(March 9, 2017 at 3:50 am)Moros Synackaon Wrote: You cannot easily invent a fictional human culture that the audience can internalize without using some familiar trappings of said audiences culture.Exactly.
Someone else noted that they speak English in Star Wars. Anyone notice how Western the interactions are between Star Wars characters across movies? Did anyone notice the Imperial Tanks at Jeddah (a sandy place with stone buildings) had parallels with pictures from Iraq (Rogue One)?
Or how the Empire uniforms really are one swastika and one totenkopf away from a selection of Nazi uniforms? (The Force Awakens really dialed that to 11)
My point is that Star Wars imports a lot of cultural context from our world despite being set in a completely different space/time. If they babbled about iPhones, I would definitely consider that immersion breaking.
"What part of $X don't you understand?" seems like a very minor case of immersion breaking.
Now if they had some twi'lek say "Oh no you di'in't girlllfriend!", that'd be taking it too far. But some minor slang terms are going to be in the films.
Did you notice how much of the "force" talk from episodes 4, 5 and 6 sounds like it's right out of a 70's kung fu movie?? I mean, it's almost laughable! But hey, it's cool, cause it wasn't Disney owned, even though it's completely a 70's pop culture thing rammed into a Space Opera, lol.
(P.S. I'm not knocking the eastern influences, I think it was part of the appeal of the early movies)
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