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Originally posted by OldDragger
Star Wars huh?
No, Lucas was just telling a story, a so so story at that.
ATTENTION TEENS!
Star Wars, The Matrix, ETC are Movies! Movies! Made to make money, not philosophical statements! Fiction!
As significant as a Swiffer commercial!
Good grief........!
Originally posted by OldDragger
Star Wars huh?
No, Lucas was just telling a story, a so so story at that.
ATTENTION TEENS!
Star Wars, The Matrix, ETC are Movies! Movies! Made to make money, not philosophical statements! Fiction!
As significant as a Swiffer commercial!
Good grief........!
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FWIW, this is my opinion:
Hollywood is about one thing and it's not entertainment or, ultimately, even
about making money. It's about social engineering and it has always been
that way. It's not that there are films or directors that do push the agenda
and films or directors that don't push the agenda. They all push the
agenda in some way and they always have pushed the agenda since the
very beginning. This applies to all of Hollywood including movies, TV, music,
etc.
I worked in Hollywood for years in the "trenches" of its lower ranks. In fact
I'm even in Spielberg's War of the Worlds myself (for about a second) and
was directed by him in another scene in that movie that never saw the light
of day (SOP in Hollywood). That one second on screen was the end product
of four of the longest and most grueling days I have ever spent on a movie
set, BTW, but I digress.
Looking at Hollywood from within its lower rungs over a period of more than a
decade gives one a certain perspective that you're not likely to hear about
as frequently as from those nearer the top of the food chain. What the
public hears about Hollywood usually comes from its upper echelons but the
realities of Hollywood can be quite different from that.
Long story short, Hollywood is not a fun place. Apart from the often
horrendous treatment of employees, it's a place where conning the public is
regarded as an inside joke. The basic joke being that one shows a sincere
face to the general public while, in truth, taking them for all their worth.
For example, Disney is a prime example of this (but is only one example).
Disney has the public image of 'sweetness and light' but is in reality the most
bloodthirsty employer in Hollywood, a commonly held opinion among those
real people who have actually worked for them.
Anyway, my point is that Hollywood lies. Not only does it lie but it prides
itself in its lies and thinks its lies to the 'outsider peons' are hilarious. So, I
wouldn't take what any of these guys (Spielberg, Lucas, et al) have to say
with any degree of confidence or as any sort of indication of their true
intentions or feelings.
Originally posted by Copernicus
George Lucas is absolutely an insider (not a whistleblower since he is in on it), along with people like Chris Carter, Steven Spielberg, George Orwell, Stanley Kubrick, the Wachowski brothers etc.
Its kind of obvious.
That statement "I WILL be chancellor" at 1:25 in the video above reminds me so much of this:
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The vision of the UN founders... look into what people who founded UN. You have some interesting discoveries to make.
[edit on 1-8-2010 by Copernicus]