Cultural Left Assaults Star Wars

CNSNews.com ^ | May 23, 2002 | C.T. Rossi

[Snuffington]

Pretty funny stuff. Liberals racing so far to the left that even other liberals begin to look like racist white extremists to them. George Lucas as a Reaganite? Not exactly. But from that far out in left field, it's hard to make out the details.

[kaylar]

Cuella's theory rests on the premise that the character Jango Fett is the allegorical representation of Hispanics in Lucas' myth-based world. The only problem is that Fett is played by Temuera Morrison, a New Zealander of Maori descent. This, ironically, places Cuella in the same camp as white racists who see all dark-skinned people as some monolithic threat. Mexican or Maori really doesn't seem matter when you are trying to expose The Great White Lucas Conspiracy.

I once watched a movie where the heavies were a 7 foot tall, monstrous race clad in glowing green fur. They also had fangs and claws.

At least one review that I read described this monsters disparagingly as "obvious Negro stereotypes." (This was in 1980, so Negro, capitalized, was still the polite and 'scientific' term.)

No logic will make an impression on a reviewer desperate to show how sensitive s/he is. If they can look at a 7 foot glowing green monster and see a black man, why not see Latinos in Lucas' creations?

[ravingnutter]

My first reaction was that these people really need to get a life...or go on meds.

[Wm Bach]

I think the left would love to drag Lucas's head around a stadium like the hapless C3PO, for daring to state the obvious - that free republics become rights-depriving empires with the people's consent, due to their desire for "security". The need for more security of course, being a direct result of the empire's centralization and overreach.

The Libs don't want the unwashed masses to figure out that the push for World Government might entail a ramp to a slaughterhouse for the "unnecessary people".

I thought it was the best installment of the Star Wars franchise.

[Cincinatus]

Yes, well that's one way to look at it. Here's another:

The Case for the Empire.

[Lil'freeper]

The Libs have obviously missed the fact that the backdrop of these stories is a multicultural utopia populated by species from thousands of worlds more or less getting along with one another. Gotta love how libs devour their own.

[joebuck]

"Atkinson further derides the movie as "irrelevant preadolescent dreaming" in a review which seems consumed with an unfulfilled sexual appetite."

What an idiot. Lucas has always explained that Star Wars is INTENDED to be "irrelevant preadolescent dreaming". The series started as Lucas' version of the old "irrelevant preadolescent" movie serials he enjoyed as a child. Obvoiusly the viewing public has very much enjoyed this "irrelevant preadolescent dreaming". Star Wars has never claimed or sought to be anything else. To criticize a film and director for being exactly what was intended is disingenuous. It's pretty obvious that this reviewer's problem isn't with this movie, it's with the whole "star wars" thing in general. The writer just doesn't have the guts, or intellectual honesty, to admit it.

[steve-b]

If they can look at a 7 foot glowing green monster and see a black man

I suspect that they spent most of the 1960s looking at men (of whatever color) and seeing 7 foot glowing green monsters.

[N. Theknow]

My first reaction was that these people really need to get a life...or go on meds.

My first reaction was that the only way they would praise the movie was if it had a far-right-wing conservative Christian Fundamentalist Republican CIA/FBI/NSA clone on the grassy knoll.

[Enterprise]

"Wayne State University history professor Jose Cuella is hypothesizing that Lucas has it in for Latinos."

Well if he has it in for Latino's, then he is off the scale when it comes to Whites. Evidently it escapes the attention (or lack of) the leftist manureheads that the people who are the most evil, and who are the brutally cruel driving force behind the coming war, chaos, and the deaths of millions - are WHITE?

[Enterprise]

My thoughts exactly. These people need to get real jobs, or go somewhere and get quietly drunk. What a bunch of nutcases.

[Brett66]

I think I now like this movie even more.

[Wrigley]

And what color is the soon to be evil clone army's uniform.

[Wm Bach]

He makes a weak case for empire. A federation of smaller republics is still the best model. Smaller central government, power returned to the states, local decisions made at the local level...you know, Reaganism.

[Enterprise]

I can't imagine just what in hell the libs want here! Do they expect Princess Leia or Senator Amidala to do strip teases and jump into bed with all the different aliens? Can't a story be told of women and men who are part of a grand sweeping adventure without assuming they are promiscuous, or that somehow, they are supposed to be? You're right - what MISERABLE PATHETIC IDIOTS!

[Enterprise]

"And what color is the soon to be evil clone army's uniform."

Omigoshgagmewithalightsabre - WHITE! There must be some kind of racist message here.

[Phantom Lord]

My first reaction was that these people really need to get a life...or go on meds.

Same with the losers who lined up a month in advance to see Star Wars.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

One possible positive result of these ridiculous PC attacks on Lucas might be his becomming more alienated from the left extremists. As shown on the thread about his banning CNN from his properties because of Connie Chung spouting this sort of nonsense, he is starting to get annoyed by this stuff. If he discovers that he is in the same foxhole as the right, he may decide that other leftist ideas are no more credible than their attacks on him.