tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post111748841485329866..comments2024-03-19T07:27:06.216-04:00Comments on VOTARIES OF HORROR: My Contribution to the Star Wars CrazeKatherine Woodburyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14364517253667798449noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post-1117566902946531732005-05-31T15:15:00.000-04:002005-05-31T15:15:00.000-04:00I have heard the latest is pretty good. And I do t...I have heard the latest is pretty good. And I do think that with <I> Star Wars</I> Lucas came up with something truly epic, in that Joseph Campbell kind of way. And it crosses generations. I'm reminded of going to see <I>Return of the King</I> with my mother. The guy at the ticket counter said, "Here to see Viggo?" in a kind of wink wink nudge nudge way. I'm not sure why, maybe because my mom is in her 70s and I'm in my 30s, and he couldn't fathom the idea of two women going to see <I>Return of the King</I> for, well, the story. (I told him, "No. I prefer Sean Astin." My mom just looked at him like he was crazy.) Anyway, the point of this is that most of the people in the theater were young college-age men, which was the same demographic that Tolkien captured originally. The point being <B>not</B> that only young college-age men get into <I>Star Wars</I> and Middle-Earth but that there's, what?, a twenty year gap there (more for Tolkien) and yet the story still resonates, speaks to something: desire for enlightenment, idealism, the individual versus society, the search for one's identity, some concept or idea that is embodied in a tale or series of tales. Of course, Homer did it too, but every Age has to do it for itself.Kate Woodburyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06276977170991272672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post-1117503380222000932005-05-30T21:36:00.000-04:002005-05-30T21:36:00.000-04:00Eh, Star Wars...How you confuse me.George Lucas mu...Eh, Star Wars...How you confuse me.<BR/><BR/>George Lucas must have been a genius at some point, because the techniques he used to create the franchise are absolutely stunning (I forget the term for it, what he did was take christiological [Redemption, sacrifice] and epic [Knights, honour, ect] motifs and set them against a cliche "space-opera" background; complete with gimpy dialogue.) But his contributions to cinema as of late have been double-edged at best. I hate the CGI-ization of everything I hold dear ( from Lord of the Rings to The Chronicles of Narnia...God help us all.) But I can't deny that they are aesthetically pleasing.<BR/><BR/>My only wish is that I had been born at that time, and not now. I would have been at Pink Floyd concerts sporting a "May the Force be with you" t-shirt and a driving a "Yota."<BR/><BR/>Alas, everything happens for a purpose. Excellent article, forgive my rambling compliment. <BR/><BR/>+1 Awesomeness.Cecil The Ninjahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06196949197957108344noreply@blogger.com