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May 18, 2005
What's George smoking?
I think Lucas has a lot more stuff than pine trees growing on Skywalker Ranch.
I was 23 when SW first came out and was immediately taken with it. I saw it 14 times that first summer and read everything I could get my hands on, including every interview Lucas did. He never ... NEVER ... said anything about SW being a political parable, let alone one where America is the "evil empire." His rationale for writing SW was to give kids a fantastical world with villians and heros to hiss and cheer. His concern was by the 70's kids didn't have such movies like he had when he was a kid going to Saturday matinees and watching Westerns, etc.
Amazing how Lucas, just like he has gone back and revised his original movie, has revised his reasons for writing them in the first place.
Posted by Darleen at May 18, 2005 06:33 AM