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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2007-08-19

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-05-29:

"What Lucas has devised, over six movies, is a terrible puritan dream: a morality tale in which both sides are bent on moral cleansing, and where their differences can be assuaged only by a triumphant circus of violence. Judging from the whoops and crowings that greeted the opening credits, this is the only dream we are good for. We get the films we deserve." -- Anthony Lane, movie critic for the New Yorker, reviewing Star Wars: Episode III.
(submitted the the mailing list by Kelly Rollefson)

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posted by [identity profile] pattytoo.livejournal.com at 07:41pm on 2007-08-19
Hmm...I would say that isn't the story told in those movies at all.

It is a very complex tale when you take time to read the books, but it is presented in a pretty simplistic manner in the movies. I would hope that people gather more than that from the movies though. I certainly know that I did, and it was the foundation for a lot of my interest in Eastern philosophy and Joseph Campbell as I got older.

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posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 08:44pm on 2007-08-19
Wow, that's just slightly backwards, considering that the books were a money-making franchise spawned out of the original movie...

Of course you can put more detail into a novel adaptation of a movie than you can put into the movie itself.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 03:50am on 2007-08-20
I think it's at least partly an an example of "people see meanings they're predisposd to see": I think there are at least three or four of each movie in the series -- same print, same theatre, same showing, different viewing experiences for different audience members.

It struck me as being a sufficiently startlingly different spin than I'm used to, to hold my attention long enough to drop it into the quotes queue.
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posted by [identity profile] selki.livejournal.com at 05:57pm on 2007-08-20
I'm pretty much with David Brin as far as his (anti-elitism) critique of Star Wars series goes:

"[...] the Campbellian myth can VERY easily go wrong, and turn into a nightmare. That's what has happened to George Lucas's particular vision, in which a "rebellion" is used to symbolize the legitimization of divine rule by demigods."

http://www.davidbrin.com/starwarsarticle1.html
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posted by (anonymous) at 09:34pm on 2007-08-20
I don't know the Campell stuff too well, and reckon Lucas has seen a few Kurosawa movies in his time, but would like to take this opportunity to argue the side that what really influenced him is comic books--anyone's interested, I could name a few....
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