Posted on 05/18/2005 7:09:27 AM PDT by Jon Alvarez
Alvy, founder of PABAAH.com, is slated to appear on "ABC World News Tonite with Peter Jennings" tonite(Wednesday 5/18/05 6:30PM EST).
Topic: Reaction to George Lucas and his anti-Americanism at the Cannes Film Festival and subsequent boycott of all things Lucas.
Perhaps Mr. Lucas can cite one freedom he's lost?
"It is just one of those re-occuring things. I hope this doesn't come true in our country. Maybe the film will awaken people to the situation of how dangerous it is . . . The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we are doing now in Iraq are unbelievable." --George "Michael Moore" Lucas
Thanks for the heads-up....I will check it out tonight.
I love how all these lefists blame "the lies of Vietnam" on Richard Nixon. He didn't get us involved there and was the one who finally got us out!
Hey Lucas, why don't you comment on that wonderful war in Bosnia? Or maybe Kosovo?
True. America went into Vietnam for a damn good reason, and America went into Iraq for a damn good reason. So I'm with you on the parallels, George.
check out this interview...they are almost gleeful
http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/movies/mmx-0505180309may18,0,1141542,print.story?coll=mmx-movies_heds
As Senator Padme, played by Natalie Portman, watches Palpatine consolidate his power amid a rapturous senate, she comments disgustedly, "This is how liberty dies: with thundering applause."
"I didn't expect that to be true," Lucas said, then laughed. "It gets truer every day, unfortunately."
(producer) McCallum was willing to make one prediction: "There's no question that the French are going to love the movie. We are definitely going to get the Golden Freedom Fry Award for best movie of the year, because they'll see it exactly the way they see their relationship with us now."
I used to like his movies but not now. @$$hat kennedy should have never started with nam in the first place.
Yes, they are gleeful.....it is too bad. I probably won't see the movie as I am not a Star Wars fan, but I know and love many who are. Many that are die-hard conservatives but will put that aside to see the movie. They are just that big of fans. At least the other side is being heard a little, I will definitely watch tonight.
Have a great day!
Hollyweird serves only to remind of of how America hating they are.
the crew is here, but tell me the story will air Thursday most likely...
I'll be rooting for the Empire and the Sith.
Does anyone here play "Knights of the old Republic II"?
fyi--story will air thursday or friday nite...
also--we got good mentions today in usa today and ny times
i did mention free republic on the abc clip, we'll see if they use that sound bite.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2005-05-17-sith-politics_x.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/19/movies/19star.html
Friend, this is one of those times.
If you think you are going to be put on ABC tonight for any reason other than to be made fun of, you are sadly mistaken.
You know, people were looking for hidden meanings in the oddest places even back in the 1960's. In fact, one man thought he had detected hidden meanings from songs he had heard on the Beatles self-titled double album. He used the "messages" as the basis for the murders of eight human beings. His name? Charles Manson.
This, if anything, should tell you what kind of people look for meanings in places where there are none.
I guess we shall see, eh? Unsure how speaking from the heart can be twisted...
It has been an amazing couple of years, I never had any idea how many people would see something wrong in standing proudly for your country.
I appreciate your concern, though.
Thanks for the update on the time. You have mail.
Dude, for one thing, you are tilting at windmills.
all righty then...
But it tells you nothing about the kind of people who look for meanings in places where there are some. Lucas and Actors in this project are the ones highlighting said 'hidden meanings'. We are just commenting on these acknowledged 'hidden meanings'. Which apparently were not hidden very well.
Hey bonehead. The French were the ones who got us involved with Vietnam in the first place.
Very easily. Let me put on my progressive nitwit hat for a minute.
Sir, you and fellow conservatives have said you are boycotting this movie. Now that the movie has had the biggest opening day in movie history, is the conservative boycott a failure ? Does this also mean that the conservative movement in general is losing steam ?
failure? not at all...the media, including the NY Times and USA Today, helped broadcast our message about Lucas and his views on America...thus, our goal of alerting the American public, particularly the patriots out there, was successful. They can make an educated decision about how to spend their money...
Lucas won't get my money.
Nonsense. As Lucas pointed out, the script was written before Iraq.
What brought this on was a group of French Fried Fools who looked at the film at Cannes and thought, "Oooh-la-la! He is talking about ze War on Terror." The media ran with it, apparently not using the same restraint as they did with the Paul McCartney Death Rumor.
And, again, we are talking about a motion picture where 75 percent of what you see on the screen is visual effects. Think about that.
When the script was written is immaterial to the fact that it now appears as an attack on Bush. It was not just the French who have pointed this out. Lucas himself as well as other Directors and Actors involved with the actual project have been pointing this out. If you are aware of how a movie is made, there are numerous opportunities to cut out parts of movies before the final version (called a cut) is made. The plain facts are that Lucas kept the specific line in about 'you are with us or against us'. It should have been cut out entirely due to the fact that we are now in a war with an enemy who apparently has been getting covert assistance from countries which are currently neutral to the US. The Commander in Chief used a similar line to highlight the covert assistance the islamic extremist have been getting.
Hey, Jon, I saw PABAAH mentioned in an editorial in the Austin American-Statesman Sunday. I forget who wrote it, but it was most likely syndicated. Looks like you've hit the big time.:)
"I love how all these lefists blame "the lies of Vietnam" on Richard Nixon. He didn't get us involved there and was the one who finally got us out!"
And the chump is about to pocket another billion this year.............sheesh : )
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