Showing posts with label Darth Vader. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Darth Vader. Show all posts

Wednesday 21 December 2016

The Ultimate Father

The Old Man Must Die -
and The New Man will Discover, to His Inexpressible Joy, 
That He Has Never Existed. 
"But ultimately, we all know that Darth Vader’s more powerful than he is.

He’s The Ultimate Father Who is All Powerful.






THE SON BECOMES THE FATHER, AND THE FATHER THE SON.

DO WHAT THOU WILT SHALL BE THE WHOLE OF THE LAW;

LOVE IS THE LAW - LOVE UNDER WILL.


AS ABOVE, SO BELOW



It's Christmas in Heaven, 
There's Great Films on TV!
'The Sound of Music', Twice an Hour, 
and 'Jaws' I, II and III.


GEORGE LUCAS: 
It’s essentially The Same in a Different Kind of Way. 
Darth Vader was a — A Composite Man

I mean, he was… Half-Machine, Half-Man. 

And that’s where he lost a lot of his Humanity is that he — you know, he has mechanical legs. 

You know — and he has mechanical arms possibly and he’s hooked up to a breathing machine. 

So there’s not much, actually, Human left in him. 

This one is all Human. 

And I wanted him to be like An Alien, but I wanted him to be Human enough that we could identify with — with him. 

Because he’s not a — a — a sort of a monster we can’t identify with

He’s…

BILL MOYERS: 
He’s us.

GEORGE LUCAS: 
…he’s — yeah. 

He’s The Evil within us.

BILL MOYERS:
 I’ve had psychotherapists tell me that they use “Star Wars” sometimes to deal with the problems of their child patients. 

And they’ve said that the most popular character among the children is  
Darth Vader.

GEORGE LUCAS: 
Well, Children Love Power because Children are The Powerless. 


And so their fantasies all centre on having Power. 

And who’s more Powerful than Darth Vader, you know? 

And, some, you know, will be attracted to Luke Skywalker because he’s The Good Guy
 
But ultimately, we all know that Darth Vader’s more Powerful than he is.

And as time goes on, you discover that 

He is more powerful because he’s the — 


He’s The Ultimate Father Who is All Powerful.
 

BILL MOYERS: 
This is where I disagree somewhat with our friend Joseph Campbell who said that :

" The Young Man has to slay His Father before he can become an adult himself. "

It seems to me, and I think you’re right on here, that — 

The Young Man has to identify — 
has to recognize and acknowledge that 

He is His Father and is not His Father.


"TO BE OR NOT TO BE?"



GEORGE LUCAS: 
You know, Joe used to talk about the — the basic issues that — that — that create the Mystery of Life. 


Of, you know, birth and death, and I like to always add, you know, your relationship with your parents.



BILL MOYERS: 
Do you know yet what is going to be the transforming of Anakin Skywalker into Darth Vader?

GEORGE LUCAS:
 Yeah.

BILL MOYERS: 
You already know that?

GEORGE LUCAS: 
Yeah, I know what that is. 
And it’s — it’s — it’s sprinkled throughout this episode. 


ANAKIN SKYWALKER DOESN'T HAVE A FATHER - AT ALL.


AND HE MAY ONLY HAVE A BIRTH-MOTHER, BEFORE ESSENTIALLY BEING ORPAHNED IN EPISODE I 

(a fact which becomes concrete during the course of Episode II) - 

IF HIS CONCEPTION WAS THE RESULT OF A 'VERGENCE IN THE FORCE', IT'S PERFECTLY POSSIBLE THAT SHIMI SKYWALKER IS JUST A VESSEL OR A LIVING FORCE-ARK ACTING AS A SURROGATE FOR SOMETHING ELSE, PERHAPS THE FORCE ITSELF, FROM AMONGST THE PANTHEON OF THE INVISIBLE.


I mean, it’s — it’s all of the — the groundwork’s been laid in this episode. 


And the — the film is ultimately about the Dark Side and the light side, and those sides are designed around Compassion and Greed


GREED IS GOOD.

Gekko
Well, I appreciate the opportunity you're giving me Mr. Cromwell as the single largest shareholder in Teldar Paper, to speak.
Well, ladies and gentlemen we're not here to indulge in fantasy but in political and economic reality.

