40 Years on, 'Return of the Jedi' Is the Most Surprisingly Revolutionary Star Wars Movie

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40 Years on, 'Return of the Jedi' Is the Most Surprisingly Revolutionary Star Wars Movie
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The most underrated entry into the original trilogy, the third film touched on themes of imperialism that soared over many viewers' heads

” and the cynicism which settled on the American public like a cloud after Watergate. Most of the fighting, you’ll notice, happens in forests, swamps and mountains.is ‘the dark one’ in the trilogy but Lucas knew there was darkness in this final instalment too: that’s why he initially tried to get David Lynch and a post-Instead, Lucas picked Richard Marquand to recreate the last days of Saigon with a cast of little bears who go ‘yub-nub’.

Not veryWhat matters is that in returning to the Vietnam allegory the whole thing feels complete, and the latter-dayFlash Gordon, for instance, uses it to power a noirish spy thriller which stays with the resistance on the ground.looked lovely, but couldn’t make up its mind as to whether it was a gangster story, a Man With No Name-style Western, or a Skywalker-Baby Yoda buddy pic.has started to look a bit flabby.

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