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1 posted on 05/23/2002 5:52:39 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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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.
3 posted on 05/23/2002 6:01:06 AM PDT by Snuffington
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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?

4 posted on 05/23/2002 6:05:02 AM PDT by kaylar
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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.

6 posted on 05/23/2002 6:08:56 AM PDT by Wm Bach
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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.
8 posted on 05/23/2002 6:17:25 AM PDT by Lil'freeper
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"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.

9 posted on 05/23/2002 6:17:43 AM PDT by joebuck
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"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?

12 posted on 05/23/2002 6:19:34 AM PDT by Enterprise
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I think I now like this movie even more.
14 posted on 05/23/2002 6:21:12 AM PDT by Brett66
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22 posted on 05/23/2002 6:38:22 AM PDT by Phantom Lord
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this is the best endorsement of the movie i can think of.
no joke.

i'm definitely going to see it in the theater now.

28 posted on 05/23/2002 6:43:28 AM PDT by galt-jw
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The masses are counted as besotted when they vote for Reagan or listen to conservative talk radio....

Or when they buy cars with tail fins.
29 posted on 05/23/2002 6:43:51 AM PDT by aruanan
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i'll make a point of seeing this movie - SEVERAL TIMES!!
30 posted on 05/23/2002 6:44:14 AM PDT by ZULU
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"the American moviegoing public will line up out of habit and compulsion . . .". True to form, when the unwashed masses deviate from the tastes of elite media (the supposed champions of people) they are branded as lemmings.

So true. Remember what junk won Best Picture just a couple of years ago?

Shakespear in Love

Now, I have nothing against William Shakespear, nor the concept of love. In fact, I fancy both quite a bit. But this "un filme" should not have been voted dogcatcher....especially when the movie that should have won that year was this!

But you know what? Many voting members of the Academy admitted they never even watched Spielburg's Saving Private Ryan! They wanted "Love", not "War."

Hey, the STAR WARS pictures may not be perfect, but I'll watch 'em three times each before I ever go see another movie that these elites love, like The English Patient.

37 posted on 05/23/2002 6:52:29 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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Salon.com, The Village Voice, The New York Slimes, The Toronto Globe & *Mail*, & the coup de gras...Wayne State University (& some faculty clown by the name of, Jose Cuella!)??
Oh yeaaaaaaa!

They're kidding, right?
They are kidding...right?
The Left truely is dead; deader than a doornail.
Only, interestingly enough?
They don't know it; &, no major dude's stepped up to tell 'em yet, either.

"Critic Rick Groen of the Toronto Globe and Mail makes Lucas-bashing a North American venture as he warns with true haughty elitism that you should not turn to Lucas 'if you happen to belong to that tiny minority whose idea of fun...lies in a story with depth and characters with complexity and a theme with meaning...'"

Oh.
OKey Dokey, *Rick*.
We should turn to you then, eh?
BWWWWAHAAAAAA!!!!
~groaaaaaann~ or is that, groennnn; either way, it's a wash.
"The Toronto Globe and Mail," huh.

"While being politically left-leaning, George Lucas is learning firsthand the secret power behind the dark side of liberals..."

Uh-huh...*feeeeel* the hate, George!!!
Let it escape you & the *transformation* will be coMMMMPLLLeeeeTe.

"But now, after a series of hit movies, an empire of successful spin-off companies and a legion of devoted followers, Lucas has become just another middle-aged, rich, white-man enemy."

Yea-yea; that's how the *script* the Socialist-Liberals have wrote for poor George is looking, eh?
He should never have have deviated from their utopian social engineering formula!!
Nope; he done went back to the *Old School* mentality for making motion pictures being a function of entertainment based on fantacy & fiction.
For his HIGH crime, Lucas shall be damned; but-good.

"Like one of his embattled Jedi characters, movie magician George Lucas is under assault."

Still?
It's kinda refreshing in a strange kinda way to be seeing this guy cannibalized -- & not *just* by one of his own kind -- but, by part of a beast he helped create.
How's it *feeeeeeeel*, George?
Maybe a *tad* like being mugged, or worse yet, raped?
Well!!
That's *OK* Big Guy; it happens to us all, ~on the Right.

...& sooner rather than later; more, rather than less. ;^)

41 posted on 05/23/2002 7:02:25 AM PDT by Landru
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Bump for later reading. Episode II was awesome IMHO.
46 posted on 05/23/2002 7:14:05 AM PDT by oc-flyfish
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"Cuella's theory rests on the premise that the character Jango Fett is the allegorical representation of Hispanics in Lucas' myth-based world... "

Up until Episode II, the features of Bobba Fett were hidden in a helmet. By episode VI, he's at least as old as Obi Wan Kenobi, and quite agile. The clones featured in Episode II are not drunken, womanizing, ranchero music playing farm laborers, so where is the resemblance to the hispanic Lucas would encounter in his world of California central valley Modesto?

52 posted on 05/23/2002 7:38:55 AM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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The critic, David Thompson, mocks the on-screen love affair as "early '50s" where the love-struck protagonists "start talking about love and marriage - those classic parental alternatives to desire and pleasure."

Wow, has anyone ever before stated the American Left's condescending moral philosophy so succinctly?

58 posted on 05/23/2002 7:49:36 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves
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Ha ha! This article is too rich. I've always said there's a Star Wars quote for every situation in life, and my favorite one lately has been the one Sam Jackson said in EP II: "This Party Is Over" One could say that about the left.
73 posted on 05/23/2002 8:43:45 AM PDT by Darth Dan
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75 posted on 05/23/2002 9:07:14 AM PDT by Jack Bull
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Lucas is still a virgin LOL how do they know this...
81 posted on 05/23/2002 10:11:35 AM PDT by weikel
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Politics has nothing to do with the disappointing prequel movies. Lucas has lost his ear for dialogue and can't direct actors well (witness wooden performances by otherwise good actors). As for this Hispanic stuff ... what BS!
84 posted on 05/23/2002 10:34:42 AM PDT by Polonius
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