For some reason today, I was reminded of the movie "Spaceballs" and I had the idea of something like Spaceballs as an in-universe political satire somewhere in the GFFA, which in turn got me thinking about the idea of political satire in the GFFA in general. I'm sure the Rebellion had plenty of that going around about Palpatine (and, um, depending on what sorts of salaciously insulting speculations the Rebels got up to about, say, the nature of Palpatine and Vader's relationship, I'm now imagining that at some point after ROTJ, Luke and Leia would look at each other like, "...that's our bio-father. Oh, no.")
But anyway, political satire in the GFFA! Anyone else have any ideas for or about it? Because on the one hand there's Star Wars parodies repurposed as in-universe satire, on the other there's political satire in our universe that could have parallels in the GFFA. (Given that George Lucas has said that Richard Nixon was his inspiration for Palpatine, I'm now tempted to spend this weekend digging up Watergate-and-Pentagon-papers-era political cartoons....)
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timeasmymeasure
Parody and satire in the GFFA
Date: 2023-07-07 07:15 pm (UTC)But anyway, political satire in the GFFA! Anyone else have any ideas for or about it? Because on the one hand there's Star Wars parodies repurposed as in-universe satire, on the other there's political satire in our universe that could have parallels in the GFFA. (Given that George Lucas has said that Richard Nixon was his inspiration for Palpatine, I'm now tempted to spend this weekend digging up Watergate-and-Pentagon-papers-era political cartoons....)