The Death Star and the Twin Towers

The Death Star and the Twin Towers

In my quest of trying to do this journal I was practically frustrated, because I haven’t found I theme that I really liked to work on. Actually I decided to saw a film instead of doing it, because I didn’t really understand the model of argumentation. Then I started to see a movie called Clerks, this film isn’t a great film with all the aspects of an Oscar winning film, but is a little film that makes you think in a lot of things differently.

The events of the film that I am going to be talking of are: one scene, were the two main protagonists were arguing over the “Death Star Employees”. One of the protagonists is Dante, the guy who wants to move on and have a life and the other is Randal, a guy that is kind of happy with his life. The argument that they were using was, whether or not the employees on that construction of the second Death Stat deserved or not to die. One of them was claiming that yes, because they were working to the evil Empire and they deserved what happened to them. Later a man enters the store were Dante works and said that the workers of the Second Death Star were constructer workers, mainly sub-contracted by the Empire to reconstruct the Death Star and they were trying to do their job to bring food to the tables of their homes. These workers have nothing to do with the Empire or the Emperor evil plans of destroying everything that could overthrow the Galactic Empire. But this is just a speculation, but this makes me think on the Twin Towers and the fact that we only see things in a macro perspective. The workers of the Twin Towers have nothing to do with the actual president administration, but the Twin Towers were representing the economical power of the actual administration. So we could say that the Twin Towers were like the Second Death Star also that the terrorist were like the Rebel Alliance and Bin Laden is like Luke Skywalker.

I am not saying that Bin laden is a hero; I really believe that he is a coward. Skywalker is a guy that have a motive and the first time that he destroy the Death Star he was aware that it was a military position and all the people that were in the base were military personal and military personal such as soldiers were aware of the risk of working on a military base, it can be attack at any time. The Second Death Star is a little different scenario, is a military base that was on construction and not all the personal that was working there were military personal, but the Emperor himself was inspecting the final stages of the construction of the Second Death Star. Yet again, the Second Death Star was a military base and if you work at a military base, you have to know that there is a risk that you could be killed at any time. Like I said before, Bin Laden is a coward, because the Twin Towers were not a military point and he wasn’t even there.

I know that Clerks is a comedy I think that the film have a lot to say, is one movie that you can see it 4 or 5 time and you will find something new. Like the Star Wars Original Trilogy, I have seen it so many times that I can even act every single scene.

References.

Lucas George, Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope, (1977)

Lucas George, Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi, (1983)

Smith Kevin, Clerks, (1996)