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"Revenge of the Sith"... Subversive!?
From the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/05/16/BL2005051600615.html
The Punditocracy is already throwing a massive ***-fit all over TV, decrying it as a poisonous anti-Bush polemic ("Attack of the Rush Limbaugh Clones"?). Personally, up until now I really didn't give a rat's ass about the new "Star Wars" movie, but if smoke is billowing out of the ears of these partisan hack douchebags he must have done something right this time. And here I was thinking that Romero's "Land of the Dead" was going to be the only subversive mainstream movie this summer.
Cheers,
B
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/05/16/BL2005051600615.html
The Punditocracy is already throwing a massive ***-fit all over TV, decrying it as a poisonous anti-Bush polemic ("Attack of the Rush Limbaugh Clones"?). Personally, up until now I really didn't give a rat's ass about the new "Star Wars" movie, but if smoke is billowing out of the ears of these partisan hack douchebags he must have done something right this time. And here I was thinking that Romero's "Land of the Dead" was going to be the only subversive mainstream movie this summer.
Cheers,
B
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html [nq:1]The Punditocracy is already throwing a massive ***-fit all overTV, decrying it as a poisonous anti-Bush polemic ("Attack of the ... was thinking that Romero's "Land of the Dead" was going tobe the only subversive mainstream movie this summer. Cheers, B[/nq] It only goes to show (yet again) how knee-jerk this sort of reaction is.
- html [nq:1]The Punditocracy is already throwing a massive ***-fit all overTV, decrying it as a poisonous anti-Bush polemic ("Attack of the ...
- was thinking that Romero's "Land of the Dead" was going tobe the only subversive mainstream movie this summer.
- Cheers, B[/nq] It only goes to show (yet again) how knee-jerk this sort of reaction is.
- Lucas himself has been talking all along, in respect to this trilogy that it was specifically about how, historically, democracies tend to self-destruct and become dictatorships.
- I mean, after all way back in the first trilogy there were the Jedi Knights back in the days of The Republic* before the Dark Times before *The Empire so clearly, this has to be about how the Republic ends up turning into an Empire.
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[nq:1]From the Washington Post:[/nq]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/05/16/BL2005051600615.html
[nq:1]The Punditocracy is already throwing a massive ***-fit all overTV, decrying it as a poisonous anti-Bush polemic ("Attack of the ... was thin
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/05/16/BL2005051600615.html
[nq:1]The Punditocracy is already throwing a massive ***-fit all overTV, decrying it as a poisonous anti-Bush polemic ("Attack of the ... was thin
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Oh please. Lucas hates Bush. He used to *** Linda Rondstadt forever, fer chrissakes - he shares her politics. He lives in San Friggin Rafael, if you know anything about the Bay area at all. His best buddy is Spielberg.
If you want to get politically weird, explain Hillary and Newt lately.
Or tell me why the Irish Times writer who wrote a book about the "Manh
Oh please. Lucas hates Bush. He used to *** Linda Rondstadt forever, fer chrissakes - he shares her politics. He lives in San Friggin Rafael, if you know anything about the Bay area at all. His best buddy is Spielberg.
If you want to get politically weird, explain Hillary and Newt lately.
Or tell me why the Irish Times writer who wrote a book about the "Manh
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[nq:1]Oh please. Lucas hates Bush. He used to *** Linda Rondstadt forever, fer chrissakes - he shares her politics. He lives in San Friggin Rafael, if you know anything about the Bay area at all. His best buddy is Spielberg.[/nq]
Okay... Lucas hates Bush so do I but what has that got to do with the progression of democracy to empire that, according to NMS, has always been in this new "Star War
Okay... Lucas hates Bush so do I but what has that got to do with the progression of democracy to empire that, according to NMS, has always been in this new "Star War
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[nq:1]They lost me forever with the damned ewoks.[/nq]
Watch it, boyo. Ken Wheat wrote some of them ewoks. You'd could be in trouble right here in hyperspace...
[nq:1]They lost me forever with the damned ewoks.[/nq]
Watch it, boyo. Ken Wheat wrote some of them ewoks. You'd could be in trouble right here in hyperspace...
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[nq:1]It only goes to show (yet again) how knee-jerk this sort of reaction is. Lucas himself has been talking all along, in respect to this trilogy that it was specifically about how, historically, democracies tend to self-destruct and become dictatorships.[/nq]
Okay, Lucas gives cites Julius Caesar, Napoleon, and Hitler as dictators who emerged from democracies.
I'm no historian, but are
Okay, Lucas gives cites Julius Caesar, Napoleon, and Hitler as dictators who emerged from democracies.
I'm no historian, but are
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[nq:2]It only goes to show (yet again) how knee-jerk this ... about how, historically, democracies tend to self-destruct and become dictatorships.[/nq]
[nq:1]Okay, Lucas cites Julius Caesar[/nq]
The only legit example, though Rome was beginning to decay when JC took over iirc.
[nq:1]Napoleon[/nq]
Emerged from the chaos of the French Revolution and provided stability and order at fi
[nq:1]Okay, Lucas cites Julius Caesar[/nq]
The only legit example, though Rome was beginning to decay when JC took over iirc.
[nq:1]Napoleon[/nq]
Emerged from the chaos of the French Revolution and provided stability and order at fi
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[nq:1]Of course (Napoleon) was not a popular guy with all the other Euro countries because France was the first country ... they needed to put an end to the upstart rabble taking over from the anointed rulers. ("There goes the neighborhood!")[/nq]
Not so. The English got rid of their monarch 100+ years earlier.
And that for sure came out of democracy it was the Parliament that
Not so. The English got rid of their monarch 100+ years earlier.
And that for sure came out of democracy it was the Parliament that
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[nq:1]I'm no historian, but are these good examples? I readily agree that Hitler is, but I don't really know enough ... dictatorships? Have there been enough democracies that have been around long enough for us to reach any conclusion about it?[/nq]
Well, part of the problem in answering your question is that the world is probably in a state, right now, where "the majority of democracies" stil
Well, part of the problem in answering your question is that the world is probably in a state, right now, where "the majority of democracies" stil
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[nq:2]They lost me forever with the damned ewoks.[/nq]
[nq:1]Watch it, boyo. Ken Wheat wrote some of them ewoks. You'd could be in trouble right here in hyperspace...[/nq]
I'm pretty sure didn't write "close up on zipper in costume."
Mysti
[nq:1]Watch it, boyo. Ken Wheat wrote some of them ewoks. You'd could be in trouble right here in hyperspace...[/nq]
I'm pretty sure didn't write "close up on zipper in costume."
Mysti
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Art is inherently subversive, that's why they line up the artists and writers in any extremist purge.
I don't think of Lucas as having artistic impulses storywise, guess I'll have to revise my thinking!
Mysti
I don't think of Lucas as having artistic impulses storywise, guess I'll have to revise my thinking!
Mysti
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