![]() I’m not a fan of any of these three movies, but they just might help us understand the present.Īnd they just might help us understand - sorry for the very 2017 headline I’m about to drop on you - the rise of Donald Trump. ![]() ![]() ![]() In some bizarre way, The Phantom Menace - the first Star Wars prequel, released 20 years ago, on anticipates every major sociopolitical and cultural movement of the 21st century, something that only becomes more obvious with the two movies that follow it (2002’s Attack of the Clones and 2005’s Revenge of the Sith). If the first Star Wars trilogy was a rousing adventure tale about a boy who becomes the promised leader, the prequels are a dark meditation on how chosen ones can be evil, too. It’s a little stomach-churning to watch the prequels and realize that you’re seeing the mega-blockbuster glut that’s currently running rampant over Hollywood begin its mutation into its current form.īut look past all of that - and it’s a lot to look past - and you’ll find three films that are weirdly concerned with political questions, with ideas about how best to divvy up power, and which tell a strangely prescient story about how inequality can breed fascism. Some of that timeliness stems from something Emily Yoshida wrote about at Vulture, which is the extreme confluence of commerce and art they represented when they were made, and which has since taken over Hollywood. ![]() The obvious next step for the Star Wars franchise: reboot the prequels ![]()
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