Posted on 12/13/2016 6:59:58 PM PST by MoochPooch
At the Saturday premiere of the latest Star Wars film, “Rogue One,” Disney chief executive Bob Iger offered a curious reading of the upcoming movie. This entry to the behemoth science fiction franchise was not political, he said. At all.
“Frankly, this is a film that the world should enjoy. It is not a film that is, in any way, a political film,” Iger said to the Hollywood Reporter. “There are no political statements in it, at all.” He added that he was “very proud” of the diversity of the cast but that, too, was “not a political statement, at all.”
Iger was eager to play down political tensions in a fictional far-off galaxy because he had been asked to respond to an all-too-real boycott percolating through social media: Dump Star Wars. “I think the whole story has been overblown and, quite frankly, it’s silly,” Iger said to the Hollywood Reporter. “I have no reaction to [this] story at all.”
The film’s ending was reshot to undermine President-elect Donald Trump, according to boycotters. Disney poured millions of dollars into the movie to give “Rogue One” subliminal, anti-Trump messages. If you voted for Trump, well, the minds behind Disney’s Star Wars hated you.
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The um D thingys are what allows her to destroy the distracted males.
Yeah, I hated that episode as well. It also didn’t help that, despite that marine’s “husband” constantly complaining about “witch hunts” regarding getting justice for him, Gibbs and that government official’s treatment of that marine’s CO after discovering he denied the guy a medal of honor for risking his life in combat to save others came far closer to an actual witch hunt, especially when, as both Gibbs and that official stated, that action had absolutely no bearing on the case at hand, yet they still managed to treat him as a criminal afterwards and even arrest him (sure, maybe denying him a medal of honor was a jerk move, but did that REALLY necessitate treating him like the murderer when he really wasn’t and knowing full well he wasn’t)? Probably the only silver lining of that episode was that the marine’s death by the end did not turn out to be a hate crime so much as the fact that he was about to blow the whistle on someone at an anonymous shelter selling drugs, with his sexuality playing absolutely no role in why he was killed at all. What’s worse is that, since the episode in question dealt with James Palmer’s daughter’s birth, we literally CAN’T dismiss the episode as filler. Such a shame that crap episode had to be the directorial debut of Leon Vance’s actor, Rocky Caroll.
Still, that didn’t stop me from watching the rest of NCIS, which was fortunately still pretty good despite that. It takes a whole LOT more than that just to get me to even consider quitting. To put it in perspective, the closest I’ve EVER gotten to quitting a show early was with NCIS Los Angeles’s election episode back in 2012 where they not only managed to push leftist politics even more than usual (and considering that’s the same show that treated people concerned with the border as being bad, that’s saying something), but the main NCIS team literally had no business investigating the assassination of Democrat candidate’s aide due to neither her nor the aide having any former connections to the Navy, nor was it even indicated to be a terror plot. Even that had me change my mind after watching the next episode, which actually WAS pretty good, especially by NCISLA standards. Generally, I make it a point to avoid stopping myself from watching a show, even when the show turns to crap, until at the very least the current season ends. For that matter, I thought the recent season of Supergirl was terrible especially considering the Alex/Maggie arc (honestly, watching the first season, not once did I EVER get the impression that Alex was a lesbian).
I actually will go see this film because of the story line. With that being said, George Lucas is highly political in all of his films. Star Wars is a very political film if you pick it apart from that angle. If you are like most and just rather sit and enjoy a movie, then Rogue One will be a fun movie to watch. The story for Rogue One has its origins in the first Star Wars movie as the it is Princess Leia who is delivering the Death Star plans retrieved from this story line. So it is kind of a sidebar prequel to the New Hope.
Some things just are what they are, an entertaining movie.
” Some were stronger in the force but in this movie we find that it is not based on training”
Nonsense. It was always that way. Vader said the force was strong with Luke before he had received more than a spits worth of training.
That’s interesting. Can you tell me where to find Francis Ford Coppola commenting on the Vietcong influence on Star Wars? I can’t seem to find it on Bing.
http://nypost.com/2014/09/21/how-star-wars-was-secretly-george-lucas-protest-of-vietnam/
Also discussed a bit in the documentary/book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, and I think they might even have talked about it a bit in People v George Lucas. And apparently in the book referenced in the article.
Now that’s good stuff. Fix the Star Trek reference and publish it.
Well, I know George Lucas commented on it in that article (heck, that was where I got irrefutable proof that Lucas had based not just the Ewoks, but also the Rebels on the Vietcong ever since Episode IV was in development, back when it was simply known as Star Wars), though I don’t recall Coppola mentioning the Vietcong ties in there, which was what I’m asking about.
I will look into Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, though.
The political commentary crap about this movie is just that - crap. This is not a political film, but a brilliant prequel to the very first Star Wars of 1977.
In fact, I’ll go as far as to call it perhaps the best Star Wars film after the original.
Excellent acting, plot, humor, heroism, etc, etc. The CGI re-animation of Peter Cushing was particularly eerie. It had EVERYTHING that the last Star Wars film did not. That one was the biggest disappointment of the franchise - this one is the most pleasant surprise.
Definitely can agree there, and I didn’t even notice ANY trace of SJWisms in there (which was one of the reasons I was afraid to see it, especially after those tweets from Weitz and Whitta [that reminds me, did Disney fire them afterward?].).
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