The story being told this week was written over 30 years ago, as Lucas has explained. This establishes first the generally agreeable premise that it’s right to overthrow oppressive government, before bringing into focus something more discomforting that the corrupt tyranny referred to is our own. This cold desperation comes as no surprise, but it also strengthens my appreciation of Lucas’ decision to make episodes IV, V, and VI before I, II, and the now-completed III. Some neocons have expressed their dismay that the new Star Wars movie seems so antiwar, saying it was perhaps even rewritten as an anti-Bush diatribe. This really came out of the Vietnam era and the parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we’re doing in Iraq now are unbelievable.”
We were going after Iran, using as our surrogate just as we were doing in Vietnam. We were just funding Saddam Hussein, giving him weapons of mass destruction we didn’t think of him as an enemy at that point. Just like in the real world.īefore the movie was even released, people began making the connection between the war on terror and Vader’s declaration near the end of Revenge of the Sith, “You are either with me or you are my enemy.” Lucas, however, when asked if this was a reference to the War on Terror, said at the Cannes film festival, “When I wrote it, Iraq didn’t exist. What were the Clone Wars? How did the Old Republic become the Empire? How could the emperor have defeated what were presumably thousands of Jedi and taken over the galaxy? Many of us grew up on Star Wars, and some of us, as 10-year-olds on rainy Saturday afternoons, even spent time trying to piece together the story before the story. Listen to Scott’s interview with Mark Thornton “This is how liberty dies: with thundering applause.”
“For a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic.
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