George Lucas Is A Moron
Tuesday, May 17th, 2005Apparently, George Lucas thinks George W. Bush is the current-day equivalent of Darth Vader:
“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.”
Unbelieveable, indeed.
Arthur Chrenkoff manages to correct Mr. Lucas in an open letter:
Like the Western movie goers, we too cheered when the Death Star was destroyed (twice), but whereas for our counterparts in the Free World this was just a great cinematic climax, for us it embodied the hope (“A New Hope”, if you pardon the pun) that one day the specter of totalitarianism will vanish and we will be free again.
Apparently, however, we were wrong – we didn’t read your movies correctly.
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Yes, we were very wrong indeed – to you, the Empire was the United States of America, and if that’s the case, then the brave rebels could only be all those people around the world fighting the American Empire – the Castros, Che Guevaras, Ho Chi Minhs, Pol Pots, and by extension, the Brezhnevs and the Mao Tse Tungs of this world. You, of course, live in the Free World, and as such you have the right to believe that your country is the most powerful force for evil operating in the world. But just for the sake of completeness and historical accuracy, can I just mention that whatever the sins of the United States – and I certainly understand well enough that no country is perfect – your rebels, both when fighting for power and when finally in power, ended up being responsible for the death of tens of millions and enslavement of hundreds of millions; the Luke Skywalkers and Han Solos of the last century gave us gulags and re-education camps, terror famines and political prisons; they institutionalized cults of personality, stifled every human freedom and impoverished whole nations.
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