what's up guys what's going on how's everyone doing hope you're having a good
day so far so this is an interview that you might
have seen before but it's something that was requested for me to
react to there isn't too much to react to
i've seen this one before but it is an interesting interview and of course
anything regarding george lucas is always very very intellectual and you
can learn from something so let's land the ship and then let's
watch it
all right so we got the original one here um
you can find this if you type in james cameron's story of science fiction
george lucas clip let's get on with the review in school
i was of the i don't know angry young man sure you were a rebel uh
i come out of anthropology yeah so my focus is
social systems and in science fiction you've got two branches
one is science yeah and the other is social right
i'm much more of the 1984 kind of guy sure i am thx the spaceship guy yeah
the spaceship i got into spaceships out of cars yeah
i love cars i love going fast fast so i like spaceships yeah but it isn't
the science aliens and all that kind of stuff that
i get focused on it's the it's the how do the people react to all those things
yeah how do they accommodate them yeah so that's the part that really
fascinates me and i'm interested in you did something very interesting with star
wars if you think about it the good guys are the rebels they're
using asymmetric warfare against a highly organized
empire it's very interesting we call those guys terrorists today
we call them mujadine we call them al-qaeda when i did it
they were vietcong exactly so were you thinking of that at the time
so it was a very anti-authoritarian very kind of 60s against the man kind of
thing nested deep inside or a fantasy or a
colonial you know we're fighting the largest
empire in the world right and we're just a bunch of hay seeds and [ __ ] skin hats
don't know nothing that's right and it was the same thing with the vietnamese
yep the irony of that one is in in both of those
the little the little guys won right and the big
highly technical empire the english empire right the english empire of the
american empire lost yeah that was the whole point but
that's a classic us not profiting from the lesson of
history because you look at the inception of this country
and it's very it's a very noble fight of the underdog against the massive empire
you look at the situation now where america's the other inception of
america where they took it from the native
americans but that's another discussion so proud of being the biggest economy
the most powerful military force on the planet
it's become the empire in the from the perspective of a lot of people around
the world empire in the event no more and but we never learned you know
from england or rome or you know a dozen other empires empires that went
on for hundreds of years or sometimes thousands of years we never
got it we never said well wait wait wait wait wait this isn't the right
thing to do and we're still struggling with it
and they fall because of failure of leadership or
or or government often and you have a great line
which is so this is how liberty dies we're in the middle of it right now
exactly it's the pi it's it was a condemnation
of populists what padme said in a science fiction context that's a
theme that runs all the way through star wars
i think science fiction is so good at these kind of social themes
yeah the great thing about star wars is i had a a
thing i mean a a vessel that i could throw anything into yeah
but one of the biggest problems you have in science fiction with movies
they don't have it in books or anything but in movies you have to create a real
world yeah and it's a real world that doesn't exist
yeah and you have to do what i would kurosawa used to say is it has to
have immaculate reality yeah even though it's not a real term
yeah it's super interesting what i find about
his overall theme with star wars is that there was this theme that and i think
look star wars is great and i attribute some of its success
or a large portion of its success to how relatable it is
to everyone so we take you know separate characters of luke skywalker leia han
solo you can find those kind of people with
every single person in the world however there is a common theme which is
that it's the little guy against the big guy
and that is extremely relatable just you know by each character they
have their own story but as a whole it's also relatable to us as regular
people you me always against you know a bigger entity
a bully a corporation or whatever it might be
that will try to suppress us or oppress us or
whatever it might be that doesn't allow us to live our life
with the rights that we were given so i think that's
something that star wars really hits uh the nail on the head with
really really well and something that maybe a lot of people don't really
realize i know a lot of new fans don't realize but
it is a story about a rebellion and this idea of
the terrorists being the rebellion are the ones that are fighting fighting
against the big guy and giving it to the man so
star wars is extremely political and if you even look at a lot of the
um from the prequels especially if you look at a lot of the characters you can
match their accents to you know the country that they would belong to today
and i always thought that was something very interesting within star wars itself
because it's extremely political and george is very
smart so um that's all i wanted to say about
this i think it's a great interview and i hope you guys
got a little bit of insight on it from george's
words and maybe my little explanation as well
we're gonna do a quarter stream today i believe at some point i just got to make
a cobra kai theory video uh so until i do that i will see you
guys probably in a little bit probably in a few hours here
uh timothy like robin hood exactly like robin hood and that's one reason why
robin hood is so relatable to every character
and every every person i would say because he's taking
excuse me he's taken money from the rich and giving it to the poor and while
stealing is never a good thing it's always a noble cause and we aren't
you know the rich as in the entities of these massive uh
corporations that are you know taking over the world and
controlling everything that we do uh what was i gonna say here conspiracy
theory new channel um the politics of star wars
is similar in many ways of historical politics yeah and you have to realize
that when star wars came out it was a lot about the viet cong you
know it was a lot about not the yuuzhan vong but the vietcong um
which was in george's time you know 60s and 70s
when george made this movie was a reflection on
the times of that era which is something that he says
so and then of course you know the the liberation of america from the british
and all that and how it's always been the little guy
fighting against the bigger force the bigger power that's
trying to you know capture them um it's very relatable
it's all great stuff very david and goliath kind of story absolutely and
han solo i think is one of the most relatable characters because he is the
guy that's kind of out running the the empire and
pushing the boundaries in every sort of way where he's just
uh he is a bit of a scoundrel but you know what
that doesn't mean you're a bad person necessarily and then you got luke
skywalker who's always looking towards the horizon always trying to find his
next adventure sort of thing you know when he you know
he's looking at the twin sons he didn't know who he was and he was trying to
find himself at that point and then he eventually did and became
you know a jedi padawan i guess the yoda and then a jedi
knight you know he lost to his father and came back stronger and just
won over the galaxy by the help of his dad of course so
have a great day that's all i wanted to say um i don't know i feel like i'm more
relatable to chewie fair enough all right