Originally posted by: ShiftyEyes

Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
Being revised in the late 90's it's no wonder and after september 11th 2001 that lucas found his political footing for the new trilogy in the "new" bush adminatration. Lucas called Valorum as reference to Bill Clinton.

Is it an accident that Both Palpatine and George Bush used a situation of crisis to grab more power for the executive branch of a government?

In star wars it's the seperatists in real life it's bin ladin and al quiada.

I don't really see how these fit into the films. How is Valorum Clinton-like? If I recall correctly, Attack of the Clones was filming in summer of 2000. Bush wasn't even the president at the time.

Didn't people say similar things about racial stereotypes in TPM? The "asian accents" of the Nemodians, Jar Jar sounding like a Jamaican, and Watto being the Jew. I honestly never noticed any of it, so I'd say it's more about what people had in their own heads then anything Lucas did intentionally. Anakin's "virgin birth" was also bandied about a lot, like Lucas was trying to inject Christianity into Star Wars. Lucas' general response was "oops, I didn't see it that way at all". I honestly believe he didn't. I'm sure if he'd stepped back a bit and took an honest look at it, he might have realised what the public perception would be, but I really don't think it ever dawned on him.

The only film that could possibly resemble current events, IMHO, is ROTS. Some of the conservative talk shows I listen to were talking about it before it came out and I remember thinking that it was all in their heads. Then I went to see it. Admittedly my opinion was a little colored at that point, but I could understand what they were saying. I don't believe Lucas ever denied any of it either, so it's very possible he injected ROTS with quite a bit of current events.

Of course, as I rewatched The Two Towers the other day, I realised that current events could certainly apply to that movie as well. Knowing the history of the book and how it deliberately didn't represent the events during which it was written helped to dispel that though.