The Original 'Star Wars' Trilogy Is Really Dark When You Think About It
Haters like to say that Star Wars is a movie franchise for children. Wrong! Lots of people are brutally murdered in these films. Honestly, it's dark shit. An orphan boy, whose aunt and uncle are murdered, is forced to fight in a war at a young age, gets dismembered by his father, and then is forced to fight to the death with his own dad. Oh, also entire fucking planets full of people are blown up. This isn't Dr. Seuss we're talking about!
Even the good guys aren't entirely innocent in these films. There's a joke from Clerks in which the main characters explore the morality of blowing up the second half-built Death Star in Return of the Jedi, which must have been full of innocent people just constructing the damn thing. "All those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed-casualties of a war they had nothing to do with," Randal says in the movie.
This theory doesn't even consider the morality of enslaving machines, who seem to have their own personalities, opinions, and consciousness. It really makes them less cute when you realize that C-3PO and R2-D2 are Luke's slaves. Can we also talk about the Stormtroopers? They're descended from the clone troopers, who were literally bred to do battle for whatever commander they served. These men had no control over their lives or even the horrible orders they followed. How many Stormtroopers did Luke, or Han, or Leia kill? Any one of these could have been an innocent man living the only life he's known (who knows if they killed someone like The Force Awakens' Finn?). Anyway, I didn't see the disembodied voice of Obi Wan asking Luke to consider the ethics of blindly murdering thousands of people on a space station he really knew very little about.
Yes, the Empire is bad, but if there's any moral to be taken away from Star Wars, it's that war makes villains of us all. Even wars in space.
Yes! Senseless death. So, how many people, actually, die in the original three Star Wars films? It's almost impossible to even count, considering the mass destruction of entire planets and space stations. The nerds at Digg, however, have put together compilation of every single death in the original trilogy. While the number of casualties on Alderaan and both Death Stars are just estimates, the death count in those three movies is approximately 2,005,645,868. This video, which shows every death in under three minutes, is old, but it's worth sharing on today, May 4th (get it?), when we can have a moment of silence for all these fictional space people.
[h/t: Digg]
Haters like to say that Star Wars is a movie franchise for children. Wrong! Lots of people are brutally murdered in these films. Honestly, it's dark shit. An orphan boy, whose aunt and uncle are murdered, is forced to fight in a war at a young age, gets dismembered by his father, and then is forced to fight to the death with his own dad. Oh, also entire fucking planets full of people are blown up. This isn't Dr. Seuss we're talking about!
Even the good guys aren't entirely innocent in these films. There's a joke from Clerks in which the main characters explore the morality of blowing up the second half-built Death Star in Return of the Jedi, which must have been full of innocent people just constructing the damn thing. "All those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed-casualties of a war they had nothing to do with," Randal says in the movie.
This theory doesn't even consider the morality of enslaving machines, who seem to have their own personalities, opinions, and consciousness. It really makes them less cute when you realize that C-3PO and R2-D2 are Luke's slaves. Can we also talk about the Stormtroopers? They're descended from the clone troopers, who were literally bred to do battle for whatever commander they served. These men had no control over their lives or even the horrible orders they followed. How many Stormtroopers did Luke, or Han, or Leia kill? Any one of these could have been an innocent man living the only life he's known (who knows if they killed someone like The Force Awakens' Finn?). Anyway, I didn't see the disembodied voice of Obi Wan asking Luke to consider the ethics of blindly murdering thousands of people on a space station he really knew very little about.
Yes, the Empire is bad, but if there's any moral to be taken away from Star Wars, it's that war makes villains of us all. Even wars in space.
Yes! Senseless death. So, how many people, actually, die in the original three Star Wars films? It's almost impossible to even count, considering the mass destruction of entire planets and space stations. The nerds at Digg, however, have put together compilation of every single death in the original trilogy. While the number of casualties on Alderaan and both Death Stars are just estimates, the death count in those three movies is approximately 2,005,645,868. This video, which shows every death in under three minutes, is old, but it's worth sharing on today, May 4th (get it?), when we can have a moment of silence for all these fictional space people.
[h/t: Digg]
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