• squiblet@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    There was this kid in my 4th grade class obsessed with Hitler and Nazis apparently because he thought they were like James Bond villains or Darth Vader.

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      Hollywood really didn’t do a good job of portraying these people as the dysfunctional fuckheads they were.

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        In the defense of Lucas, Vader was the hero of a tragedy meanwhile Palpatine is basically an amalgamation of three different politicians and if lucas was being completely honest Palpatine would be named Richard W. Hitler.

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          It’s more then just Star Wars. Hollywood seems to think that cold professionals are the only way to depict nazis and nazi allegories. I wish there were more depictions closer to “are we the baddies” where they hugely miscalculated something because if their arrogance. But it’s harder to write a hero character when the villain trips over themself.