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To: rickmichaels

The first two films glorified fascism and racism.

The award scene at the end of the first move is cribbed straight from Leni Riefenstahl. The plot line of the second movie is that a Black man will sell out his friend for a chance at a white woman.


19 posted on 06/20/2015 11:30:23 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35
The plot line of the second movie is that a Black man will sell out his friend for a chance at a white woman.

Interesting you should say that. I was a graduate student when the first "Star Wars" movies were in the theatres, going for a degree in Special Education. One of my students to whom I was an aide was a young black teen with a rather severe case of Cerebral Palsy. He loved the first movie, and couldn't wait to see the second. His mom took him to the premiere. That next Monday, I asked him about it. He was very upset! When I asked him why, all he could say, in his CP-affected speech, was "Lando Calrissian! I hate him!" I think the fact that the character betrayed Han and the group deeply hurt him - particularly the fact that Calrissian was black.

71 posted on 06/20/2015 1:13:12 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: PAR35
The plot line of the second movie is that a Black man will sell out his friend for a chance at a white woman.


132 posted on 06/20/2015 5:13:08 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (So is carbon dioxide the "Smoke of Satan"?)
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