When Lucas began the prequel trilogy, he couldn’t have imagined the cataclysmic world events that would occur in between installments in the series. The original Star Wars trilogy was created in response to the Vietnam War despite wanting to reinvent the science fiction era of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, Lucas was also contributing to the story of Apocalypse Now, which would ultimately be directed by his best friend Francis Ford Coppola. A young Lucas attended marches and rallies, and in fact his directorial debut THX-1138 was an anti-authoritarian thriller about what happens when a totalitarian police state is given complete control over human interaction and free will.
It’s always fascinating to notice that despite the overt flaws in the dialogue, story structure, and character development in the prequels, George Lucas’ satire of American politics hadn’t dulled at all since his days as an experimental filmmaker at USC.
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