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To: DesScorp

Unfortunately, you’re right about George Lucas and Star Wars (especially the whole anti-American angle, which unlike, say, his claim that Vader was always meant to be Luke’s father or his claim that Greedo had always shot first, this bit actually IS backed up by his 1973 development notes. Hence why I’m rooting for the Empire. No one tricks me into rooting for communists and gets away with it), and as early as ROTJ he started giving hints that he does not actually believe in true good and evil (Obi-Wan Kenobi pretty much stated to Luke that truth basically depended on a point of view when Luke confronted him about his lying about Vader, and that’s not even getting into his infamous “Only a Sith Deals in Absolutes” retort in Revenge of the Sith. It’s funny, even though the Sith were supposed to be evil, they actually came far closer to actually HAVING moral absolutes than the actual heroes.).

I won’t say that we should give up on Hollywood, though, as believe it or not, there’s still some people there who are willing to promote American values, especially those of their customers, instead of trying to interject left-wing messages. There’s American Sniper, for one.


40 posted on 05/21/2018 7:40:54 AM PDT by otness_e
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To: otness_e

Also ironic:

Looking back, there was a potentially brilliant political allegory in the fact that the Jedi had become villainous themselves and that they ruled by an anti-Democratic “deep state” shadow government that pulled all the strings, while the “free traders” were really working for the emperor despite all of their rhetoric about freedom.

Lucas just had to be be too overtly injecting politics by lines that deliberately echoed George W. Bush.


49 posted on 05/21/2018 8:18:13 AM PDT by dangus
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