trump administration and the diverse rebels are going to defeat them".
"They're trying to make the point of using this movie to push the false narrative... that Trump is a racist." he said.
(Score: 4, Informative) by looorg on Sunday December 11 2016, @11:08PM
"the Empire in the film "is a white supremacist organization like the Trump administration and the diverse rebels are going to defeat them""
Will this apply to all the Star Wars movie or just the new shitty once? Cause it doesn’t make sense for the old good movies at all.
Star Wars came out in 1977. With that in mind I don’t think I have heard anything so silly about the movie in 39 years. It would require a pretty massive retcon to turn the empire into the space Reich. If the empire is like the Reich that would make the emperor, Palpatine, the Fuhrer? So the Rebels are then like the allied forces? Who is Darth Vader going to be in their weird little analogy? Not to mention all the other people – Who is Luke? Who is Leia? Who is Han?
I guess they also missed the part where the "diverse rebels" are pretty much just as white as the empire are. All white all the time. It's the intergalactic war of whiteness. The only people that are not white are the aliens, the droids and Lando. That isn’t very diverse. Also if the Empire are white supremacist how come they work with so many aliens?
Skip a few movies. The Space Reich then use a non-white person as the base for all their clone troopers? That isn’t very Aryan of them.
This all makes me thing about the scene in Chasing Amy when Hooper X goes on about how Luke is a nazi posterboy. I’m sure it’s on Youtube for the people that have not seen the movie. BLACK RAGE!
My only conclusion is that all these SJW-type people are f**king crazy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @11:39PM
Where else are you going to find masters of hokey old religions who complement the Reich? :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @03:42AM
Dude, your own post is fucking crazy.
What sane person even cares so much to try to make the narrative fit or not fit the way you did?
The empire was clearly inspired by the nazis - calling them stormtroopers and filming all those scenes with them in formation was kinda a big hint. And then Lucas referring to imperial officers as nazis in the DVD commentary [starwars.com] more than gave it away
The fact that everything doesn't perfectly line up, well duh! if it were a one-to-one match that wouldn't leave much room for Lucas to tell his own story.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday December 12 2016, @11:59AM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 3, Interesting) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday December 12 2016, @11:43AM
> My only conclusion is that all these SJW-type people are f**king crazy.
Check your facts - this particular storm in a teacup has been stirred up by Trump fans. Are you calling them SJW-types?
There have been numerous, deliberate parallels over the decades between the Empire and the Nazis, particularly in the extended universe. Anyone who missed the parallels in The Force Awakens[1] really doesn't know what they're looking for.
> The Space Reich then use a non-white person as the base for all their clone troopers? That isn’t very Aryan of them.
Interesting point. However I'd counter that the Empire is not supposed to be "Aryan" as that is a strictly earth-centric concept. They are Space Nazis in a more metaphorical way: Not so much bothered about differences between humans, as about human vs non-human. Also, note that in Earth history racist regimes have rarely had a problem sending the groups they persecute off to fight and die for the glory of the master race, wherever they can be compelled or persuaded to do so.
I agree though that the original trilogy was very very pasty white on both sides of the page, and the prequels only a tiny bit more diverse. Can't really speak for Rogue One as I haven't seen much about it yet, but I very much doubt that a big money-factory like Disney would spend time and cash re-writing a film that's already well into production just to make some political point. Consider that this film has taken YEARS to make, and Trump was not widely considered a serious contender for President (and therefore definitely not worthy of derailing a major motion picture) until somewhen this spring / summer. I'd go so far as to say that much of the left (who are the ones ostensibly behind this alleged conspiracy) had him written off a joke candidate until early November. Anyway, I doubt there was much opportunity to make major changes to Rogue One as late as summer 2016. Tweak the special effects or trim a few seconds off a scene maybe, but way too late to change the script, film new material or insert new scenes.
So basically, yeah - a handful of whiny, thin-skinned alt-right types are looking for something to feel wounded about. After all, now they have their man in the Whitehouse, they can hardly claim to be a beleaguered minority any more, can they? It does make one wonder whether the movement will survive the transition to a majority government, since the persecution complex is such a defining part of its character.
[1] Not strictly on-topic here, I acknowledge.