A Weblog of Centrist Voices in American Politics
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May 19, 2005Darth Bush?Boi from Troy points out: The internets are buzzing this week with the theory that there are hidden, anti-George Bush messages in Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, out in theatres tomorrow near you! Apparently PABAAH, or Patriotic Americans Boycotting Anti-American Hollywood (giggle), is in a tiff and calling for a boycott of Star Wars Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith, because since the show has started playing "film critics, commentators and Internet bloggers have been debating whether filmmaker George Lucas is comparing President Bush and the Iraq war to the Dark Side of the Force." First, who cares, and second, here is a piece of advice to my friends at PABAAH... Get a life! Really, how dare those liberal movie evil doers make a film that actually is relevant to current events? People might get interested and, as opposed to anything starring Ben Affleck that has absolutely no social value at all, go see it. Hence the point of capitalist Hollywood... To make money! I guess it is good to laugh at those in my own party who seem to be content on living every waking hour like the entire world is out to get them. The Washington Post recently wrote a piece on another flick, Kingdom of Heaven, that has some interesting parallels to the current issues surrounding the Middle East. Although I am more interested in finding out what kind of spectacle Ridley Scott and George Lucas can create, I plan to go see both movies, and I could give a rat's backside about the political message. It isn't Hollywood's fault that there aren't any talented right-wing filmmakers except of course for the token himself, Mel Gibson Comments
Matt, isn't this what it means to be an ideologue? Every field and meadow than CAN be a battlefield SHOULD be a battlefield. I think the problem is that the most partisan have grown and fed their followers on a constant diet of anger and outrage, which feels soooooo good. And now nothing else will satisfy. Righteous indignation must be served at every meal. Posted by: bk at May 19, 2005 01:05 PMAnd you keep needing bigger meals as your stomach stretches. Posted by: Tully at May 19, 2005 02:12 PMDarth Bush? No, we libs prefer 'Darth Cheney' and 'Grand Moff Texan', or 'The Emperor Puppetine'. The rumor is if you play the soundtrack for SW:ROTS backwards, you can hear all three many, many times ;) Posted by: bogeyman at May 19, 2005 02:34 PMI had previously assumed that the accident-prone Gungan Jar Jar Binks was a sly portrayal of the gaffe-prone Massachusetts Senator John Kerry...;) How remarkably silly. It must be a slow news day. Posted by: Simon at May 19, 2005 05:35 PMNope, it's official now. It's Darth Frist. Posted by: Tully at May 19, 2005 06:16 PMGee, when I used to run around with my toy plastic light saber, pretending to be a Jedi, my folks thought I was just being silly. Now I know I was practicing to be a Democrat. ;-) Posted by: Blue Jean at May 19, 2005 10:19 PMWell, this afternoon, Minority Senate Leader Harry Reid was asked if he feared the judges; he said the only person in a black robe that Americans need to fear is Darth Vader. Zing! Posted by: Blue Jean at May 20, 2005 02:52 AMSlashdot had a pointer to a disapproving National Review review, which grumbled because they thought an obvious comparison was being drawn between Bush' antiterrorism measures and Senator Palpatine's But the "obvious comparison" is to Senator Octavian Caesar's action ending the Roman Republic. That's been clear since the very first one, when Vader, Moff Tarkin, and Leia talked about the dissolution of the Senate. How many times have I heard conservatives grumble about liberals not thinking about their history? My bad--the MoveOn.org clip my link points at shows Frist as the Emperor, blowing up Washington. Not as Darth. Posted by: Tully at May 20, 2005 09:19 AMBut hang on - isn't it OBVIOUS this film has a flagrantly liberal anti-GOP bias? I mean, the bad guys have RED lightsabres, the good guys have BLUE lightsabres, and the REALLY baddass good guys have GREEN lightsabres. If that doens't make it clear that George Lucas is a Bush-bashing Pelosi-appeasing Nader voter, I don't know what would. ;) Posted by: Simon at May 20, 2005 11:30 AMAnd we know that the FBI (aka "Imperial Storm Troopers") have targeted eco-terrorism. Those Rebel Scum! I liked STAR WARS better the first time they made it, when it was still called "Prince Valiant." Posted by: Tully at May 20, 2005 11:34 AMOr better yet; the Japanese version, which was called "The Hidden Fortress". Posted by: Blue Jean at May 20, 2005 05:36 PMDon't boycott Sith because it's political. Boycott it because it's crap. Posted by: mikereynolds at May 21, 2005 06:01 PMNow, Mathew, there's more than just Mel Gibson. There's Clint Eastwood too. Won a few awards, he has.... Posted by: Blue Jean at May 21, 2005 09:11 PM |
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