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"And I see that in the Guardian's review of the DVD - not favourable, of course - mention is made of the fact that there are lines that sound really contemporary. But the reviewer decided that was by chance: no, no, no, no. Entirely by design.<br />

"And I see that in the Guardian's review of the DVD - not favourable, of course - mention is made of the fact that there are lines that sound really contemporary. But the reviewer decided that was by chance: no, no, no, no. Entirely by design.<br />

"George knew that eight-year-olds, for whom these films are primarily intended, are very impressionable, and he wanted to make the right impression. So the whole film is about the unnecessary rise of fascism. In other words: watch out, they're all after your freedom, particularly when they're talking about defending freedom. Without getting over-extended about it, that is at the heart of these movies."</ref> He also implied at one point that he supported the [[Jacobin]]s and their [[French Revolution|revolution]] until Napoleon took over when explaining his philosophy of dictatorships appearing due to people "giving away" democracy.<ref name="'Sith' invites Bush Comparisons">[http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sith-invites-bush-comparisons/2/ ''Revenge of the Sith'' invites Bush Comparisons, page 2] on CBSNews.com<br />"Lucas said he patterned his story after historical transformations from freedom to fascism, never figuring when he started his prequel trilogy in the late 1990s that current events might parallel his space fantasy.<br />"As you go through history, I didn't think it was going to get quite this close. So it's just one of those recurring things," Lucas said at a Cannes news conference. "I hope this doesn't come true in our country.<br />"Maybe the film will waken people to the situation," Lucas joked<br />[...]<br />"When I wrote it, [the 2003 Iraq war] didn't exist," Lucas said, laughing.<br />"We were just funding Saddam Hussein and giving him weapons of mass destruction. We didn't think of him as an enemy at that time. We were going after Iran and using him as our surrogate, just as we were doing in Vietnam. ... The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we're doing in Iraq now are unbelievable."<br />The prequel trilogy is based on a back-story outline Lucas created in the mid-1970s for the original three "Star Wars" movies, so the themes percolated out of the Vietnam War and the Nixon-Watergate era, he said.<br />Lucas began researching how democracies can turn into dictatorships with full consent of the electorate.In ancient Rome, "why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew?" Lucas said. "Why did France after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon? It's the same thing with Germany and Hitler.<br />"You sort of see these recurring themes where a democracy turns itself into a dictatorship, and it always seems to happen kind of in the same way, with the same kinds of issues, and threats from the outside, needing more control. A democratic body, a senate, not being able to function properly because everybody's squabbling, there's corruption.""</ref><ref>https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2005-05-15-cannes-lucas_x.htm</ref> Lucas, or rather, his Educational Foundation, was also responsible for the left-wing educational group Edutopia. On the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Lucas also sarcastically vowed to "only make films blindingly uncritical of [America]" in mockery of pro-American films.<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/03/27/liberal-george-lucas-bashes-fnc-will-only-make-films-blindly-uncritical-of-america/</ref> During the AMC series ''James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction'', Lucas heavily implied that he was not fond of Donald Trump being elected president by quoting alongside James Cameron Padme's "So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause." Similarly, in the same source, he also indicated that most of his views that he tried to push in ''Star Wars'', including his trying to subtly depict the heroes as the Vietcong, stemmed from his study of [[anthropology]].<ref>https://youtu.be/Nxl3IoHKQ8c</ref>

"George knew that eight-year-olds, for whom these films are primarily intended, are very impressionable, and he wanted to make the right impression. So the whole film is about the unnecessary rise of fascism. In other words: watch out, they're all after your freedom, particularly when they're talking about defending freedom. Without getting over-extended about it, that is at the heart of these movies."</ref> He also implied at one point that he supported the [[Jacobin]]s and their [[French Revolution|revolution]] until Napoleon took over when explaining his philosophy of dictatorships appearing due to people "giving away" democracy.<ref name="'Sith' invites Bush Comparisons">[http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sith-invites-bush-comparisons/2/ ''Revenge of the Sith'' invites Bush Comparisons, page 2] on CBSNews.com<br />"Lucas said he patterned his story after historical transformations from freedom to fascism, never figuring when he started his prequel trilogy in the late 1990s that current events might parallel his space fantasy.<br />"As you go through history, I didn't think it was going to get quite this close. So it's just one of those recurring things," Lucas said at a Cannes news conference. "I hope this doesn't come true in our country.<br />"Maybe the film will waken people to the situation," Lucas joked<br />[...]<br />"When I wrote it, [the 2003 Iraq war] didn't exist," Lucas said, laughing.<br />"We were just funding Saddam Hussein and giving him weapons of mass destruction. We didn't think of him as an enemy at that time. We were going after Iran and using him as our surrogate, just as we were doing in Vietnam. ... The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we're doing in Iraq now are unbelievable."<br />The prequel trilogy is based on a back-story outline Lucas created in the mid-1970s for the original three "Star Wars" movies, so the themes percolated out of the Vietnam War and the Nixon-Watergate era, he said.<br />Lucas began researching how democracies can turn into dictatorships with full consent of the electorate.In ancient Rome, "why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew?" Lucas said. "Why did France after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon? It's the same thing with Germany and Hitler.<br />"You sort of see these recurring themes where a democracy turns itself into a dictatorship, and it always seems to happen kind of in the same way, with the same kinds of issues, and threats from the outside, needing more control. A democratic body, a senate, not being able to function properly because everybody's squabbling, there's corruption.""</ref><ref>https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2005-05-15-cannes-lucas_x.htm</ref> Lucas, or rather, his Educational Foundation, was also responsible for the left-wing educational group Edutopia. On the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Lucas also sarcastically vowed to "only make films blindingly uncritical of [America]" in mockery of pro-American films.<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/03/27/liberal-george-lucas-bashes-fnc-will-only-make-films-blindly-uncritical-of-america/</ref> During the AMC series ''James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction'', Lucas heavily implied that he was not fond of Donald Trump being elected president by quoting alongside James Cameron Padme's "So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause." Similarly, in the same source, he also indicated that most of his views that he tried to push in ''Star Wars'', including his trying to subtly depict the heroes as the Vietcong, stemmed from his study of [[anthropology]].<ref>https://youtu.be/Nxl3IoHKQ8c</ref> In an interview with [[Wired]] magazine, he also indicated he was an adherent to [[postmodernism]] by stating that history was fiction, and implied that his making Star Wars was an extension of this philosophy, also citing as his example of "folk artifacts" that get people "closed minded" Michael Moore's anti-Bush truther propaganda schlockumentary ''Fahrenheit 9/11''.<ref>https://www.wired.com/2005/05/lucasqa/<br />'''Wired:''' In addition to the experimental films that you say you want to make now, you’ve expressed an interest in making historical films.<br />

'''Lucas:''' Fahrenheit 9/11 . People went nuts. The folk aspects of that film were George Bush or Iraq or 9/11 or – intense emotional issues that made people put up their blinders and say, “I have an opinion about this, and I’m not going to accept anything else.” If you could look at these issues more open-mindedly – at what’s going on with the human mind behind all this, on all sides – you could have a more interesting conversation, without people screaming, plugging their ears, and walking out of the room like kids do.</ref>

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