America, America has become a second-rate power.

Its trade deficit and its fiscal deficit are at nightmare proportions. Now, in the days of the free market when our country was a top industrial power, there was accountability to the stockholder.

The Carnegies, the Mellons, the men that built this great industrial empire, made sure of it because it was their money at stake.

Today, management has no stake in the company! 

All together, these men sitting up here own less than three percent of the company.
And where does Mr. Cromwell put his million-dollar salary?
Not in Teldar stock; he owns less than one percent.

You own The company. That's right, You, The Stockholder.
And you are all being royally screwed over by these, these bureaucrats, with their luncheons, their hunting and fishing trips, their corporate jets and golden parachutes.

Cromwell: 
This is an outrage! You're out of line Gekko!

Gekko: 
Teldar Paper, Mr. Cromwell, Teldar Paper has 33 different vice presidents each earning over 200 thousand dollars a year.
Now, I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and I still can't figure it out.
One thing I do know is that our paper company lost 110 million dollars last year, and I'll bet that half of that was spent in all the paperwork going back and forth between all these Vice-Presidents.

The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest.

Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated.

In the last seven deals that I've been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of 12 billion dollars.
 Thank you.

 I am not a Destroyer of Companies. 

I am a Liberator of them! 

The point is, ladies and gentleman, that Greed, for lack of a better word, is Good. 

Greed is right, Greed works. 

Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. 

Greed, in all of its forms; Greed for Life, for Money, for Love, Knowledge has marked the upward surge of Mankind. 
 
And Greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. 

Thank you very much.


CHO-JE:
 We can but point a finger along the way.
A Man must go inside and face His fears and hopes, his Hates and his loves, and watch them wither away.
Then he will find his True Self, which is No Self.
He will see his True Mind, which is No Mind.

SARAH:
And that's what meditation's all about?

CHO-JE:
Yes! The Old Man must die, and The New Man will discover, to his inexpressible joy, that he has never existed. 

SARAH: 
Well, good luck, mate.

MIKE: 
I think I'm going to need it.

SARAH
But if you do start ferreting about in your subconscious, aren't you going to turn up all sorts of nasties? I mean, complexes, phobias and what have you? 

CHO-JE: 
Of course, The Demons and The Divinities. 
But in our way, the Vajrayana Way, we use the powers to help us. 
If we will excuse me, it's time for the meditation class. 

MIKE: 
But couldn't that be dangerous? If these, these powers were used wrongly. 

CHO-JE: 
It could be so, yes. 
By evil men in their ignorance and craving, it could indeed be most dangerous. 

MIKE:
I see.

CHO-JE:
Such a thing could never happen here.

****

SARAH:
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, Doctor.

DOCTOR:
What have you got to be sorry about? You did very well. You should be proud of yourself.

SARAH:
To let that creature take me over like that. I mean, I actually volunteered.

K'ANPO:
We are all apt to surrender ourselves to domination. Even the strongest of us.

DOCTOR: Do you mean me?

K'ANPO: Not all spiders sit on the back.

SARAH: Oh, I don't understand. You're not saying they've taken over the Doctor, are you?


DOCTOR: 
Oh no, Sarah, no. 
No, he's talking about my Greed. 

SARAH:
Greed? You?

DOCTOR:
Yes, my Greed for knowledge, for information. He's saying that all this is basically my fault. If I hadn't taken the crystal in the first place.
I know who you are now...!

K'ANPO: You were always a little slow on the uptake, my boy.

DOCTOR: It's been a long, long time.

SARAH: You know each other?

DOCTOR:
Oh, yes.
Yes, he was my teacher. My, my guru, if you like.
In another time, another place.

K'ANPO:
Another life.

SARAH:
Oh, no. Don't tell me you're a Time Lord too?

K'ANPO:
I am. But the discipline they serve was not for me.

DOCTOR:
No. Nor for me.

K'ANPO:
I wouldn't have chosen your alternative. To borrow a TARDIS was a little naughty, to say the least.

DOCTOR:
Yes, well, I had to get away. I hadn't your power.

