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i think the key difference between george lucas’s star wars and disney’s star wars is that lucas is a man with an ideology. someone with a point of view, and all that entails. which comes with ideas of revolution, anti-imperialism, challenging the status quo, cultural appropriation and racist stereotypes. complex and contradictory ideas because that’s how artists are: complex and complicated people. disney is not. disney is a corporation. a corporation can’t have ideology, because ideology defeats the purpose of profit. and when the only thing you do is to turn on the movie manufacturing machine before you sit down and plan what ideas are you trying to convey to the audience, then your results are going to be washed out corporate garbage. and because when you’re a giant corporation who only cares about selling to the widest audience possible, you can’t take sides. you can’t decide on an idea. because you want to sell your product to people who are on the entire political spectrum. which results in movies without ideology, without purpose, without soul.

I have been looking for this post for years after I came across it and it’s finally here and I need to reblog this because it is absolutely and entirely accurate.

#as I always say: lucas was making a samurai film and a ww2 flying ace film and a western film and adding laser swords#because he fundamentally LIKED samurai films and dambusters films and westerns and 40’s adventure serials#but disney are making a ‘star wars film’ and adding nothing because it already had laser swords and they have nothing else to say#xerox of a xerox baybeeeee (via harrietvane)

When people act like LBH is the bad guy TM in the relationship it’s like ok we all love a good drama but we must not forget that SQQ throws LBH into hell, and then lets everyone else at qing jing peak including his childhood best friend think he’s just crazy and mean for going to huan hua palace instead of back to qing jing peak when he escapes. And LBH lets that happen - lets everyone see him as this crazy and evil demon with totally inappropriate feelings for his Shizun, and his fellow disciples never find out what happened. SQQ was literally the gay guy who tells you he’s gonna marry you in private and then pulls his hoodie up when he walks by you in public with his friends and just lets everyone think you’re crazy when you blow a gasket about it. The ending with him openly leaving with LBH is him finally being a good partner and saying, I’m not going to be ashamed of you anymore. I’m not going to literally make you sneak out a window when my friends knock on my door anymore, I’m not going to put strangers opinions or preconceived notions I have about myself above the literal love of my life anymore. And randos are shocked that he runs away with this evil deranged demon who almost ruined the entire world but neither of them care to clarify anything to anyone because they ended up with eachother and are in LOVEEEEE ‼️‼️