May 16, 2005

See, I Told You He'd Jumped The Jawa

Lucas on Iraq war, 'Star Wars'

"Star Wars" director George Lucas says that although he wrote the original film during the Vietnam War, his six-part saga could apply to the war in Iraq.

''In terms of evil, one of the original concepts was how does a democracy turn itself into a dictatorship,'' Lucas told a news conference at Cannes, where his final episode had its world premiere.

''The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we're doing in Iraq now are unbelievable.

Can't it just be a fun movie, George? [sigh] Is that too much to ask? What happened to the guy who said he didn't make his movies to be messages? I think it was in "Skywalking", but there was a quote there that was something about how much he hated movie makers bashing thier audience over the head with a "message". I know we've all gotten a bit [cough] older, but geez!

Posted by Ithildin at May 16, 2005 8:26 AM | PROCURE FINE OLD WORLD ABSINTHE

well, he does go on to point out that there are recurring themes in the history of every democracy. I have to give him credit for that one.

However, George isn't a good enough writer to have come up with the parallel and included it. Someone else thought of it after seeing the movie and he jumped on the bandwagon.

At least we won't have any post-jawa-jumping new movies...

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Posted by: J. Mark English at May 16, 2005 10:26 AM

Since Ith is too polite a host to point this out, Mr. English, are you aware of the concept of "thread-jacking"? It's considered rude, no matter noble a cause you might be promoting your comment totally unrelated to the post.

Now, let's get back to bashing George Lucas.

Posted by: Dave J at May 16, 2005 8:50 PM

Dave, your'e such a gentleman!

Posted by: Ith at May 17, 2005 6:17 PM