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Mon Dec 21, 2015, 10:02 PMStar Member applegrove (69,193 posts)“Star Wars†got us ready for Reagan: “You suddenly have permission to think in very juvenile terms a“Star Wars†got us ready for Reagan: “You suddenly have permission to think in very juvenile terms about how history worksâ€by Scott Timberg at Salonhttp://www.salon.com/2015/12/21/star_wars_got_us_ready_for_reagan_you_suddenly_have_permission_to_think_in_very_juvenile_terms_about_how_history_works/"SNIP.............“Star Wars: The Force Reawakens†broke all kinds of records over the weekend and has been called a return to the style of the original 1977 film. It will soon swallow everything in the known universe.Historian Rick Perlstein finds himself interested in the movie, but he’s not an action-figure collector. What intrigues him is way the “Star Wars†movies have become the dominant pop culture of the last few decades. “I was about to turn eight years old when it came out,†he wrote recently of the original film, “and I loved it as much as the next second grader did. Because … I was a second grader. Looking back at thesummer of 1977 now, however, wearing my historian’s cap, I have to protest: why are we celebrating this ‘franchise’ in the worshipful way we are, when it contributed so materially to turning us into a nation of eight-year-olds?â€Perlstein, the author of “The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan,†just published an insightful piece in the Washington Spectator called “Juvenilia Strikes Back.†He argues that “Star Wars†didn’t just help end the New Hollywood boom that included artful, grown-up films like “Taxi Driver,†“The Godfather†and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest†– a claim that’s become part of the accepted wisdom — but that it helped prepare the nation for the Reagan revolution. At the very least, the movie and its sequels came at a time when the nation was moving through the traumas of the ‘60s and ‘70s – with moments of introspection and self-criticism – to the unreflective triumphalism of the ‘80s.We asked Perlstein, who lives in Chicago, to put the movie in historical context for us: Most centrally, what was the connection between the success of “Star Wars†and the other tensions in American life at the time? The interview has been lightly edited for clarity...............SNIP"
Response to applegrove (Original post)Mon Dec 21, 2015, 11:14 PMnadinbrzezinski (142,281 posts)12. Ok, ok, now getting my hat on for why Star Wars was writtenit was about Nixon. The speech, this is how democracy dies, in the prequel. was about Nixon.The whole thing was an allegory about Nixonian politics.Just like the LoTR is about WW I, and industrial warfare.There are days...
There are days when I am surprised even the Salvation Army doesn`t have a contract out for you.
Maybe they do. There are a lot of people out there countrywide collecting a whole lotta money these days.
I think Nadin's idiotic and dismissive summation of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings is the reason why Tolkien detested allegory and denied that Lord of the Rings was allegory.
Ted Kennedy is the only person with an actual confirmed kill in the war on women.
