This article does not report what I read today, which is that Lucas said "When I started this we were GIVING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION TO SADDAM." In this piece, published in the Boston Herald, Lucas is blatantly attacking Bush.
So what?
I don't ask the people at the grocery store their views before I buy food there. We're all Americans. We can have differences--I know that's a shock to some of the lockstep mentality people here, but I am far more pro-W than some FReepers and I don't have any problem paying money to see a movie because the director doesn't think exactly like I do about politics.
Remember how we made fun of the DUmmies and their "Not One Damn Dime" Day? How times have changed...
Who cares what George Lucas' political views are. He is obviously living in a fantasy world and has no idea what the real world is about. My four year old grandson has a more reality based opinion of the world than Lucas does.
George- just keep smokin' them joints...
George Lucas is the Troy McClure (Simpsons) of Hollywood directors.
"Hello, I'm George Lucas, you may remember me from such films as THX and (pause for a long thought) well that sucked. You know me best for directing the most overrated retread project seen in the universe Star Wars."
Do you really think that the movie promotes atheism, liberalism, socialism, or communism? And do you really think that they hate America?
Wouldn't it be a terrible shame if this pot-bellied 50-something hippie lost his shirt on this movie because of peer-to-peer file sharing!
Lucas will now be the Darth Vader of the left wing conspiracy, I so Dub him. His allies Michael (Jabba the Hutt) Moore, and George (Anakin) Soros, have formed a trio
of exploitive treasonous, snakes.
Ops4 God BLess America!
Few people in history have ever been as completely insulated from reality as cinema idiot savant George Lucas. But some tiny shred leaked through, just enough to convince him that he needed to trump up some contemporary angle to make his lame, derivative space opera appear significant. So he rips off talking points from Michael Moore and Ted Kennedy and inserts them into the plot. Voila - instant relevance.
This can't be true because many "FReepers" attacked Michael Medved over making just such a statement.
The signal to noise ratio has gotten very high at FR lately as new (one year or less) accounts attack conservatives.
As Sean Hannity has also noted, we are eating our own on this website now. I suspect that some of the "we" ain't like us.
I'm patting myself on the back for never falling for that Star Wars crapola. I saw the first one and thought it moderately entertaining. I tried to sit through the second, but my eyelids became too heavy. Lucas has proven to be just another marginally talented Hollyweird leftist nitwit who can't get over himself.
It should be pointed out that the story was written in the late 60's early 70's . It aint about Bush no matter how much the leftist trash would want it to be.
For someone who reportedly reads history, he seems like a boob. Has the rarified weedy air of N. Calif. zombified him?
I enjoyed the first Star Wars movie, but I thought it went downhill from there. Samuel Delaney once told me that he talked to Lucas after the first movie came out and asked him why the good guys were all human and the bad guys were all aliens. That's when Lucas started down the road to political correctness.
The first time I heard the phrase "the dark side of the force" I said to myself, oh oh, sounds like a cross between Gnosticism and Manicheanism. It's not a promising theological concept. Yes, it's only a movie, but when the underlying principles are skewed, then the movie is skewed.
What I find hipocritical is that this same dude (Lucas) totally sterotyped the Trade Federation (Asians), Gungans (Jamaicans), and Watto (Jewish). Yet, the left uttered not a single peep!
Lucas has this right. The democrats are the bad people who think they are good.
No Clueless George, the issue is how does a federal republic turn itself into a democracy as the US has and how many more years will that democracy last?
Those that know nothing of history are doomed to repeat it. Stick to fantasy, George! You've demonstrated yet again how well you excel at it.
Man, Lucas is no doubt a lefty but I think your vitriol is a bit over the top. This storyline has been in place since 1976.
In the Journal of the Whills prologue from the original 1976 novelization of Star Wars, (then titled "Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker") the following was written:
So it was with the Republic at its height. Like the greatest of trees, able to withstand any external attack, the Republic rotted from within though the danger was not visible from outside.
Aided and abetted by restless, power-hungry individuals within the government, and the massive organs of commerce, the ambitious Senator Palpatine caused himself to be elected President of the Republic. He promised to reunite the disaffected among the people and to restore the remembered glory of the Republic.
Once secure in office he declared himself Emperor, shutting himself away from the populace. Soon he was controlled by the very assistants and boot-lickers he had appointed to high office, and the cries of the people for justice did not reach his ears.
According to my sources Bush hadn't even decided to run for pres at this time, though I may be mistaken.
Lucas based the Emperor and fall of the Republic more on Nazi Germany and Hitler's rise to power than anything else. Leftists (MSM) never fail to pounce on an opportunity to connect Bush to Hitler and this is what is happening here.
He's right, the parallels can't be believed.
The war in Iraq could only have significant parallels to Vietnam if the war was started by Democrat presidents who didn't really want to win the thing, defunded halfway through by a Democrat Congress, and ended by a "moderate" Republican president who only got elected on the promise of caving to said Democrats.
Some white trash slut pointing at naked captives doesn't mean there are parallels between the two wars.
And in this "series" can anyone find that defining moment when "the majority ruled", instead of the rule of law, and the old republic became a true democracy to eventually be taken over by the evil Emperor Palpatine?
This dialog doesn't even have a good cadence. Oh, wait.. I forgot... dialog in Episode I and II, bad they were.