Monday, May 16, 2005
 
Who's Worse, the Fool or the Fool Who Badmouths His Country in France?
Picture this text scrolling up the screen before Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith:
    Lucas, speaking to reporters, emphasised that the original "Star Wars" was written at the end of the Vietnam war, when Richard Nixon was U.S. president, but that the issue being explored was still very much alive today.

    "The issue was, how does a democracy turn itself into a dictatorship?" he said.

    "When I wrote it, Iraq (the U.S.-led war) didn't exist... but the parallels of what we did in Vietnam and Iraq are unbelievable."

    He acknowledged an uncomfortable feeling that the United States was in danger of losing its democratic ideals, like in the movie.

    "I didn't think it was going to get this close. I hope this doesn't come true in our country."

- posted by Brian J. @ 7:26 AM
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