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RC2 at Wheat & Weeds fisks up Revenge of the Sith, and finds… Religious parallels abound!

A nice surprise, however, is that Lucas manages a terrific evocation of the seduction of evil. I could hardly have asked for a better portrait of it to discuss with my kids. Ian McDarmid’s Sith Lord/Chancellor Palpatine behaves just like the serpent in the garden.

Poor George. He hoped for a stinging blow against Bushitlertonmonkey to gain favour with the Euro-Cannes crowd of artistes who have shunned him and his splashy, mainstream ways, and got a parable against evil that good Catholic women will use to teach their children with. Hah!

I liked this comment:

Take out the battle scenes and the 2 hour flick would be down to about half an hour, probably.

It’s just like those old musicals from the 50s. Take out the half-hour song-and-dance, the extended ballet routine, and the tender 15-minute duet, and all you’ve got is a half hour of half-decent plot and not very good dialogue.

So musicals went out one window, but special-effects came in the other. How balanced this universe is. Endless and eternal equilibrium.

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