I do a speech with nice slides about Star Wars and how Reagan was Luke, how the Evil Emperor was the any of the old Soviet Dictators (and I have a slide of Brezhnev & the Emperor & they are VERY close, so I go back and forth), then Gorby and Darth, but Darth without his helmet where he is pasty faced and has that red streak on his head, right where Gorby’s red birth mark is.
The students think it’s hysterical.
Honestly, either one of your views of Star Wars would have been much preferable. In fact, once upon a time, I had similar views as well.
...Too bad George Lucas had other ideas from us and he just so happened to be the creator of the franchise, and basically used the films to spit on America and what it represented, and worse, tried to paint terrorists like the Vietcong as heroes and... and... excuse me for a second...
(walks off. Clanging metal and glass shattering with inaudible angry shouts can be heard in the distance. Walks back).
Sorry, am genuinely angry at George Lucas for pulling that sleight of hand on us. Maybe if it weren’t for that revelation, I would still root for the good guys in the film (I do not like having to root for the bad guys, yet thanks to that revelation from Lucas, Murch, and Chris Taylor, I don’t have any other choice to do so, since it’s either that, or continue rooting for the Rebels even when I now know they are based on the Vietcong and Communists).
Well, I’ll be seeing Rogue One. Can’t say I’ll be rooting for the “good guys,” though (George Lucas himself already put a nix on that the second irrefutable evidence came out that he based them on the hated Vietcong, and NOT American Minutemen as I had been led to believe). At least I’ll compensate for a certain scene nearing the end of the film.
Either way, Donald Trump was definitely preferable to Hillary, and in that sense, would work as the Rogues, even if that clearly wasn’t what Whitta and Weitz envisioned.
I do a speech with nice slides about Star Wars and how Reagan was Luke, how the Evil Emperor was the any of the old Soviet Dictators (and I have a slide of Brezhnev & the Emperor & they are VERY close, so I go back and forth), then Gorby and Darth, but Darth without his helmet where he is pasty faced and has that red streak on his head, right where Gorby’s red birth mark is.
The students think it’s hysterical.
Is it not ironic and interesting that in “The Force Awakens” that C3PO comes back with one red arm? Since his last appearance, he has had his left arm replaced... A LEFT RED arm???