K'ANPO: Indeed. I regenerated and came to Earth, to Tibet.

SARAH:
Regenerated?

DOCTOR:
Yes. Yes, when a Time Lord's body wears out, he regenerates, becomes new.

K'ANPO:
That is why we can live such a long time.

SARAH:
I see. Well, what about Cho-Je? 
Is he a Time Lord, too?

K'ANPO:
In a sense. In another sense, he doesn't exist. 

SARAH:
You've lost me.

DOCTOR:
....Me too, I'm afraid.

K'ANPO:
Cho-Je is a projection of my own self.

"And we all have those two sides of us and that we have to make sure that those two sides of us are in balance.

BILL MOYERS: 
I think it’s going to be very hard for the audience to accept that this innocent cherub almost of a — of a boy, who’s playing Anakin Skywalker, can ever be capable of the things that we know happen later on. 

And I’m sure you’ll take care of that but, you know, I look at Hitler and wonder what did he look like at eight years old, or Stalin …

GEORGE LUCAS: 
Mm-hmm …

BILL MOYERS:
 … or …

GEORGE LUCAS: 
Well, there are lots of — 

There’s a lot of people like that. 


I mean, you just —  
You see them all the time  
and you — that’s what I wonder :

I wonder, 
How can those people possibly exist


How could they live with themselves? 


How could they — 

You know, what is it in The Human Brain that gives us the capacity to be as Evil as Human Beings have been in The Past and are right now.

BILL MOYERS: 
Well, you’ve been probing that for a good while now.

GEORGE LUCAS: 
Yeah.

BILL MOYERS: 
Twenty-five years. 

Have you come to any conclusions?

GEORGE LUCAS: 
I haven’t.



The Son :
Father... if You can hear Me... 
I failed... I've failed You, I've failed Myself... and all humanity. 
I've traded my birthright... for a life of submission in a world ruled by Your enemies... 
There's nobody left to help them now... the people of the world... since I... 

FATHER!

Father!! 
Farther!! 
Father!! 
Farther!!

Father, into Your hands I commend My spirit,
Father, into Your hands -

Why have You forsaken Me?

In Your eyes, forsaken Me?

In Your thoughts, forsaken Me?

In Your heart forsaken, Me, oh -

Trust in My Self-Righteous Suicide.

I cry, 
When angels deserve to die in My Self-Righteous Suicide

I cry,
When angels deserve to die.


[as The Son starts to walk away from the crystal console, the remaining crystal starts to glow, he puts it into the crystal console, The Father appears]

 The Father: 

Listen carefully my son... for we shall never speak again... if you hear Me now... then You have used the only means left to You... the crystal source in which our communications begun... 

The Circle is now Complete.


When I left You, I was but The Learner, now I am The Master.
"Our Rob, or Ross."

The Father: 
. You have made a dreadful mistake Kal-El... 
You Did This of Your Own Free Will... 
In spite of all I could say to dissuade You...

The Son : 
I... uh...

The Father : 
Now you return to Me for one last chance to redeem Yourself... 
This, too, I have finally anticipated, My Son... 
Look at Me, Kal-El... 
Once before when You were small, I died while giving you a chance for life, and even now though it will exhaust the final energy left within Me

The Son : 
[broken on the verge of tears, turns his head] Father... no...

The Father: 
Look at me Kal-El... 

The Kryptonian Prophecy will at last be fulfilled... 

The Son Becomes The Father...
 The Father Becomes The Son... 

Farewell forever, Kal-El... 
Remember Me, My Son...

Jor-El disappears and reappears next to Kal-El in full form, he places his hand on his shoulder 

The Father :
My Son...

The Son is Reborn as God ]



" The Young Man has to slay his father before he can become an adult himself. "


It seems to me, and I think you’re right on here, that the 

— that

The Young Man has to identify — 

has to recognize and acknowledge that 


He is His Father and is not His Father.

"TO BE OR NOT TO BE?"

The Initiate :
No, That's not True.
That's Impossible.
I Don't Believe it.

The Master :
This, is why You Fail.



Rimmer Sr:
Arnold, I'm not your father.

