Also, in one scene, the white-clad knights and white-robed German priests lynch old men and women, and throw babies onto bonfires. This orgy of violence is orchestrated by a black-robed monk.
I really hate to bump an older thread but I’ve been catching up and this quote just struck me as familiar… you paralleled it to the Tantive IV siege in Star Wars, but now that TFA has been released I believe there is a much stronger connection, which tells me that the new film-makers are not only studying what Lucas did prior, but also what he studied as well. I won’t spoil the scene for those who haven’t seen it, but those who have know what I’m referring to.
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Let’s talk about a few other costumes from the rough draft, namely the Imperials:
Although the rough draft describes Prince Valorum as wearing a "fascist black-and-chrome uniform," given his status as a Black Knight of the Sith, he presumably would have worn black robes, like the other Sith knight seen earlier in the script (and Darth Maul in TPM)…
Darth Maul’s skin–mostly black, with red tattoos–reflects the idea Lucas probably had to cast Prince Valorum as an African-American.Later on, Valorum is demoted in rank, and is seen wearing the uniform of a common stormtrooper. (At this stage the stormtroopers likely had black armor.)
This concept is returned to in TFA as Finn/FN-2187.