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Revenge of the Republicans (Star Wars head George Lucas confirms this view)
The Ottawa Sun ^
| Mon, May 16, 2005
| By BRUCE KIRKLAND, Sun Media
Posted on 05/17/2005 3:50:07 PM PDT by weegee
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To: weegee
Yeah - it's wishful thinking anyway that we can hurt George Lucas in any way. Whether he make a mint or not is no skin off his back.
To: Lord Nelson
A farewell flying f.u. to the fans.
He has said that he wants to make small films afterwards, that Star Wars was never supposed to become his life's work.
So be it.
There are better films that I haven't seen and some sequels that I still have not seen (including the second Back To The Future film).
There's time to see them and if I die before I do, so what.
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posted on
05/17/2005 7:12:34 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Funny how prisoners at Gitmo can have their religious books but our school kids can't.)
To: JenB; marajade; ValenB4; mikrofon; filbert; bentfeather; Brett66; eccentric; melbell; Tolik; ...
Well my wife and I is going to see the movie twice.. Ok we are Star Wars geeks.. However, I'm more excited about the movie
Serenity
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posted on
05/17/2005 7:28:24 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: weegee
The BTTF sequels were very high quality actually. At least compared to the usual standard for sequels.
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posted on
05/17/2005 7:32:13 PM PDT
by
Borges
To: sharktrager
My personal favorite was that "Bonnie and Clyde" was actually about Viet Nam.
It was certainly about the way the counterculture glamorized the outsider. A metaphor for it anyway. George Romero has admitted that 'Night of the Living Dead' was about what he saw as the chaos of the era. All those SF films of the 1950s were Cold War Parables even though people didn't think about it at the time.
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05/17/2005 7:34:45 PM PDT
by
Borges
To: sharktrager
I once wrote a paper in college about how "Aliens" was an anology for James Cameron's experiences in Vietnam.
Of course, I knew that Cameron was a truck driver at the time that I claimed he was incountry...
Got an A too.
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posted on
05/17/2005 8:26:53 PM PDT
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Starter
To: weegee; KevinDavis; Borges
Wasn't Nixon Lucas's original inspiration for Emperor Palpatine?
To: Starter
Cameron admiteed on the Commentary for it that he had a Vietnam analogy in mind.
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posted on
05/18/2005 7:25:30 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: Lord Nelson
"Why did he have to bring current politics into his movie?"
He didn't. Critics are reading them into it when its really not applicable.
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05/18/2005 10:32:02 AM PDT
by
marajade
(Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
To: marajade
I was wondering about that. I really wanted to see this movie. So I can go, relax, see it as entertainment and not get my knickers in a knot? Did he write the script with the intent to attack the Bush Administration?
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