RE: The World of Star Wars
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It is all pretty dark with a strange mix of tech and magic. There are obvious influences from fairy tales and myths with themes of destiny and hope. The films were also good fun and not violent enough to upset small kids.
The documentary on Disney+ of how it all came about is fascinating. George Lucas was lucky and took risks that paid off well.
Now we've had Andor that sets the scene and that is really dark. In 1977 the Soviet Union was looming as an 'evil empire', but now there are new threats to peace. We need a 'new hope'.
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He took so many risks, man and Fox were prepared to axe the movie because he was going over budget, and they assumed it was going to be a flop.
I've seen a couple of Docs on it, but my favorite is Empire of Dreams, which is all about the model makers and designers. So good.
I read somewhere that the Empire was actually based on America, but maybe heavily militaristic superpowers in general. I did see that the Ewoks were based on the Viet Kong. He wanted an "I'll equiped" almost primitive people to take on and topple the more sophisticated Empire.
Also, the world's going a bit nuts now, but there is one silver lining, during times of strife and recession, art is the one thing that prospers, so within the next few years we may see and hear a lot of great stuff, which is something to look forward to.
We could get a new generation of protest singers! We need another Woody Guthrie.
Totally ! I still play his tracks. And his son's, of course 😁 Alice's Restaurant is a cult classic.
!BBH
Have you seen A Complete Unknown? Woody features in it, but he was very ill by then. He knew the Trumps were bad news.
I haven't seen that - I'll have to give it a watch. Thank you !