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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)

sorry habs fans want to mythologize the guy who wasn’t drafted by them and wasn’t their first pick in the trade eventually becoming their youngest and first asian captain, who showed up every night through a rebuild when he went from being in the scf to the bottom of the league, who made montreal his full time home, who was there when they drafted the team’s 1OA that declared he wanted to play alongside him, got married in montreal despite him and his wife both being from ontario, has fumbled through a interview in french to show he’s been trying to learn french like he promised, who went to the gm and said don’t trade anyone away we can make it with this team and then pulled them into the playoffs with multiple clutch goals, who almost broke his stick pounding it on the ice because he was so happy they were back in the playoffs and came out to the crowd screaming ça va bien montreal?, and former habs legends all say they love him and he’s ken dryden’s favorite player to watch yeah can’t imagine why we’d do that