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Re: "Star Wars is racist"
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Wed, 29 May 2002 12:51:05 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Richard Marchetti writes:
> "Sand is coarse and harsh -- you are soft and pretty. Me like soft things..."
Good God, that was awful. I actually laughed out loud at that scene. It's
great that scenes intended to be moving, such as the sand:rough poetry, are
invariably farcically comical, while George's flaccid attempts at humor,
such as the entirety of Jar Jar or the C3PO/Battle Droid idiocy, are
astonishingly unfunny.
> And what an expository masterstroke it was when Anakin killed all the
> raiders -- adult, female, and babe. I never found him more decent and
> marriage-worthy than at that moment.
Testify, brother! What kind of psycho must Amidala be if she's going to
fall for that creepy, obsessive, moody stalker, and only after he's
committed mass murder? She's even crazier than Anakin.
> Couple that with his general bad manners, exaggerated sense of self worth,
> and I don't know why Anakin wasn't beating them off with a stick. I mean, it
> all made SO much sense!
And how about this: he was such an obvious sociopath that everybody in the
audience knew instantly that he was no good, yet the uber-wise Jedi council
couldn't figure it out in ten years? Viewed in that light, their failure to
catch wind of the clone army hardly seems surprising.
> So now I have to ask: Does Lucas know what a story is? Has he ever read a
> story? I can only assume it is unfamiliarity with what his goal should be
> that his left him so adrift.
I sort of disagree--I think Lucas knows vaguely what a story is, but he has
absolutely no idea of what a character is, or what dialogue is.
> Um, could y'all tell that someone drug me to this movie over the weekend?
> Next time I am going to actually punch anyone that suggests I go to a movie
> made by George Lucas.
I was wondering what happened, since you'd voiced your desire not to see
that cinematic jewel.
Dave!
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| (...) Right. During my viewing, I was by no means alone in laughing inappropriately at serious scenes and not laughing at all at the C3PO stuff -- some people seemed just generally stunned by the end of the film. During the movie people snickered (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Yeah, but the point where Anakin resolves to take revenge is one where he actually has a motive (mostly he's fed up with his duty or trying to talk pretty.) It's one of the things that really worked in the movie. Why exactly Padme looks twice (...) (22 years ago, 30-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) if I too were lavishly rewarded with wealth and fame for writing things as scintillating as: "Sand is coarse and harsh -- you are soft and pretty. Me like soft things..." And what an expository masterstroke it was when Anakin killed all the (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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