Star Wars “Andor” season two depicts the banality of American fascism

In the first three episodes of Andor Season 2, which began to flow on Disney+ on April 22, one of the many interlocking lines takes us to Mina Rao, an agricultural planet on the outdoor edge of the Salafi War Galaxy, where a group of rebel soldiers are advancing as independent mechanics. The Bix (Adria Arjona) group includes a wanted fugitive hiding on Mina-RAU without the necessary paperwork. So when a staff of imperial soldiers arrives to carry out the unpopular “supply census”, Bix feels anxious.

“If they are examining visas, this is a problem,” she says.

“Look, they need pimples,” a local farmer answers. “They know that we need help, and they know that everyone is not legal. How difficult their appearance is, and what they do – 10 years have passed since the last review, no one is happy.”

In the next episode, the rebels will betray the empire, a reminder of the difficulty of doing the right thing in the face of authoritarian power.

For Kempshall, AndorThe greatest innovation is the way to reveal “popular fascism elements”. We all know that the two labels are evil, but since the chain explains, ordinary people are only doing their work – which makes paper leaves and enforcing security – who makes this evil possible in the first place.

“These are the ones who will kick your door at 3 am or impose the laws of change,” he says. “It is the true face of the empire. It looks natural, loving, boring and therefore terrifying. It is an increasing fact of persecution.”

The tradition of the stars war of highlighting American imperialism is due to its early days.

Before creating a stars war, Lucas was It is supposed to be directed The end of the world now For his friend, Oscar -winning director Francis Ford Coppola. But after the movie fell Hell development He leaked, Lucas took the placing of the Vietnam War and transferred it into space, Convert Viet Kong to the rebel allianceA army of freedom fighters, who are involved in the guerrilla war warfare against an armed armed empire with weapons.

This is what made it in the final version of the movie.

“In the oldest of the drafts of what may become Star Wars“Lucas was largely frank about how the empire intended to betray America, which fell in the fascism,” says Kembcall.

When Lucas returned to the Star Wars Galaxy after a 16 -year -old break to lead a pre -driving, he had a different metaphor. I was released in 1999, a year ago before George W. Bush became president, George W. Bush, Star Wars: The first episode – The PHANTOM MENACE Is symbolic of how democracies collapsed in dictatorship and get rid of power from a strong man, with aspects of everyone? From Julius Caesar to Napoleon Bonaparte. (Lucas may be the obsession of the haven at the time with the trade tariffs, too Our current economic crisis predicted))

But by the time it is over Revenge from Seth (2005), Lucas turned his attention to President Bush. Close to the end of the movie, Anakin Skywalker resorted to his old friend Obi-Wuan Kinobi and screams, “If you are not with me, you are my enemy”, a non-resentment to the Iraq war that immediately attracted comparisons with Bush’s threat after 9/10: “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.”

After the sequences that were badly reviewed, Lucas fell from the Star Wars for several other decades before the privilege was finally sold to Disney. The re -launch of the Skywalker Epic, after 30 years after 30 years Jaidi’s return 1983). In 2015 Power awakensThe remains of the empire fixed it in the first place, which clearly takes Nazi features with its escalating red flags and angry leaders.

For Kempshall, the reason for this shift towards a more colloquial Nazi metaphor has nothing to do with politics and more with the modern culturalist.

“Vietnam is no longer the main bouquet of pop culture,” he says. “Therefore, the empire is likely to develop to transfer the level of evil.”

This was definitely true in 2015, a year ago that Donald Trump became president, but after a decade, the afternoon changed again. As happened in the 1970s during the reign of Richard Nixon or the beginning of the first decade of the twentieth century under Bush, America is heading towards fascism. In a sudden return to the model, the stars war is here to reflect this political reality to us.