> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Costanzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [gundam] (spoiler warning) Is there a corrolation between Gundam > 0079 and Moonraker? > Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:44:37 -0500 > > > I'm watching the James Bond film "Moonraker". The antagonist in this > film is Hugo Drax, a Bill Gates-rich man who owns a private space > exploration company similar to NASA. His "evil plan" is to breed a > master race, send them off to a space station, and kill everyone on > earth with nerve gas that doesn't affect plants or animals. Compare > this with the mentality of many of Zeon's top thinkers such as Char > and Ghiren, who both think the people living on earth should be > destroyed. Here's the catch, though: Moonraker was released in 1979, > the same year as Gundam. Any thoughts? >
This was hardly an original idea back in 1979. Hitler had a similar idea, with his racial purity and Germanic supermen theories (/cue "Super duper duper men!" from "Der Fuhrer's Face"...). He was, in fact, planning to liquidate (i.e. exterminate) the conquered Slavs in the Soviet Union as part of his plan for more "living space" for the German people. In fact, so far as I've seen to date, the only nations that he really had any respect for were Great Britain (which he considered more or less Germanic due to its Anglo-Saxon roots) and the US (which he viewed as having picked up the best and the brightest from the rest of the world in the previous centuries). Everyone else was going to end up dead sooner or later, with the residents of the Concentration Camps in the sooner category, and the rest of the world in the later category. In the movies, Duke Degwin even goes so far as to ask his son if he's familiar with National Socialism in order to hint at what the Duke thinks of Ghiren's ideas. junior -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 -------------------------------------------------- The Gundam Mailing List MK-II [email protected] Archives: http://www.gundam.com/gml Help: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this in the BODY: help list
