Finally... Revenge of the Sith!
Today I finally got to see "Revenge of the Sith" today. If you haven't, I don't think what follows will spoil much.. but just in case, you may want to avoid the rest of the posting (but if you haven't seen the movie yet... well, it's probably because you don't care anyway)
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Basically it wasn't bad despite the unfortunate not-so-subtle 2 cent-worth political analogies to the present day. I also tend to agree with Kevin Drum's view that Anakin's
journey to the dark side is little more than a sullen stew of teenage angst and alienation. Sure, there was all that pop psych stuff about his mother too, but really, Anakin mostly seems to be just a standard issue kid pissed off that his elders don't take him seriously enough.In any case it was good entertainment with a few good laughs even. It was better than I and II but still not as good as 'The Empire Strikes Back' which is, in my opinion, the best of them all.
As far as the question we asked in our posting about the origin of the name 'Darth Vador', we were finally given the answer by one of our faithful commentator - and the answer comes from the Master himself.
In the june 2 edition of Rolling Stone there is a article on the cult of Darth Vader. It's an interview with George Lucas. In it he's asked this same question. His reply was, 'Darth is a variation of dark and Vader is a variation of father, so it amounts to dark father.'
That simple, eh?
So the French translation 'Dark Vador' really doesn't work... but who cares? ;-)
So the French translation 'Dark Vador' really doesn't work... but who cares? ;-)
posted by Joker & Thief @ 8:01 PM
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George Lucas's "Michael Moore" moment at Cannes has opened up new perspectives for the understanding of what on the surface appears to be a badly acted sci-fi bore. In fact, using Brechtian distancing techniques, he presents us with a roman-à-clef with exciting potential. If, as he intimated, the evil Emperor Palpatine is really George W. Bush, the identities of the other characters should easily fall into place. What of the emperor's evil disciple, who went over to the dark side after fighting for good? Tony Blair, of course, who betrayed his nominally leftish origins to join the oppressor. The Jedi council would seem to be the European Union, the only rampart defending civilization from the totalitarian behemoth. The tricky question is this: who is the rebel leader, Luke Skywalker? Jacques Chirac, last glimmering of conscience and goodness in the universe? Or committed freedom fighter Ossama bin Laden? In which case, Chirac becomes leader of ... the Trade Federation? Princess Leia is not an easy one either, but Madonna makes a tempting choice. Remember that she bravely denounced American bloodthirstiness through the medium of MTV video, and received membership in the French Légion d'Honneur from the very hand of ... fellow rebel Jacques Chirac. This is as far as my thinking on the subject has gone for the moment, but I would be eager to hear propositions for the identification of such other key figures as Yoda, Chewbacca and Master Windu. Any guesses?
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