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yes lucas has failed us strangely with the last 2, and i blame it squarely on the narcotic of computers, but that is neither here nor there ....if he had been sitting in front of me, i might have been tempted to ask him in a THX-1138 voice : "What's Wrong ?"
but to add to exador's sentiment / statement ///
the late 70's in america was a euphoric, naive, golden existence. it was a glorious time.
to me, it's as if star wars represents a time when this country's imagination was still sort of unfettered.
when the world's imagination in fact was "pre-star wars"
when there were no computers, really.
(oddly: star wars coincides with the rise of the computer)
& while you could argue it is only a movie, it is sort of a testement to the consciousness, the sort of fragile visual taste of the human species.
on a darker note, star wars also confirms the existence of evil in the universe and in some ways is analogous to life in this world today.
CNN : "wacky Bush administration-Star Wars analogy starring Dick Cheney as Darth Vader.
Columnist Maureen Dowd explains that Bush is Luke Skywalker, and "he has the good father, who is his own dad, who believed in internationalism and the Atlantic alliance and doing things with the allies and coalitions. And then you have the bad, dark father, Darth Vader, which is Dick Cheney, and he sort of led the president down this gloomy, dark, paranoid path of unilateralism and sort of bullying the world."
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