No link because I found the image on twitter.
Lucas brings up the American Revolutionary War (he said something about “hayseeds in coonskin hats”) as a parallel to the Vietnam War, probably to smooth over the discomfort the lib interviewer has with characterizing the modern and 60’s US as the evil empire. So I don’t think that’s a correction, more like an insistence on continuing the parallel.
Side note, that turn of phrase was a masterful way to prevent/delay the interviewer from dismissing the viet kong as “terrorists.” Lucas is extremely sharp. I definitely couldn’t have directed the conversation as effectively.
Yeah he’s absolutely trying to make sure there that it is explicitly understood that is the American empire not just an “evil” empire that you can swap to anyone else.
Didn’t a lot of early CPV propaganda use the same American Revolution imagery in an appeal to the west?
