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thoughts on lucas
Jul. 8th, 2010 07:37 pm*reading the latest Charlie Stross novel* wheee, lovecraftian horrors and mention of Forteana!
Otherwise I'm mixing "Dr Who" and Star Wars, an interesting combination. Rewatching "Attack of the Clones", I can tell it was made before nine-eleven: Amidala's firm belief in pacifism and the film's message that peace is what good guys do (never mind explosive heroics) would never ever have worked in a film made just a year later. Even now those passages sound wrong, because we've been bombarded with propaganda that war is good if the good guys say so and we must smite back at those who would oppose us.
Also, in the "Clone Wars" series there are little words of wisdom at the beginning of each episode; one of them was that compromise can be good. This you never ever hear in Hollywood propaganda either. Compromise is always made out as something evil and smelly, that pinko leftists or atheists engage in (ew).
Food for thought when criticising the Lucasfilm juggernaut.
Otherwise I'm mixing "Dr Who" and Star Wars, an interesting combination. Rewatching "Attack of the Clones", I can tell it was made before nine-eleven: Amidala's firm belief in pacifism and the film's message that peace is what good guys do (never mind explosive heroics) would never ever have worked in a film made just a year later. Even now those passages sound wrong, because we've been bombarded with propaganda that war is good if the good guys say so and we must smite back at those who would oppose us.
Also, in the "Clone Wars" series there are little words of wisdom at the beginning of each episode; one of them was that compromise can be good. This you never ever hear in Hollywood propaganda either. Compromise is always made out as something evil and smelly, that pinko leftists or atheists engage in (ew).
Food for thought when criticising the Lucasfilm juggernaut.
