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Posted 26 May 2005 - 06:01 AM

http://chrenkoff.blogspot.com/

An open letter to George Lucas
Dear Mr Lucas

This might be a good opportunity to thank you for many hours of
entertainment that your two "Star Wars" trilogies have provided for me with.
I'm not one of the "Star Wars" fanatics, but I've watched the five films so
far several times over the years. I most fondly remember watching the first
trilogy in the late 1970s and the early 80s at the movies, when I was a boy
living in the then communist Poland. Your space saga of Luke Skywalker and
his fight against Darth Vader, the Empire and the Dark Side has proved as
big a hit on the other side of the Iron Curtin as it did in the West.

You might be aware that all of us who saw the "Star Wars" trilogy throughout
the communist world saw it as an entertaining, yet still nonetheless
powerful commentary on the current world events. We simply couldn't escape
the conclusion that the militaristic and freedom-crushing Empire with its
legions of stormtroopers is a futuristic version of the Soviet Empire, which
had conquered and enslaved hundreds of millions of people like myself. For
us, of course, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and all the others fighting to
restore the Republic were brave freedom fighters in the truest sense of the
word. Like the Western movie goers, we too cheered when the Death Star was
destroyed (twice), but whereas for our counterparts in the Free World this
was just a great cinematic climax, for us it embodied the hope ("A New
Hope", if you pardon the pun) that one day the specter of totalitarianism
will vanish and we will be free again.

Apparently, however, we were wrong - we didn't read your movies correctly.

I noted with interest your recent remarks in Cannes:

"Star Wars" director George Lucas says that although he wrote the original
film during the Vietnam War, his six-part saga could apply to the war in
Iraq.

"In terms of evil, one of the original concepts was how does a democracy
turn itself into a dictatorship," Lucas told a news conference at Cannes,
where his final episode had its world premiere.

"The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we're doing in Iraq
now are unbelievable.

"On the personal level it was how does a good person turn into a bad person,
and part of the observation of that is that most bad people think they are
good people, they are doing it for the right reasons."

Yes, we were very wrong indeed - to you, the Empire was the United States of
America, and if that's the case, then the brave rebels could only be all
those people around the world fighting the American Empire - the Castros,
Che Guevaras, Ho Chi Minhs, Pol Pots, and by extension, the Brezhnevs and
the Mao Tse Tungs of this world. You, of course, live in the Free World, and
as such you have the right to believe that your country is the most powerful
force for evil operating in the world.

But just for the sake of completeness and historical accuracy, can I just
mention that whatever the sins of the United States - and I certainly
understand well enough that no country is perfect - your rebels, both when
fighting for power and when finally in power, ended up being responsible for
the death of tens of millions and enslavement of hundreds of millions; the
Luke Skywalkers and Han Solos of the last century gave us gulags and
re-education camps, terror famines and political prisons; they
institutionalized cults of personality, stifled every human freedom and
impoverished whole nations.

May I also add that whatever your thoughts about the United States and its
supposed descent from a democracy into empire, had the Rebels won, you would
have never had a chance to film a critical allegory on your own government.
At best, your artistic output would have consisted of short features about
the 150% increase in the wheat harvest, and at worst - if you had stayed
true to your conscience - you would be dreaming your "Star Wars" trilogy
from behind bars.

Over the course of the last three years, the United States and her allies
have managed to depose two truly despicable regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq
and today are trying to bring the gift of freedom and democracy - things
that you enjoy every day probably without giving them much thought - to tens
of millions of people who have never known them before. You might well think
that Anakin Skywalker's painful transformation into Darth Vader is somehow a
perfect analogy for the political journey of George W Bush, but I have a
sneaking suspicion that movie fans in Baghdad will have already recognized
Darth Vader as one of their own - with a moustache rather than a black
helmet. He, too, had two children, although they didn't turn up quite as
cute as Luke and Leia. They names were Uday and Qusay.

I will still go and see "The Revenge of the Sith" when it opens in Australia
in a few days' time, and I will not stop enjoying the other five films just
because I read their message differently to what you intended.

But if in your mind, it's the United States that has slowly transformed
itself into an evil Empire, and therefore, logically all those who stand up
to it are our story's true heroes, than I have to say that the Dark Side is
very strong indeed, and I have crossed over a long time ago. If America is
the Empire, then please prepare a black helmet and uniform for me too.

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Posted 26 May 2005 - 08:05 AM

I've got a better letter.

Dear Mr. Lucas,

I don't know if you realize this, but your directing and screenwriting skills blow. If you make another SW film and decide to write and/or direct it yourself, prepare for someone in a Darth Vader costume to come to your house and dismember you with a machette.

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Posted 26 May 2005 - 08:07 AM

QUOTE (floppydisk @ May 26 2005, 02:05 PM)
I've got a better letter.

Dear Mr. Lucas,

I don't know if you realize this, but your directing and screenwriting skills blow. If you make another SW film and decide to write and/or direct it yourself, prepare for someone in a Darth Vader costume to come to your house and dismember you with a machette.

