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Critics Say 'Star Wars:Episode 2-Attack of the Clones' Has Racial Stererotypes (Liberal Wacko Alert)
Detroit News.com ^ | May 18, 2002 | Michael H. Hodges

Posted on 05/18/2002 11:23:03 PM PDT by codebreaker

Edited on 05/07/2004 7:08:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

George Lucas, sometimes accused of reinforcing racial stereotypes with his movies, has done it again according to critics.

Latino critics in particular charge his latest Star Wars epic toys with American paranoia about Mexican immigration with its cloned army of swarthy lookalikes who march lockstep by the tens of thousands, and ultimately end up serving as Darth Vaders white suited warriors.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Philosophy; US: Michigan; United Kingdom
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To: Aggie Mama; marajade
Mara, aside from Jar-Jar, how did you like EP II?

Have either of you seen the Jar-Jar Binks language translation site? It will automatically translate anything into Gungan for you. I'm going to go see, if it still exists.

221 posted on 05/20/2002 6:15:09 PM PDT by 4Freedom
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To: Aggie Mama
A good book for getting you up to date on all things in the Star Wars books, magazines, etc, minus the New Jedi Order, is the Star Wars Essential Chronology.
222 posted on 05/20/2002 6:18:18 PM PDT by ConservativeTeen
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To: codebreaker
Good movie, saw it last night-dont miss the last 30 minutes. I think George Lucas is lifting his sequel's histories on the last days of the Roman Empire..

I've always thought he lifted the storyline generally from the bible.

223 posted on 05/20/2002 6:20:09 PM PDT by #3Fan
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To: SuziQ
From, what I told would say a word in Navajo that they'd translate into English. Then they'd take the English word...
to hell with it let me do a quick search.

Here we go

When a Navajo code talker received a message, what he heard was a string of seemingly unrelated Navajo words. The code talker first had to translate each Navajo word into its English equivalent. Then he used only the first letter of the English equivalent in spelling an English word. Thus, the Navajo words "wol-la-chee" (ant), "be-la-sana" (apple) and "tse-nill" (axe) all stood for the letter "a." One way to say the word "Navy" in Navajo code would be "tsah (needle) wol-la-chee (ant) ah-keh-di- glini (victor) tsah-ah-dzoh (yucca)."

Most letters had more than one Navajo word representing them. Not all words had to be spelled out letter by letter. The developers of the original code assigned Navajo words to represent about 450 frequently used military terms that did not exist in the Navajo language. Several examples: "besh- lo" (iron fish) meant "submarine," "dah-he- tih-hi" (hummingbird) meant "fighter plane" and "debeh-li-zine" (black street) meant "squad."

224 posted on 05/20/2002 6:56:20 PM PDT by Bogey78O
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To: Aggie Mama; marajade; all
This will disappoint alot of you, but 'The Jar-Jargonizer' is temporarily out of service.

The 'Star Wars Name Generator' is working and so is a completely unrelated 'Dialectizer' just for fun.

4fr Rechi Modregal of Etodolac wishes 'The Force' be with you all. ;^)

225 posted on 05/20/2002 7:17:50 PM PDT by 4Freedom
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To: 4Freedom
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226 posted on 05/20/2002 8:18:44 PM PDT by Bogey78O
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To: 4Freedom
I would translate democraticunderground into Moron but the webmaster already beat me to it.
227 posted on 05/20/2002 8:22:00 PM PDT by Bogey78O
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To: one_particular_harbour
Oh the pain of it all!!!! You cacophanous collussion of cogs and coils!
228 posted on 05/20/2002 8:28:04 PM PDT by Bogey78O
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To: Bogey78O
"Hoo-yah. Fry mah hide!"

I just might have to try running some of Jar-Jar Bink's lines through the 'Dialectizer' to see what happens.

LOL.

229 posted on 05/20/2002 9:18:57 PM PDT by 4Freedom
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To: 4Freedom
I've seen it four times now and it gets better after each subsequent viewing. I cannot wait for the DVD... I love it! Its too bad he lost some after TPM because AOTC is really good and its feels like SW.
230 posted on 05/20/2002 9:43:05 PM PDT by marajade
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To: MJM59
Jar Jar reminded me of Shaggy from the Scooby Doo cartoons. Check out the way they walk.

That's a good comparison. When I first saw him, my thought was that he was a SW rendition of Gilligan.

231 posted on 05/20/2002 11:25:19 PM PDT by BradyLS
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To: TheLurkerX
I guess I'm prejudiced because the original movies were aimed at a more adult audience, but kids loved them. With Episode 1, he aimed it squarely at kids, and turned off a lot of the adults. I think he hit the mark again with Episode II.

The first two (4 and 5) were probably geared more towards (young) adults, but ROTJ (6) went straight for the kiddie jugular. TPM (1) was also a huge kiddie flick, though I actually enjoyed it more than AoTC (2) on many levels.

On Star Wars, I am certain of only two things: 1) Kids love the movies and 2) adults love to overanalyze them.

232 posted on 05/20/2002 11:41:43 PM PDT by BradyLS
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To: 4Freedom
There's enough 'Star Wars' material in existence to make more than 100 films. That others want to steal some of those ideas and do so isn't that surprising. What's surprising is that Lucas is then accused of stealing the ideas back.

Good point. People had been feeding off Lucas' films for years before coming back to make more films. Then when he dips from his own well and people cry "Plagarism! Rip-off!"

The sad thing is that with the last two films, Lucas pushed the bounds of movie-making by creating and rendering his backgrounds and sets digitally. It's not new to have digital effects, but his company, ILM, keeps pioneering the effects that are used and broadening the tasks for which such effects are used. No one notices this.

Another sad thing is that NO ONE even remarks on the music that John Williams has created for this series anymore. Apart from the effects, it is one of the facets of these films that is consistent in its excellence. His music is the mortar that holds these movies together and hardly anyone cares.

233 posted on 05/20/2002 11:54:18 PM PDT by BradyLS
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To: BradyLS
Not me! I love the music, and I see it as an absolutely essential plot device. What I especially loved in AOTC was the Imperial March making it's debut. Really neat. =)
234 posted on 05/21/2002 5:37:39 AM PDT by Aggie Mama
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FWIW, I just got back from viewing episode 2. I thought it was quite entertaining. Sure some of the dialogue was pretty ridiculous. That puts it right in the mode of the original 3 movies. The visuals were fantastic. It was interesting to see the plot developing towards episode 4. I never saw episode 1 on the big screen, but I think this one was quite a bit stronger. I will want to see episode 3, now.
235 posted on 05/21/2002 10:11:16 PM PDT by -YYZ-
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To: codebreaker
Amazing that the Left cries that the Maori actor playing Jango Fett, New Zealand accent and all, is a poor role model for the Latin community. Reminds me of the whole upset the Left had over The Penguin being a stereotypical Jew in the second Batman movie.

Let's face it, the PC Gestapo walk into theaters looking for something to hate and Lucas has been in their cross hairs since the original came out. I'm surprised that they didn't accuse Lucas of trying to incite a race war when Mace offs Jango!
236 posted on 05/21/2002 10:34:15 PM PDT by BradyLS
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