Analysis of Star Wars: Conclusion

History does tend to repeat itself, and so the Star War saga could have been a much greater success had it been a more honest depiction of human history. Instead, Lucas started with the best intentions, and then failed to follow up on his own foundations, trying to build a sort of abstract work of art instead of a classic study of the human condition, which is ultimately why he failed to realize his own story in a meaningful way. He failed to tell the story that we were waiting to hear, and instead sort of trailed off randomly and disappointingly after getting us to sit up and pay attention. Lucas might have been channeling Joseph Campbell's Hero, but Lucas did not fully appreciate the rich tapestry of human history that he was drawing from, and so began to get sloppy and insular in his depiction of events. One might even argue that his childish obstinacy got in the way of telling what might have been a truly great story. Rather than allowing the Force to work through him, he became the tyrannical Empire, his conscious decisions forcing the story in an unnatural, linear, boring direction. Rather than taking cues from history, he improvised a history that would simultaneously explain his previous glory and also justify the paradoxical world view that comes from being infected with communism. The Star Wars saga failed because Lucas failed to cure his own memetic infection, and thereby became a slave to the dominant ideology of Hollywood.