Laser-brain, scruffy looking nerf-herder, some-day you'll screw up and I don't want to be around to see it. So romantic.
Watching Star Wars, I'm feeling completely nostalgic to enjoying the movies with my parents who had gone to the originals when they were young.
The movies been mocked endlessly from the Family Guy to dirty jokes, improbabilities and film editing incontuiaties. With all that said, it's still an epic tale by a great writer which is adored by fans around the world.
The stories are full of adventure, mystery and fantasy, the banter cheeky and the space age technology a backdrop to human experience and emotions.
Being over 30 years, the imagination of technology yet to come was mixed with the real. In Tattoine, there were moisture extrators on the farm. At the end of Empire Strikes Back, a deck officer makes notes on his tablet, writing with a stylus. That concept didn't become a product until the end of the 80's. The holograms and tele-conferencing now are in Skype.
May have seen the first three movies a few too many times, as I know too many of the lines. To the point where I might slip them into conversation by accident. Old Jedi mind tricks, having a bad feelings about this, not knowing the true power of the dark side, or would rather kiss a wookie.
Epic saber duals and huge battles melding together as the movies stand on their own and interweave into a bigger story. From the classic first one to the film noire second act and the third epic ending.
Devious traps, courageous rescues, cruel torture, edge of seat drama, surprise twists, Star Wars set the bar high for sci-fi special effects, story-telling and characters' development.
The impacts could be argued of Star Wars phenomenon on western culture. With its collective memories and prequels spawning so many fan-fiction, video games, books and comics. As the prequels come out again in 3D, LucasArts raises the technology bar again.
Not going to buy tickets to see those though, as I'm much more fond of the old ones: Amazing chemistry of actors, classy script writing and composing of near operatic spectical before purist cinematic huge scale of space travel with puppets, models, and hand-painted matte backgrounds.
So relax and enjoy the magic of a beautifully woven tale. But warning, watching all of the movies is a trap! So worth it like a Wookie lunch stuck in an Ewok net ^_^
--PLR--
p.s. photo credit as I sadly can't shoot a photo in that universe... I'd buy the wookie a drink and let him win battle chess ^_^
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