"Is new ‘Star Wars’ an anti-Bush flick?"

[dbonds]

"By Jeannette Walls
MSNBC
Updated: 11:03 a.m. ET May 17, 2005

While “Star Wars” fans squabble over whether “Revenge of the Sith” contains any anti-Bush messages, one central figure has weighed in on the debate: Hayden Christensen, the actor who plays Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader.

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When the Ottawa Sun asked Christensen if the flick “takes metaphoric shots at the war-mongering politics of U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and the two George Bushes” the star answered: “Absolutely.” "


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7750917/

[ConfuZed]

1. Lucas is going to make a killing if it is :D n/t

[jobycom]

5. We'll know if Michael Moore makes a guest appearance as a Hut

Sorry, Michael, but comedy is not pretty.

[whistle]

2. That's what the White House is saying apparently....

...I'll let you know when I go see the film this week.

[NYCGirl]

3. Lucas said it was written well before Iraq, though. NT

[jobycom]

4. Lucas uses prototypical caricatures of good versus evil

And Bush and his crew fit the prottypical image of evil perfectly, so yes and no.

On edit: should have said "archetypical" since Lucas was reportedly into Jung and Campbell when he created the story.

[rinsd]

15. Yup. (nt)

[PST]

6. if the shoe fits n/t

[ck4829]

7. Yes. That's why I want to see it.

A phony war - The current situation today

This situation is being manipulated by the man 'fighting' it - The Clone Wars vs. The War on Terra

It is my belief that General Grievous is the personification of the Neo-Conservative Movement

There are many others, this will be an excellent movie.

[w13rd0]

10. Greivous...

...I don't know about that. Grievous is a pawn, a sickly pawn hated by the Sith that use him. Perhaps that is how BushCheney view the neocons, but I think it's more likely that Cheney/Rumsfeld/neocons view Bush as the sickly hated pawn, a useful idiot to them. So technically, Bush, for me, fits the General Grievous character better. He's utterly dispensible, vile, and his voice grates upon ones nerves. But I don't think there are any real one to one correspondences, but as mentioned above, overall archtypes.

[JHB]

8. It's about a descent into Evil. If the shoe fits...

...then Cinderella spells her name with a W.

[leftofthedial]

9. anything that provokes intelligent thought

or expresses any sort of positive human virtue

is anti-bushturd

[theboss]

11. The French would find an anti-Bush message in "Blazing Saddles"

It's a Star Wars film; all characters speak in cliches. Bush speaks in cliches. I mean, there you go.

I'm still as giddy as a school girl.

[dbonds]

12. "Blazing Saddles"

Hmmm, would that be in the farting scene? (or was that in "Paint your Wagon" I get those two confused sometimes).

[NYCGirl]

13. LOL! No "Paint Your Wagon" is the film where Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood

sing. It only sounds like farting.
:evilgrin:

[Guitarman]

14. Only if youu watch it...

with you free republic special paranoia glasses on. Geez. Those folks would watch Rocky and Bullwinke and find an anti Bush message.