“There’s a deep moral seriousness to the work”
Of course Tom Paulin on Star Wars Episode 3. Not much moral seriousness in The Phantom Menace, meanwhile, which appears to be an attempt by George Lucas to see how many racial stereotypes he can get into a film by hiding them as ‘alien’ races. One character (Ja-Ja Binks) could be forgiven as coincidence or a mistake, but what’s with the trade federation (untrustworthy Japanese) or the scrap dealer (grasping Jew — a CGI alien with a prominent semitic nose)? Even if Lucas is just a massive racist, who unconsciously imagines characters in stereotypical terms, how did no-one else notice during the whole course of the film’s production?
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Paulin was in fine form, I thought.
Alistair owns a Jar-Jar Binks towel.
Comment by Marty @ 5/23/2005 9:56 am
…bought for him by me. And the best towel in your house until dad trumped me with one decorated only with the words “arse” and “face”.
“The Arseface towel” as Alistair calls it.
Comment by leila @ 6/1/2005 9:21 pm