Rimmer:
But that's impossible! 
It's not true!

Rimmer Sr:
Look inside yourself and you will know I speak the truth. 
Your father wasn't me, it's Dungo, our gardener.

Rimmer:
But he's a babbling imbecile!

Lister:
A billion-piece jigsaw suddenly falls into beautiful place....





Blind Drunk Lister (Video Recording) :
You're turned out to be a terrible disappointment to me, David.


From now on, if you are to continue to live under My Roof, You are going to have to learn to abide by My Rules.

It's time for Tough Love - time for a taste of Daddy Discipline.

Hungover Lister :
This is so unfair! I hate you!!


Lister: 
I remember when my dad died, y'know. 
I was only six. 
I got loads of presents off everyone like it was Christmas. 

I remember wishing a couple more people would die so I could complete my Lego set. 

My grandma tried to explain, you know. 

She said he'd gone away and he wasn't coming back. 
So, I wanted to know where, like, you know. She said he was very happy and he'd gone to the same place as my goldfish. 

So I thought they'd flushed him down the bog. 

I thought he was just round the U bend, you know. 

I used to stuff food down, you know, and magazines and that for him to read. 

They took me to a child psychologist in the end because they found me with my head down the bowl reading him the football results.

Cat: 
Yeoooowwww!!! 
My stomach has been pumped and now I'm hungry. 
Hey, there you are! 
Hey man, I'm so hungry, I just have to eat!!

Lister: 
Shhhhh!!! Rimmer's dad's just died.

Cat: 
Well, I'd prefer a chicken....


Lister: 
You never said much about him. 
You must have been pretty close.

Rimmer: 
Close?

Lister: 
Sorry, very close.

Rimmer: 
Close...? 

I hated him! 

Lister: 
Eh..?!

Rimmer: 
I detested his fat, stupid guts, the pop-eyed, balding git!

Lister: 
Why are you so completely blown away about him dying then?

Rimmer: 
Oh, it doesn't mean to say I didn't respect him, didn't look up to him. 
It was only natural, he was my father.

Lister: 
There's nothing natural about your family, Rimmer.

[ Yeah, takes one to know one... ]

All Criticism is Autobiography.


Dig Yourself.


"For a long time, you'll think that you were abandoned, but you weren't, man. 

You were put here to create a paradox, an unbreakable circle. 

With us going 'round and 'round in time, the human race can never become extinct. 

We're like... a kind of holding pattern. 

I'll see ya, son.




Kryten :
"Mum"... I never had a Mum...

Holly :

[ Her Tiara Askew
I never had a Mum, neither...



[everyone is drunk]

Rimmer: 
Well, I'd have thought it was obvious. 
Two people, unable to contain their desires, had an illicit liaison. 
A liaison, that an unforgiving society would not accept. 
And you were the fruit of their forbidden passion. 
You're forbidden passion fruit.

Lister: 
What are you saying, Rimmer?

Rimmer
I'm saying that there is a very real possibility that your parents were brother and sister.

Lister: 
Hey. I'm baring my Innermost, here!

Rimmer
How many toes have you got?

Lister
Ten.

Cat: 
Yeah, on both feet!

Lister: 
Altogether!

Kryten: 
They're not webbed or anything are they?

Lister:
 Look, they weren't related, all right?

[Kryten falls off his chair]




[ It is the day before Father's Day, and so, by long tradition, Lister needs to get blind drunk before making himself a card, so he can have Kryten hand-deliver it to him the following year. ]

Rimmer: 
And what are you doing today that makes you so "busy"?

Lister: 
I'm getting drunk!

Rimmer: 
That's your day?


Lister:
Not just any old drunk. 
I'm talking traffic-cone hugging, pavement licking kershnickered. 
That's my day, cheers!



Rimmer Sr.: 
I just wanted to say...

Rimmer: 
Yes...?

Rimmer Sr: 
I just wanted to say...

Rimmer: 
What?

Rimmer Sr: 
You're a total smeghead!

Rimmer: 
What?! This isn't my fantasy!


Cat: 
No. It's mine!

[ Robs Rimmer's Havana cigar out of his hand and scarpers. ]