Nute Gunray from the Star Wars prequels

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RchHomieQuanChi
01/10/2025
03:05 PM
#1
Was based off of Newt (Nute) Gingrich and Ronald Reagan (Gunray - Raygun)

I legitimately did not know this until now. George Lucas is actually pretty based
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SpawnShadow
01/10/2025
03:07 PM
#2
Despite what the chuds think, Star Wars was never on their side.
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__aCEr__
01/10/2025
03:08 PM
#3
It's like poetry. They rhyme.
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RchHomieQuanChi
01/10/2025
03:08 PM
#4
Another fun one I just saw: General Grievous' ship is called "The Invisible Hand"...as in the invisible hand of the free-market
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Southernfatman
01/10/2025
03:09 PM
#5
Didn't he also base Palpatine on both Hitler and Nixon? Feel like I heard the Nixon comparison somewhere.
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RchHomieQuanChi
01/10/2025
03:09 PM
#6
Southernfatman posted...
Didn't he also base Palpatine on both Hitler and Nixon? Feel like I heard that somewhere.

Yes, I've seen that Lucas said that Palpatine before becoming a Sith was basically Richard Nixon
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Southernfatman
01/10/2025
03:12 PM
#8
__aCEr__ posted...
It's like poetry. They rhyme.

"But the only thing poetic here is that I was vomiting in stanzas. I don't even know what that means."

RchHomieQuanChi posted...
Yes, I've seen that Lucas said that Palpatine before becoming a Sith was basically Richard Nixon

Ah, gotcha. I think he made an Ewoks = Vietcong comparison too.
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ReturnOfDevsman
01/10/2025
03:12 PM
#9
You know, they should do a trivia show where they just throw out Star Wars-sounding names and the contestants have to guess whether they're actually a Star Wars character or a fake name that the studio made up.
Arguing on CE be all like:
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RchHomieQuanChi
01/10/2025
03:13 PM
#10
Southernfatman posted...
Ah, gotcha. I think he made an Ewoks = Vietcong comparison too.

Yeah, he basically based the entirety of Return of the Jedi on the Vietnam War, with the Ewoks/Rebels meant to be the Vietcong
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LeoRavus
01/10/2025
03:15 PM
#11
A lot of things in the Star Wars franchise are unoriginal. Lucas just looked for things from different cultures or periods in history and incorporated them into the movies. I almost shit a brick as a kid when I saw a native American statue in the Smithsonian with Princes Leia's hair buns.
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RchHomieQuanChi
01/10/2025
03:18 PM
#12
LeoRavus posted...
A lot of things in the Star Wars franchise are unoriginal. Lucas just looked for things from different cultures and incorporated them into the movies. I almost shit a brick as a kid when I saw a native American statue in the Smithsonian with Princes Leia's hair buns.

Tbf though, that's part of what makes Star Wars great. It's just a mish-mash of all the shit Lucas found cool during film school. Westerns, pirate movies, WWII movies, space operas, samurai movies, Eastern philosophy, etc.,
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ExtremeLuchador
01/10/2025
03:36 PM
#13
IIRC, people on Yahoo Answers used to say Raygun instead of Reagan because posts using his name in the title often wouldn't show up.
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