01-29-2018, 12:04 AM
Not all that surprising, as scriptwriters ordinarily create characters often composites of people that they knew, which usually means characters older that the people that they call for. An X writer surely knows Boomers far better than the Millennial Generation. Thus we get some distortion.
Just consider Star Wars: A New Hope. Obi Wan Kenobe is undeniably an idealist character, someone who knows that his time is practically up. The Emperor and the mercenary Han Solo are Reactive characters. Luke and Leia Skywalker are Civic.
Now for the irony -- the characters playing them are in real life two generations apart from their characters. Alec Guinness is a (civic) GI, and he didn't particularly like the role. He did it well enough, I'd say. James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader, is Silent, as is Harrison Ford. Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher are Boomers.
The Republic looks much like the UK in World War II, and the Empire looks much like Nazi Germany.
Just consider Star Wars: A New Hope. Obi Wan Kenobe is undeniably an idealist character, someone who knows that his time is practically up. The Emperor and the mercenary Han Solo are Reactive characters. Luke and Leia Skywalker are Civic.
Now for the irony -- the characters playing them are in real life two generations apart from their characters. Alec Guinness is a (civic) GI, and he didn't particularly like the role. He did it well enough, I'd say. James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader, is Silent, as is Harrison Ford. Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher are Boomers.
The Republic looks much like the UK in World War II, and the Empire looks much like Nazi Germany.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.