Why 'Star Wars?' (evaluation of Star Wars trilogy)

Interview | April 1, 1997| | Copyright

Released three years before Ronald Reagan was elected president, Star Wars was invoked by him in 1983 as shorthand for the SDI nuclear-defense project - the one that, had it come to fruition, would have zapped all those incoming commie missiles out of the sky. One can imagine Reagan lying in bed at night in the White House, muttering, "May the Force be with us, Nancy." Thus, for a moment, America's dream of global hegemony was collapsed with its favorite myth, the Star Wars myth.

Fourteen years later, Reagan's Cold War imperative seems like a relic of Manifest Destiny, ...

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