Posted on 05/04/2014 2:13:54 PM PDT by Dallas59
Now that the cast of the seventh "Star Wars" movie has been announced, you can imagine the anticipation among the millions of fans of the film franchise. And why not? The six "Star Wars" films have been enormous successes: they have grossed over $2 billion domestically at the box office, spawned scores of books, comic books and merchandise (how many kids have their own light saber?) and made household names of characters like Darth Vader, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker.
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Star Wars is nothing but Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon for a later generation. It created nothing unique. It was the Beatlemania of its day. And Elvis’ manager preceded that.
Commercialization is nothing new.
“We drove over an hour to the movies,”
Funny thing is I WORKED at a UA theater at the time. I can’t recall how I managed to miss the movie.
What a movie snob.
Theodore Dalrymple, the British author, has some interesting reports about Shakespeare in Africa, and so does the actress Dame Judi Dench.
The themes of human life never change. The Bible, obviously, is a uniquely inspired source, but Shakespeare and Homer are uniquely gifted human descriptors.
Audiences react to the themes of real life. Shakespeare and Homer and Greek tragedians get a good audience to this day, especially if an effort is made to modernize language. Writers of other drama, even something as utterly pop as “Hercules,” understand that you get a committed audience by presenting characters people care about in situations that reflect or amplify the concerns of everyone’s lives.
Have you read her “Eric John Stark” fiction? It’s amazing, and she published much more great writing.
LOL! “Back in the day,” the 1940s, every little town in NE Missouri had a movie house. In my dad’s hometown ... too small for a theater ... they’d get a movie in by train and project it on the wall of the electrical generator house. My grandfather, the air-raid warden, would issue a brief air-raid siren blip thirty minutes before the movie was to start, so people could get in from the far end of town or the farms.
By the 1970s, it was a long drive to a movie.
Star Wars is not sci-fi, it’s sword and sorcery space opera.
Or 'Riverworld'. SyFy channel made it into a two hour piece several years ago. It wasn't bad. It looked like a pilot for a series but, it never went anywhere.
I’m saving the watching of ‘Star Wars’ for one of those rainy Sunday afternoons when there is nothing else I want to do but put up my feet and just cill...I can’t fathom that I will dislike such a time honored film.
Discussions about the force by Obi-wan Kenobi and Yoda are a comprehensive introduction to New Age theology.
Look what they did to his Starship Troopers, and imagine what they would do with Time Enough for Love.
Bump
You can’t possibly not like the original 1977 film. It’s a classic action/adventure. Sit back with some beer or wine and just ignore the 70s special effects issues.
I’d like to see some of John Ringo’s stuff on the big screen.
“The Hero With A Thousand Faces”
Ooops, you covered that... never mind.
Do to physics involved the sci-fi that depicts interstellar travel is not just fantasy, it is lunacy.
Great book. Pournelle is a really interesting guy, a true modern Renaissance man. Among other things, he has been a true Cold Warrior as a Boeing employee involved in nuclear war planning and game theory, an assistant mayor under Sam Yorty of Los Angeles, a noted computer columnist in addition to his science fiction writing, etc.
The Hebrew laws, yeah, unique. The “stories” only new to anyone not familiar with ancient Mesopotamian legend/fable/myth.
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