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Y tanto. Ese temazo no desentonaría absolutamente nada en Revenge of the Sith.
E irónicamente, es más que apropiado. Y Williams lo sabía, claro.
On the flip side, Lucas needed his antagonists; he imagined an oppressive empire of evil inspired by the Nazi regime during World War II. The tyrannical despot in charge of the organisation was also inspired by Lucas’ keen interest in modern history. Sheev Palpatine, also credited as The Emperor in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, was inspired by the likes of Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Adolf Hitler, but most directly by former US president Richard Nixon.
Although Lucas’ “Star Wars” were fought in a galaxy far, far away, he was guided by terrestrial warfare. Written in the mid-1970s, the original Star Wars trilogy loosely reflects the story of the Nixon administration’s role in the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975.
President Nixon, who served between from 1969 to 1974, was seen by many as a deceitful tyrant due to the Watergate Scandal and his involvement in the Vietnam War. In the 2013 book The Making of Return of the Jedi, Lucas is quoted in an interview excerpt from 1981. Asked whether Palpatine was a Jedi, he replied, “No, he was a politician. Richard M. Nixon was his name. He subverted the senate and finally took over and became an imperial guy, and he was really evil. But he pretended to be a nice guy.”
