Posted on 05/19/2005 5:56:43 AM PDT by js1138
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That raises the cultural context, which was the war in Vietnam, initiated by communists and bungled by politicians, and the Watergate scandal, which magnified the minutiae just when America needed to get serious about its philosophy.
But America was in the grip of the hippies, who held American values in contempt, and they were having an impact in Hollywood. Fiery Katharine Hepburn and sunny Doris Day had all but departed from pictures, versatile Sidney Poitier had been vilified in his prime for being an Uncle Tom, and classy Cary Grant and upright Gary Cooper had given way to sniveling, squinting anti-heroes. The hum of a light saber firing up was a pleasant change from the sound of shrill hippies and their cinematic counterparts screaming in our faces.
Star Wars delivered a tonic for the time: sweeping music, opening scroll and a heap of hokey dialog set to purposeful action with enough optimism to cleanse the stink of Woodstock for a long time.
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My 3-year-old son likes Star Wars, too. He walks around with a paint stirrer, claiming it's his "red light saber" (Darth Patrick!), and has to sleep with his brothers' action figures.
I wouldn't take a young child to see Episode 3, or any of them, in a theater, but when they come out on DVD it might be okay. It's mostly just flashing lights to them. Young children really aren't paying much attention, and they don't understand the plot, or even much of the dialogue. At home, if there's a visual they might find disturbing, they can leave the room.
I think of Star Wars-type movie violence as being sort of like nature documentaries, to a child ... I remember when my oldest daughter (now 14) was about 2, she was watching a nature show where cheetahs were disembowelling an antelope - loud chomping, guts all over the landscape - and she said, "Oh, look, the kitties are eating their dinner! Nice kitties!"
Cheers,
CSG
Thanks for the information. Can you FReepmail details on what you think is really bad? I was figuring on taking my three oldest kids: 8, 11, and 14.
Amen Brother! You and me both!
I love Reagan to this day. Star Wars has lost it's shine.
Bite me.
Standing in line for a Star Wars movie, or Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or any other type of movie like that, is like going to the bookstore at midnight the night a Harry Potter novel is released. It's a social event sans stigma.
Called anyone who waits in line for a Star Wars movie idiots.....they had it coming!
My son was two when the first one came out. We thought maybe he could sleep through it. He did -- with me holding him in the lobby. It was weeks before I got another chance to see it.
"Face it, the best part of Star Wars was the opening music. The movie was good but the John Williams intro was perfect."
"Perfect" is the PERFECT word for it. The opening score is possibly my favorite movie music EVER.
Regards,
If you were colored anything but white, you'd be OK with the AA industry (although if conservative, the AA industry would not be OK with you.)
LOL. Thanks for making my point. :)
I was 12. That transition period from Carter to Reagan was a great time to be alive, to feel the fresh air being blown in and the hippie stink being blown out. I remember in 1980 of making fun of people who still wore the big bell bottoms and had the long, straight, stringy, greasy hair look.
After "proving your point" :)
I feel obligated to show you another thread full of "idiots" who would stand in line for a Star Wars movie.
A Few of FR's Finest...Every Day....05-19-05...Star Wars
Enjoy!
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