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Star Wars Devil: The Dark Force Awakens -- coming to a planet very near YOU

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Through the darkness travels energy – powerful, complex, and … encoded. From the distant reaches, at the speed of light, it finally collides with solid matter. Unmindful and undeterred, it continues on, but emerges permanently changed into more powerful form. Force! And where there was once silence, now thunder …

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Ground Zero presents
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"The new Star Wars film officially opens tonight and there has never been so much excitement and anticipation for a film in a long time. The space fantasy movie has captured the hearts and minds of many generations. I am most definitely a fan of the films and was even begrudgingly being an apologist for the barely tolerable prequels where we find out how Anakin Skywalker fell from grace to become Darth Vader. … The Death Star, an ominous base with the ability to destroy an entire planet, was later obliterated by the freedom fighters of the public. The death toll was 300,000 loyal subjects of the Empire.
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“Lucas has done what artists constantly do: created something that on the surface seems harmless, but as we dig deeper into the politics of ‘Star Wars’ reveals a story told – and played out – throughout history. From the Roman Empire to Nazi Germany, we have seen these stories, …”
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“In modern American conspiracy history, we have a secret fear that a darker power of [illuminised] intelligence operators are in control of our government. Our government has a leader that hides many secrets. The people wonder about his origins, his birthplace, his childhood, his family life and what loyalty he has to God and the Republic to which he serves. If we choose to believe in a darker narrative, “The Force Awakens” becomes more of an eerie doppelganger to what is happening in reality.”
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DuracellEnergizer said:

… I’m not sure I like it.

Yes, when the “dark lords” drop their mild-mannered masks, it is always decrepit-ugly underneath. Mild-mannered Chancellor Palpatine … to … decrepit-ugly Darth Sidious. Mild-mannered George Lucas “director of modern myth Star Wars” … to … decrepit-ugly George Lucas “I’m a '60s, West Coast, liberal, radical, artsy, dyed-in-the-wool 99 percenter before there was such a thing.” The New York Times Magazine - 20120117 “George Lucas Is Ready to Roll the Credits”

Star Wars Modernism blog - 20120607 “Star Wars & Modernism: An Introduction”:

"George Lucas’ life long loyalty to Joseph Campbell’s ideas of archetypal mythic figures and narratives have retarded any-and-all discussions of Star Wars; freezing it where it began: as a “modern myth.” The greatest disservice this does is it frames the film in terms of heros from ancient myth like Theseius, religious figures like the Buddha, and looming figures from history like Hitler … But George Lucas was a young guy from Modesto CA - a product of New World of hotrods and AM radio. Likewise the great majority of his crew were Californians, most, like Lucas, realatively fresh from film school. They might be dressed in the drag of the aristocratic General Rokurota Makabe and Calvery Captain von Rauffenstein, but Star Wars is peopled with characters that would have been familiar to a young man growing up in the 1950s and 60s in small town America; not despots or Buddhas, but uptight conformists and monkish intellectuals.
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“Darth Vader was not a German Fascist, he was an American fascist (lowercase f). He is the Ugly American - a rigid Cold War ideologue. The inside of his helmet stinks of Brylcreem, gin, and Pall Malls. Yoda was not the Buddha, he was an old Leftist like Obi Wan - black-listed progressives; out of work in the wake of McCarthyism, one-time culture warriors exiled from the bright lights of Hollywood and New York, licking their wounds in back-waters like Modesto CA. Lives that were once public and grand, were wrapped in moth eaten tweed, crowded into three-room bungalows, hidden behind ratty overgrown lawns, reduced to serving Nescafe to the random teenager looking for an abandoned past of radicalism and fame: ‘I haven’t heard that name in a very long time…’”