It is so painfully obvious that George lifted all these characterizations from the 1930s-40s era cinema he’s so fond of, which was absolutely loaded with unambiguous racist caricatures, and then applied them in a well-meaning but very poorly considered and tone-deaf way decades later in his own work. I don’t think Lucas had a racist agenda when he made the prequels, I think he was a kind of clueless sixty-something year old guy with no one to tell him how dated and awful this stuff was.
Post #927822
- Author
- joefavs
- Parent topic
- Filmmaker and New Yorker film critic Richard Brody's thoughts on the prequels.
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/927822/action/topic#927822
- Date created
- 11-Apr-2016, 11:40 PM