Much love,
floppydisk


Hey, you wouldn`t harm old good grandpa, would you?!
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Posted 26 May 2005 - 08:11 AM

Not me... I just said someone.
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Posted 26 May 2005 - 02:46 PM

Well if he's gonna keep making this drivel, it's not as if he'd be missed is it! How about the SW legacy is lead on by someone new... and good!
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Posted 26 May 2005 - 04:44 PM

Like.... How about the dude from Pulp Fiction? Can't remember his name right now.
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Posted 26 May 2005 - 05:11 PM

More bashing huh? I thought that was common only at IMDB. wink.gif
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Posted 26 May 2005 - 05:14 PM

Dude, this is like, the home of the bashiest bashers on the planet.
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Posted 26 May 2005 - 05:17 PM

Regardless, this place is much cooler.
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Posted 26 May 2005 - 05:20 PM

That's because I'm here.
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Posted 26 May 2005 - 05:22 PM

Yeh you the Man.
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Posted 26 May 2005 - 07:21 PM

QUOTE (sniper968 @ May 26 2005, 12:01 PM)
http://chrenkoff.blogspot.com/

An open letter to George Lucas
Dear Mr Lucas

This might be a good opportunity to thank you for many hours of
entertainment that your two "Star Wars" trilogies have provided for me with.
I'm not one of the "Star Wars" fanatics, but I've watched the five films so
far several times over the years. I most fondly remember watching the first
trilogy in the late 1970s and the early 80s at the movies, when I was a boy
living in the then communist Poland. Your space saga of Luke Skywalker and
his fight against Darth Vader, the Empire and the Dark Side has proved as
big a hit on the other side of the Iron Curtin as it did in the West.

You might be aware that all of us who saw the "Star Wars" trilogy throughout
the communist world saw it as an entertaining, yet still nonetheless
powerful commentary on the current world events. We simply couldn't escape
the conclusion that the militaristic and freedom-crushing Empire with its
legions of stormtroopers is a futuristic version of the Soviet Empire, which
had conquered and enslaved hundreds of millions of people like myself. For
us, of course, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and all the others fighting to
restore the Republic were brave  freedom fighters in the truest sense of the
word. Like the Western movie goers, we too cheered when the Death Star was
destroyed (twice), but whereas for our counterparts in the Free World this
was just a great cinematic climax, for us it embodied the hope ("A New
Hope", if you pardon the pun) that one day the specter of totalitarianism
will vanish and we will be free again.

Apparently, however, we were wrong - we didn't read your movies correctly.

I noted with interest your recent remarks in Cannes:

"Star Wars" director George Lucas says that although he wrote the original
film during the Vietnam War, his six-part saga could apply to the war in
Iraq.

"In terms of evil, one of the original concepts was how does a democracy
turn itself into a dictatorship," Lucas told a news conference at Cannes,
where his final episode had its world premiere.

"The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we're doing in Iraq
now are unbelievable.

"On the personal level it was how does a good person turn into a bad person,
and part of the observation of that is that most bad people think they are
good people, they are doing it for the right reasons."

Yes, we were very wrong indeed - to you, the Empire was the United States of
America, and if that's the case, then the brave rebels could only be all
those people around the world fighting the American Empire - the Castros,
Che Guevaras, Ho Chi Minhs, Pol Pots, and by extension, the Brezhnevs and
the Mao Tse Tungs of this world. You, of course, live in the Free World, and
as such you have the right to believe that your country is the most powerful
force for evil operating in the world.

But just for the sake of completeness and historical accuracy, can I just
mention that whatever the sins of the United States - and I certainly
understand well enough that no country is perfect - your rebels, both when
fighting for power and when finally in power, ended up being responsible for
the death of tens of millions and enslavement of hundreds of millions; the
Luke Skywalkers and Han Solos of the last century gave us gulags and
re-education camps, terror famines and political prisons; they
institutionalized cults of personality, stifled every human freedom and
impoverished whole nations.

May I also add that whatever your thoughts about the United States and its
supposed descent from a democracy into empire, had the Rebels won, you would
have never had a chance to film a critical allegory on your own government.
At best, your artistic output would have consisted of short features about
the 150% increase in the wheat harvest, and at worst - if you had stayed
true to your conscience - you would be dreaming your "Star Wars" trilogy
from behind bars.

Over the course of the last three years, the United States and her allies
have managed to depose two truly despicable regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq
and today are trying to bring the gift of freedom and democracy - things
that you enjoy every day probably without giving them much thought - to tens
of millions of people who have never known them before. You might well think
that Anakin Skywalker's painful transformation into Darth Vader is somehow a
perfect analogy for the political journey of George W Bush, but I have a
sneaking suspicion that movie fans in Baghdad will have already recognized
Darth Vader as one of their own - with a moustache rather than a black
helmet. He, too, had two children, although they didn't turn up quite as
cute as Luke and Leia. They names were Uday and Qusay.

I will still go and see "The Revenge of the Sith" when it opens in Australia
in a few days' time, and I will not stop enjoying the other five films just
because I read their message differently to what you intended.

But if in your mind, it's the United States that has slowly transformed
itself into an evil Empire, and therefore, logically all those who stand up
to it are our story's true heroes, than I have to say that the Dark Side is
very strong indeed, and I have crossed over a long time ago. If America is
the Empire, then please prepare a black helmet and uniform for me too.

# posted by Arthur : 6:53 AM

Han Solo's gulag has gotta be so cool!!! That should be the next Vegas Casino, I can see it in bright lights: "Han Solo's Gulag" Gambling, hookers, booze-sign me up.

But back to the serious discussion, just for once, imagine how poor Darth feels being compared to the likes of GW. He may have been a good person, but never a stupid person like Dubya.

I guess Darth Sidious is Cheney or some other member of the neocon sanhedrin.
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Posted 06 July 2005 - 04:49 AM

Cyclonian, you're the luckiest guy on Earth. You're member 666! Isn't that awesome?
Sorry, you won't be seeing a smartass sig here. Try with the next poster.
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Posted 06 July 2005 - 07:14 AM

QUOTE (floppydisk @ May 26 2005, 05:20 PM)
That's because I'm here.


you what?

you steelin' my material?

i can believe i didn't see this before...
Man, I'm going to beat you up!!!
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Posted 06 July 2005 - 09:49 AM

By working out all the kinks with the PT, Lucas can proceed with his real goal, redoing Howard the Duck in CGI.
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