instal the new version for windows Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace

The mock-Japanese accents, as reprehensible as they are, get me thinking about the Japanese invasion of Manchuria: In September 1931, the Kwantung Army fabricated a Chinese nationalist attack on a Japanese railway in order to deceive the League of Nations about their subsequent invasion of the Chinese mainland. The Galactic Senate dispatches the two Jedi to mediate the dispute between the Trade Federation and Naboo. The aliens-a Neimoidian consortium known as the Trade Federation-launch a blockade over Naboo, a wealthy planet that the Trade Federation plans to invade. It all begins-it really does begin-with Obi-Wan Kenobi (!) and Qui-Gon Jinn (?) sitting down for tea together as a craft-services droid tries to murder them. The Phantom Menace really does begin with a bug-eyed alien speaking, in a mock-Japanese accent, about a commercial trade dispute.

Next up is Star Wars: Episode 1–The Phantom Menace, George Lucas’s much-maligned first prequel. Throughout the week, The Ringer will highlight some of the year’s best, most interesting films, and in this series, make the case for why a specific movie deserves to be called that year’s best.

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Instal the new version for windows Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace