So obvious that the producers of the dreadful Excalibur went to extraordinary lengths to telegraph the similarities when that stinker hit the screen. If they could get it, anybody could.
--Boris
After some thought, I have determined the following...
Whatever you choose, you have WAY too much time on your hands.
- You make too much money and have too much time on your hands;
- You are a loser who can't get a date have and too much time on your hands; or,
- You still live at home sucking off of your parent's teat and have too much time on your hands
Luke Sywalker = Dorothy
Obi Wan = The Wizard
Darth = A flying monkey
Palantine = The Wicked Witch
That Gold Robot (whatzisname=the Tin Woodman"
R2D2= The Scarecrow or Toto, not sure which yet
Hans Solo=The Cowardly Lion
Jabba the Hut= the mean apple throwing trees
[[pffffffftt]] ... "Ahhhh... Far out, dude. And Obi Wan Kenobe is John Wilkes Booth while the Wookie is President Grant."
At the end when the evil Jedi is landing on the planet, did anyone else notice what looked to be the New York skyline with the twin towers in place. It appeared for about 5 seconds.
Is that old news?
Somehow, the Emporer tricks Anakin into turning on the Jedi. My guess is that he convinces Anakin that the Jedi are responsible for Amidala's death. I believe her death will involve Anakin heeding Obi Wan's advice to "continue with the mission" like he did in Episode II when she fell from the shuttle but survived. This time, she ain't so lucky.
Anakin then proceeds to help wipe out the Jedi. All with the exception of Mace Windu who is beheaded by Boba Fett, just as Windu did to Fett's father in Episode II.
Anakin then discovers that he was tricked by the emporer and that he is really the Sith Lord Darth Sidious. The two then have the now cliched light sabre duel (what else?). During the fight, Darth Sidious' arm gets severed to reveal a mechanical arm. Just like Anakin and Luke. Anakin then is horrified to discover that Sidious is really his father and he invites Anakin to rule the galaxy with him as father and son. And unlike when Vader makes the same offer to Luke in The Empire Strikes Back and is rejected, Anakin accepts and completes his surrender to the Dark Side.
The surviving Jedi (Obi Wan and Yoda) at some point prior to this realize that Anakin's children must be spirited away so they can not be turned to the dark side. I suspect that they fake their deaths somehow. Leia of course is placed with the Royal Family and Luke is brought to Tatooine to live with Anakin's half brother ("They're good people. You'll be safe here" he tells Amidala in Episode II).
The final scene of the movie will be a shot of the Skywalker farm on Tatooine from afar where you'll see a young Luke Skywalker playing outside. The camera will pan back to reveal that we are watching the scene thru the eyes of Obi Wan Kenobi from a distant plateau. And thats how it will all end. With the slight hope for the fate of the rebellion in the form of this young boy, under the watchful eye of the last of the Jedi.
Is slavery really gone or has everyone been reduced, both economically and socially, to the same level as slaves?
History is a matter of facts and documents, causation and consequences. One would hope that it involves something more than just its author's imagination.
Art is supposed to have more than one meaning. Reducing it to one meaning or one-on-one correspondences of characters in the text to those outside of it, cheapens and oversimplifies it. Entertainment may not have even one meaning, but when art or entertainment have one clear telegraphed meaning, they become propaganda.
It's curious that the author assumed that the movies were "all about" the Weimar Republic first. Then he goes into all this Civil War trivia. The article and the movie contribute nothing to our understanding of the Civil War. I could show you that "Gone With The Wind" and "The Birth of A Nation," "Roots" and "Glory," "North and South" and "Ride with the Devil" also have uncanny and ominous parallels to the American Civil War, but that doesn't mean that the interpretation of the war you can get out of them corresponds to what actually happened. Whether Rogers's article contributes anything to our understanding of the movie or to anything else in life is another matter. But it seems to leave the Lucas epic looking smaller, and less significant rather than bigger and more important.
The author feels compelled to manipulate both history and the movie to fit his scheme. In the end, what is it all for? If George Lucas is Johnny Reb, what does that tell us except that Lucas's creative imagination has gotten into a rut? If Rogers is right, Lucas hasn't created something living but an empty, paint-by-numbers allegory, that we wouldn't be any poorer without.
I think the GAR was the VFW of the day. It was made up of Union veterans.
Walt
Palpatine is Jeff Davis, who exerts unchecked power (Lincoln still worked in a democracy). The Jedi were not really split in Star Wars: those who were already evil did not call themselves "Jedi," and the Jedi fought for right and justice (i.e., the Union). Only when the dark side got ahold of Jedi did they kill people. But if you look closely at the EARLIER trilogy, it is clear that Darth Vader (Robert E. Lee?) kept slaves (he enslaved, for example, the Wookie race). Indeed, in "Clones," it is the BAD GUYS who employ a virtual "slave" army of robots, whereas the clones themselves, if I understood the dialogue, had free will.
The "dark side" also constantly seeks to obtain support from the trade federation---Great Britain and France---to defeat Lincoln and the Republic.
And Lincoln is Obi Wan, who has learned from his mistakes and becomes wise, only to be struck down by the evil dark side. Don't get carried away with the term "rebel."
Moreover, only the bad guys "resign" from the Republic---and the bad guys in Star Wars are truly evil.
Darth, Doku, and others employ mercenaries such as Boba Fett to fight---like Quantrill's Raiders and the James Gang.
Now, Luke IS REAGAN---a natural descendant of LINCOLN, not JEFFERSON---and he stands against the forces of darkness, the "Evil Emperor" in the form of the Soviet dictators, all of whom looked exactly like Palpatine.
Luke, fighting for the same rights as Lincoln---that they apply to all races---resists the "evil empire" which is always looking for the "ultimate weapon." But Luke/Reagan employs common sense ("wouldn't it be better to build a shield than a sword") and the force (God). The good Jedi always have God on their side---the dark side do not. Thus, although Doku and Darth can wield exceptional power, it is not ultimate power. And salvation is brought through a Son.
You can't stretch this to make it fit the Confederacy---a true "evil empire" that enslaved its population, and which had by all accounts FAR worse violations of civil rights than Lincoln imagined. (The North, for ex., never confiscated ALL the goods of a region like the South impressed cotton; even Lincoln's civil rights violations were subject to Supreme Court review---but the COnfed. had none; and as political scientist Richard Bensel, in his study of 150separate comparisons of North and South found, the Confed was FAR more destructive of both human rights and property rights than the north. But that's the "evil empire" for ya.
Regards, Ivan
Anakin, having married, leaves the Jedi and is taken under Chancellor Palpatine's wing. Palpatine is covertly helping the rebellion to justify his power grab, and Anakin becomes his hatchet man. Obi-wan sees Palpatine for what he is and joins Dooku, leaving/getting kicked out of the Jedi to do so. The resulting rift destroys the Jedi, with its members hunted down and killed by either Dooku and Kenobi or Skywalker and Palpatine, depending on which side they take. Kenobi and Skywalker have a climactic battle which results in Skywalker's injuries, and his having to wear his breathing apparatus.