Star Wars and the American Empire<\/em> de Scott Horton. Il donne une bonne appr\u00e9ciation du contenu politique fondamental de l’uvre de Lucas.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLe plus int\u00e9ressant est que ce dernier \u00e9pisode sorti \u00e0 Cannes (en fait, le troisi\u00e8me \u00e9pisode de la s\u00e9rie, sorti apr\u00e8s tous les autres, Lucas ayant fait les \u00e9pisodes IV, V et VI avant les I, II et III) constitue une all\u00e9gorie de l’\u00e9volution de l’Empire (le vrai) sous la f\u00e9rule de GW, alors que Lucas l’avait \u00e9crit en 1972 en se r\u00e9f\u00e9rant \u00e0 ce qu’il croyait \u00eatre l’\u00e9volution de Nixon et de l’Am\u00e9rique \u00e0 la veille de la r\u00e9\u00e9lection du m\u00eame Nixon. (Lucas n’avait \u00e9videmment pas pr\u00e9vu le Watergate, et sa vision de Nixon telle qu’elle ressort de son sc\u00e9nario nous semble erron\u00e9e. Par contre, quelle \u00e9tonnante prescience de GW.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tScott Horton : \u00ab Before the movie was even released, people began making the connection between the war on terror and Vader’s declaration near the end of Revenge of the Sith, You are either with me or you are my enemy. Lucas, however, when asked if this was a reference to the War on Terror, said at the Cannes film festival, When I wrote it, [the current war in] Iraq didn’t exist. We were just funding Saddam Hussein, giving him weapons of mass destruction; we didn’t think of him as an enemy at that point. We were going after Iran, using [Saddam] as our surrogate just as we were doing in Vietnam. This really came out of the Vietnam era and the parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we’re doing in Iraq now are unbelievable.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Some neocons have expressed their dismay that the new Star Wars movie seems so antiwar, saying it was perhaps even rewritten as an anti-Bush diatribe. This cold desperation comes as no surprise, but it also strengthens my appreciation of Lucas’ decision to make episodes IV, V, and VI before I, II, and the now-completed III. This establishes first the generally agreeable premise that it’s right to overthrow oppressive government, before bringing into focus something more discomforting that the corrupt tyranny referred to is our own. The story being told this week was written over 30 years ago, as Lucas has explained. Star Wars was really about the Vietnam War, and that was the period where Nixon was trying to run for a [second] term, which got me to thinking historically about how do democracies get turned into dictatorships? Because the democracies aren’t overthrown; they’re given away.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t(…)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bb According to the Chicago Tribune, Lucas said he wrote the screenplay’s politically pointed elements before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the subsequent war on terror. So when Palpatine announces that he intends to remain at war until a certain General Grievous is captured, no parallels to the hunt for Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein were intended. First of all we never thought of Bush ever becoming president,’ Star Wars producer Rick McCallum said, or then 9\/11, the PATRIOT Act, war, weapons of mass destruction. Then suddenly you realize, Oh, my God, there’s something happening that looks like we’re almost prescient.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tL’int\u00e9r\u00eat de cette interpr\u00e9tation de l’oeuvre va encore plus loin puisqu’elle embrasse finalement tout le destin de l’Am\u00e9rique, avec des r\u00e9f\u00e9rences solides qui d\u00e9mystifient l’histoire officielle. En se r\u00e9f\u00e9rant \u00e0 un autre passage du dernier \u00e9pisode, Horton note que \u00ab The name Grand Army of the Republic is a direct reference to the Union Army during America’s war over secession<\/em> \u00bb. L’interpr\u00e9tation renvoie alors aux appr\u00e9ciations r\u00e9visionnistes de la Guerre de S\u00e9cession, qui placent au second plan la question de l’esclavage. La cause principale de la guerre est une volont\u00e9, exprim\u00e9e par le gouvernement de Lincoln, de centralisation assortie d’un protectionnisme d’expansion int\u00e9rieure, aboutissant \u00e0 la cr\u00e9ation d’une puissance industrielle colossale, matrice de la puissance commerciale, financi\u00e8re et militaire de l’Am\u00e9rique des XX\u00e8me et d\u00e9but du XXI\u00e8me si\u00e8cle. C’est la transformation de la Grande R\u00e9publique en Empire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 23 mai 2005 \u00e0 9H40<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Le dernier \u00e9pisode de Star Wars a fait grand bruit au Festival de Cannes. Habituel coup m\u00e9diatique, certes, mais beaucoup de choses derri\u00e8re. Nous vous recommandons la lecture d’un article sur Antiwar.com de ce jour, Star Wars and the American Empire de Scott Horton. Il donne une bonne appr\u00e9ciation du contenu politique fondamental de l’uvre… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2631,2645,3198,3896,4577,1406,2949],"class_list":["post-66435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-de","tag-guerre","tag-gw","tag-lincoln","tag-lucas","tag-nixon","tag-secession"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}