Outinleftfield
23rd September 2009, 06:05
In Spaceballs Spaceball is the United States. Its abused and exploited its own resources(air) and needs to steal them from Druidia which represents a third world country with a somewhat backwards bourgeois government (shown my the medieval king and the snobby princess). It also shows how drug companies exploit have control of the government through lobbying and how they exploit us and try to stamp out alternatives with how she's about to marry Prince Valium. His sleepiness could also show how the mass media wants to keep people distracted and uninterested in radical change.
The princess running away is her rejecting the capitalist values portrayed by Prince Valium. Her relationship with the main character shows how her rejection of traditional mainstream values leads her away from her snobby rich attitude and to support the working class in struggle. Her marriage at the end shows how her values are completely changed.
Also her choice to leave in the end saves Druidia from losing all its air. It shows that third world countries must reject the importation of American imperialism or face a great loss of resources(air) and the starvation and death that comes from it. This is true. There have been many places in third world countries that looked forward to the opening of an American factory because it was bringing jobs but then they destroyed the land and environment and eventually closed and packed up. They left them in worse poverty than they were before.
You can also see the president's incompetence as a metaphor for our own government's incompetence.
The princess running away is her rejecting the capitalist values portrayed by Prince Valium. Her relationship with the main character shows how her rejection of traditional mainstream values leads her away from her snobby rich attitude and to support the working class in struggle. Her marriage at the end shows how her values are completely changed.
Also her choice to leave in the end saves Druidia from losing all its air. It shows that third world countries must reject the importation of American imperialism or face a great loss of resources(air) and the starvation and death that comes from it. This is true. There have been many places in third world countries that looked forward to the opening of an American factory because it was bringing jobs but then they destroyed the land and environment and eventually closed and packed up. They left them in worse poverty than they were before.
You can also see the president's incompetence as a metaphor for our own government's incompetence.