Carl Sagan SLAMS ‘racist, chauvinistic, unscientific’ Star Wars in classic interview WATCH
STAR WARS is ‘racist, chauvinistic and unscientific’, according to the late Carl Sagan in a throwback interview.
Carl Sagan's Cosmos Life on Jupiter
The 20th century scientist appeared in an unearthed Tonight Show episode with Johnny Carson from 1978.
A year after the first ever Star Wars film was released, Sagan lashed out at the popular movie for getting science wrong, before accusing it of white supremacy and chauvinism.
The late scientist said: “Star Wars starts out saying it’s in some other galaxy and then you see there’s people.
“Starting in scene one there’s a problem because human beings are a result of a unique evolutionary sequence based on so many individual and, likely, random events on the Earth.”
Carl Sagan SLAMS ‘racist, chauvinistic, unscientific’ Star Wars in throwback interview WATCH
Sagan continued: “It’s extremely unlikely that there would be creatures as similar to us as the dominant ones in Star Wars.
“There’s a whole bunch of other things: They’re all white.
“The skin of all the humans in Star Wars, oddly enough, is like this [gesturing to his own skin].
“Not even the other colours represented on the Earth are present. Much less greens and blues and purples and oranges.”
Host Johnny Carson then asked: “They did have a scene in Star Wars with a lot of strange characters.”
Sagan replied: “But none of them seemed to be in charge of the galaxy. “Everybody who seemed to be in charge of the galaxy looked like us.
“I thought there was a large amount of human chauvinism.”
With the racial diversity and lead female roles in The Force Awakens and Rogue One, perhaps Sagan would have prefered the latest Star Wars entries.
Nevertheless Titantic and Avatar James Cameron slammed Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, after its release for repeating the storyline of the original 1977 film.
Carl Sagan pointed out how white humans rule the galaxy instead of aliens
Both The Force Awakens and Rogue One have been hailed for racial diversity and leading female roles
In the interview Sagan also pointed out something from the closing scene of A New Hope that many a Star Wars fan has had a problem with over the years.
“Also, I felt very bad at the end…the Wookie didn’t get a medal also.
“All the people got medals and the Wookie, who had been in their fighting all the time, he didn’t get any medal.
He dead panned: “I thought that was an example of anti-Wookie discrimination.”