Star Wars: Beloved by Gingrich AND Pelosi
Star Wars: Beloved by Gingrich AND Pelosi
May 01The History Channel is celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of a lil’ flick called Star Wars with a two-hour special on May 28, Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed.
In this special, such “luminaries” as Tom Brokaw, Nancy Pelosi, and Newt “Evil Incarnate” Gingrich comment on the Star Wars films. If you’re like me, you have been LITERALLY SLOWLY DYING from not knowing what Newt “Satan’s Spawn” Gingrich thinks of Star Wars, so at long last, we can sleep easy.
Then, we wake on Tuesday morning and initiate the suicide pact bestowed upon us by our Martian overlords.
Here’s my favorite part of the hype-soaked press release, though:
The special makes the argument that Star Wars’ intensely compelling stories—borrowed from diverse traditions, from Greek mythology and American westerns to the Bible and even Vaudeville—compel us to explore some of the biggest questions of our time. STAR WARS: THE LEGACY REVEALED explores that view through interviews with politicians, academics, journalists and critics, who all weigh in on the creations of George Lucas. The special shows how seldom a movie can make us laugh and think about our role in the universe—which may be why it has stood the test of time.
So, wow. When the prequels first bombed, these were stories for kids:
“The movies are for children but they don’t want to admit that. In the first film they absolutely hated R2 and C3-PO. In the second film they didn’t like Yoda and in the third one they hated the Ewoks… and now Jar Jar is getting accused of the same thing.”
Now, of course, we’ve come full circle again and Lucas is claiming the title of “modern mythmaker” and “Joseph Campbell’s bitch.”
Let’s just call these movies what they are. Two shitty ones, two good ones, and two classics. You know which is which.
