(May 12, 2022 at 11:37 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Space opera is the genre, and...interestingly, it's modeled on ww1.Lucas' brilliance here, was in melding (and explicitly so) campbells epic monomyth to a stylish narrative that calls up the spirit of a biplane dogfight, under the auspices of a cosmic but clearly naval conflict...with all the trappings of an overtly late 19th century political skullfuckery.
With late Roman Imperialism (in my opinion).