Vader Vendor

from wall street journal

Director George Lucas is worried about American "cultural imperialism." In a speech to the World Affairs Council in San Francisco on Wednesday, he cited the lifestyles portrayed on "Dallas" as an example of how Hollywood irresponsibly infects the minds of poor people overseas. "They say, 'That is what I want to be' . . . [and] that destabilizes a lot of the world," AFP quotes him as saying. U.S. filmmakers should be more careful about the messages they send, Mr. Lucas added. Marketers, too, presumably, since a lot of poor people in other countries probably see Mr. Lucas's "Star Wars" line of products and think: "That is what I want to have."

I know that I totally wanted my own spaceship and wookie co-pilot after I watched Star Wars.


I also totally wanted to make out with my sister.