And in the final blow, the movie’s bad guys were embraced by the very types of people he was warning against. Politicians and activists used it to make their arguments - sometimes for ideas that Lucas disagreed with. But like all art, movies have a way of escaping their creators’ intentions.Īs “Star Wars” and its sequels broke box office records, it became so popular that its characters, plot devices and lingo became a kind of cultural shorthand.
