Art Emulating Real Life?
Thursday May 19, 2005
George Lucas received one of the highest possible awards in film this week, winning the Cannes Trophy of the Festival as Star Wars III launched its world premiere. Speaking with reporters, Lucas confirmed that the story could be seen as "as a parable about American politics."
When he wrote the film, the US was in the midst of the Vietnam War, and he was thinking about "democracy, and how a senate could give itself over, could surrender itself to a dictator."
He was asked about parallels with the current war in Iraq:
When he wrote the film, the US was in the midst of the Vietnam War, and he was thinking about "democracy, and how a senate could give itself over, could surrender itself to a dictator."
He was asked about parallels with the current war in Iraq:
When I wrote it Iraq didn't exist. We were funding Saddam Hussein and giving him weapons of mass destruction. We were going after Iran. But the parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we are doing in Iraq are unbelievable.Also see the Cannes Film Festival website.