![]() ![]() Star Wars tells the story of a dominant-species empire arising from a pluralistic society, then being overthrown by courageous rebels and warrior monks. actually existed in a galaxy long, long ago (etc.), and that George Lucas accessed this history via the Force and wanted to represent it on film. Why represent them as human? Let’s assume that the Star Wars movies are dramatizations of real history: that Luke, Leia, Han et. ![]() If we don’t want to go all “Chariots of the Gods?” we have to throw out the notion that the people represented by human actors in Star Wars movies are in fact human. Human beings evolved on this planet, Sol 3, over the last sixty million years or so depending on how you count. We’re a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. This should be obvious from the title card. ![]()
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