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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9644089" data-attributes="member: 18">And way beyond that - most of the stuff in Lucas' SW that seems like it's about something IRL/topical absolutely was (right down to commentary on Bush's government/Gulf War 2 in RotS), according to Lucas, kind of the inverse of Tolkien, where no matter how obvious the reference seemed, Tolkien denied it.I disagree, personally, I think if he'd done all three movies or even just both the second two, no-one would be saying anything like that. But the arms dealer/casino bit in TLJ is a bit orphaned from the rest of the movie, vibes-wise, even though I think it's kind of cool and shows a different side to the SW universe (that has been hinted at before).As a minor aside, my wife worked at an anti-arms-dealing charity at the time TLJ came out, and their small/normal people donations spiked hugely after it did, and slowly fell from that spike over a couple of months afterwards, so he certainly got through to some people there!(The BBC drama about arms dealing, the name of which escapes me, had a similar effect.)Yes that's absolutely right!</blockquote>