/ Cory Doctorow / 11:29 pm Tue Nov 2, 2010

Star Wars Revisionism: it was all Jar-Jar's fault

This cute Lego Star Wars video presents a revisionist look at the original Star Wars trilogy in which the prime moving force was the off-stage bumbling of Jar-Jar Binks.

(via Super Punch)

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  1. Awesome! Cory, have you seen Adywan’s intricate re-edits of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back? Check out this specific clip where Alderaan is blown up in with extra detail.

    Hint: Guess who is on Alderaan when it happens?

  3. Actually, it *was* all Jar-Jar’s fault.

    “Mesa mosto Supreme Chancellor… Mesa gusto pallos. Mesa proud to proposing the motion to give yousa Honor emergency powers.”

    What a jerk!

  5. very cute. is this a fan made thing? or produced by the good people at Lego?

    really, really wanted jar jar to get some comeuppance though. the twat.

    1. It’s an official Lego movie – look at all the danish animators in the subtitles.

      They do these shorts for all their licenced minifigs. The message they’re conveying is that you get to remix the famous story to your own liking with their toys.
      So the next item will probably be some Harry Potter Lego minifig slash fiction…

  6. That reminded me that Star Wars isn’t really science fiction or even fantasy, it’s pure fairy tale. Seeing it with the simplified figures made that clear.

    1. But all of the best movies always are, whatever their putative “genre”!

      A movie IS its emotional structure – as can be also said for all fairy tales, or even dreams.

  8. My original theory going into episode III (and I knew George Lucas wasn’t awesome enough to do it, but still!) was that Jar Jar Binks as the true Dark Lord of the Sith.

    Think about it. Jar Jar meets the Jedi in Episode I and orchestrates everything that happens from there. He’s also responsible for the emperor’s rise to power and would have primary knowledge of what the Jedi were up to through his friends.

    It would have been awesome when he’d revealed himself. People would have realized they’d been duped, and he would have gone down as one of the greatest villains of all time. People would have cheered as his lightsaber came out, and people would have cheered as he’d died. Episode III actually might not have sucked so much.

    But, alas…

  10. The intro text, which scrolls past too quickly to read:

    EPISODE ?

    BOMBAD BOUNTY

    It is a period of ciwil war.
    And war, as everybody
    knows, makes things dirty.
    Really, really, dirty. Like
    absolutely filthy.

    Just nineteen years ago,
    everything was so clean
    and shiny and polished.
    And now look at it. It’s a
    real shame.

    Fortunately for the galaxy,
    there is a NEW HOPE.
    A hope… With a mop.

    Boss Nass cleaners.
    Scrubbing the galaxy clean,
    One system at a time….

  11. It wa actually all Yoda’s fault. The allegedly wisest being in the galaxy was a frakking dumbass. “Powerful is young Anakin, but train him I will not.” “Obi-Wan, you go kill Vader, I will go kill Palpatine. It makes no sense for us to take on Palpatine together here then go get Vader together.” “Luke, information I will withhold from you. Tell you I will not that if a Sith shoots lightning at you, your lightsaber will deflect it. Throw away your lightsaber not!” Yeesh.

  13. I love legos and star wars and all combinations of the two….Up till now, as an old school star wars buff, the sting of betrayal from jar-jar still fuels the hot furnaces of hate deep within my soul…

  15. I always love it when adults complain that movies made for children don’t live up their standards.

    1. Somehow the original Star Wars managed to appeal to everyone. Just because it’s for children doesn’t mean it has an excuse to be bad, and it probably gives it less excuse for things like cheap ethnic stereotyping.

  16. I’m not sure that the original trilogy was for Children. At least not Star Wars nor Empire Strikes Back.

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