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After American Graffiti, George [Lucas] had wanted to do Apocalypse
Now. George ... had worked on the script ... back in 1969.Then, when
Warner Brothers backed out, the project was abandoned. It was still
too hot a topic, the war was still on... and it just wasn't going to
happen. So George considered his options [and] he decided, 'All right,
if it's politically too hot as a contemporary subject, I'II put the
essence of the story in outer space and make it in a galaxy long ago
and far, far away'. Star Wars is George's transubstantiated version of
Apocalypse Now. The rebel group were the North Vietnamese, and the
Empire was the US -- quoted at
http://www.cinestatic.com/trans-mat/Fisher/sfcapital.htm

This guy Mark Fisher writes sensible stuff about topics I only drool
over. Here's a link to his thesis:
http://www.cinestatic.com/trans-mat/Fisher/FCcontents.htm