George Lucas Wrote ‘Star Wars’ as a Liberal Warning. Then Conservatives Struck Back
George Lucas Wrote 'Star Wars' as a Liberal Warning. Then Conservatives Struck Back When George Lucas sat down in early 1973 to draft an operatic science fiction movie about a ragtag group of rebels fighting a corrupt central government, the trial of the Watergate burglars had just begun. He wrote “Star Wars” reflecting the fraught politics of that moment, hoping to serve a tidy political lesson along with the popcorn. […]







