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To: Zhang Fei

Lucas is way out on the left, and I wondered what possessed him to make a movie like Star Wars where a wholesome American kid like Mark Hamill played the hero. Now I know. He intended the polar opposite of what audiences perceived.


5 posted on 12/17/2015 12:49:00 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei
These memories were fresh in movie audience's minds as they viewed the on-screen struggle of poorly trained and equipped Rebels against the technological juggernaut that was the Empire.

Really? The average age of the movie audience for that film was well below 20 years old. They had no friggin' clue about Vietnam. Maybe years later, yes. But sitting in a dark theatre watching that huge Imperial Correlian Class Star Destroyer chase down that rebel ship? Oh yeah...they got all of that subtle allegory right off, I'm sure.

This author needs to switch brands of crack.

8 posted on 12/17/2015 12:54:41 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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