'Star Wars' exerts force in earthly politics

[norml]

'Star Wars' exerts force in earthly politics

By Steve Gorman
Reuters
Tuesday, May 24, 2005; 4:35 PM

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A year after Michael Moore weighed into the 2004 presidential campaign with "Fahrenheit 9/11," both sides of America's partisan divide are debating the political messages of a far different movie -- "Star Wars."

Even before it opened in theaters last week, some observers were drawing unflattering parallels between the story of interplanetary treachery in "Star Wars: 'Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith" and the Bush administration's war on terror and its decision to invade Iraq.

"Star Wars" creator George Lucas has insisted that his themes of corrupted democracy and the rise of a fear-mongering tyrant were outlined decades ago, informed by Watergate and the Vietnam era, as well as Hitler's rise to power, rather than today's politics.

But that has not stopped liberals and conservatives alike from reading anti-Bush metaphors into the film and its dialogue.





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[caty]

1. "So this is how liberty dies.

With thunderous applause". That's how our's died, with the applause of the ignorant right.:dunce:

[stellanoir]

2. If the shoe frigging fits. . .

[Tux]

3. It's true

Star Wars is about how liberty dies and is reborn.

Obi-Wan: "Anakin, my allegiance is to the Republic... to democracy."

He was right, we need to be for democracy at all times. If we fail, future generations will live in fear, tyranny, and ignorance. Fight for freedom or freeom dies.

[TexasLawyer]

4. And didn't the evil Chancellor look a lot like

Karl Rove-- puffy, anemic, beady-eyed and dripping with evil ??!!!