Lucas hopes Star Wars final epic will wake up US to democracy in peril

FINAL STAR WARS BEARS MESSAGE FOR AMERICA:
LUCAS WINS FESTIVAL TROPHY – AND HOPES HIS EPIC WILL AWAKEN US TO DEMOCRACY IN PERIL

The Guardian (5/16/05) Cannes -- The republic is crumbling under attack from alien forces. Democracy is threatened as the leader plays on the people's paranoia. Amid the confusion it is suddenly unclear whether the state is in more danger from insurgents, or from the leader himself.
It sounds more like a Michael Moore polemic than a Star Wars movie. But George Lucas, speaking as his latest epic was given its world premiere at Cannes yesterday, confirmed that Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, could be read as a parable about American politics…
http://film.guardian.co.uk/cannes2005/story/0,15927,1484795,00.html

then I hope it works and more power (force) to it!

Sadly, this country needs to be "entertained" and if a movie like Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith (and the whole series) is what does it, great! We need to wake people and if a fictional futuristic movie does it, right on....

.... is way real.

Check it out:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3699246&mesg_id=3699246

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Be it MNA Day 4 or 8 or 15 or .... the day will come when 10s of millions of Americans and others stop their typical activities for 24 hours and urge 10 times that many to join should another MNA Day be required. On that glorious day what we once called "America" will emerge.

movie or its message. Even more likely they will be spending their days trying to pay their bills and keep body and soul together like everyone else. Sorry George you are taking yourself a bit too seriously.

>>>"It will be interesting to see what happens in 10 years when the younger group has grown older."<<<

a Star Wars movie is going to convince any of the freepers the evil of their ways. In fact one of my freeper buddies actually thought that Ep III backed up the conservative view.

Having Anikin say "If you're not with me, you're my enemy" is just lousy scriptwriting - hamhanded and false.

And if he wanted to shine a light on what is going on in America, he would have had to have skipped Palpatine declaring a "New Empire" and had him continue the charade of democracy while continue to slowly tighten the grip of totalitarianism so slowly that the people don't realize they're being choked until it's already too late.

That's what's happening in America.

Having Palpatine openly declare an undemocratic "Empire" lets right-wingers and dullards rationalize to themselves that this film is nothing like America, because we're "still a democracy".

As long as we call ourselves that, it's true in their minds...

I thought that line sounded like how an evil person would talk.

If it gets people talking about Bush's lies and looking for the truth it's still good, because when people see what horrible things are being done in their name and how the administration is swindling the average ( under $250,000 a year ) taxpaying American.... that's what is good about it. Lifting the taboo for the rest of America until everyone is out there saying,

" :wtf: I want my country back!! "

although the Religious Wrong may only pick up the message about the fallen Angel, The rapture and Genesis. The dark force vs. the right force.

Let us just pray that they get that political message too!