tobermoriansass:benkenob:Execute Order 66.#this scene and hux’s discourse in tfa are perhaps the mos
tobermoriansass:benkenob:Execute Order 66.#this scene and hux’s discourse in tfa are perhaps the most chilling of the franchise#because they perfectly encapsulate the spirit of the totalitarian/fascist aesthetics and what makes its efficiency#it’s the sense of scale and pomposity#the martial cult of the /military grandeur/ and the slightly iconoclast imagery#because the New Man has to take the old world down to reforge and restore it to its /greatness/#like#those shots are literally the visual representation of how an authoritarian regime narrates and mythifies its own birth and i’m fascinated#….and in addition we’ve got all the highly religious imagery associated with the topic of the /profanation of the temple/ (via lagren0uille)#the only other scene with an aesthetic to match is the death star in ro (via tobermoriansass) -- source link
#nnnnngh#star wars#sw meta