"Star Wars": Awesome Fathers or Awesome CGI?

From an interesting (and short) essay on the morality–or rather, immorality–of the "Star Wars" films, this piquant observation:

But culture and craft aside, I think there’s still a problem of intention. Lucas started out as a rebel against the authoritarian Bad Father. That’s what his movies were about, back before they were about the awesomeness of CGI.[1] (For Chrissake: “Darth Vader”? Dark Father, right?)
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[1] How odd that someone who made movies about the evils of machine civilization should have become the champion of machine-made movies.

[Eric Rauchway, "The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the ability to destroy the moral sense of a generation", The Edge of the American West, 4 February 2010.]

Posted on February 4, 2010 at 20.43 by jns · Permalink
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