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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally posted by r2geek
As a long-time SW fan, (gee R2Geek, anyone?)...
I'll agree that EP4 and 5 had heart. You cared about the characters. Big time. Great dialogue, quotable one-liners, etc. ROTJ started a downhill slide into pandering to a childhood audience... Ewoks beating garrisons of Stormtroopers? Puh-leeze! and the overly foamy muppet-like Jabba palace/band) The fight between Luke and Vader at the end and Vader's redemption saved the film.
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The Smithsonian had a travelling exhibit that started at the Smithsonian Air & Space museum. It was title, Star Wars: the Magic of Myth. It not only went over all the space/flying stuff, but also gave the opportunity to go overs the storytelling of the series as told by George Lucas himself. Lucas has a fixation with storytelling via the power of myth, archetypical stories of good vs. evil, father's fall from grace vindicated by son's triumph... The prequels examine that part of the myth.
As far as the ewoks, wookies were Lucas' first choice, but because they weren't primative enough he could no longer use them. The end result is that he wanted primatives to win over the technologically advanced Empire, again about more the myth/story than the marketing machine. While the marketing machine does exist, it wasn't his rational.
A shame that travelling exhibit closed. I did enjoy it both in DC and when it travelled to Brooklyn, NY.
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