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Star Wars: An Intergalactic Joyride

"Star Wars" is the highest grossing movie of all time. It is also one of
my favorites. It was released in May 1977 and re-released in a restored and
enhanced Special Edition just last month. There are many different criteria that
can be used to describe ŚStar Wars' appeal. Gary Arnold and Edward Rothstein,
two movie critics who had the opportunity to review this great movie, explain
its appeal in very much the same way. There is a difference though. Arnold
reviewed the original ŚStar Wars' twenty years ago and Rothstein reviewed the
recent Special Edition. While they reviewed slightly different versions, they
both came to the conclusion that Star Wars is a great movie based on ...

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themes and cliches from the
Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers comics and serials, plus such related but less
expected sources as the western, the pirate melodrama, the aerial combat
melodrama and the samurai epic. The movie's irresistible stylistic charm
derives from the fact that Lucas can draw upon a variety of action-movie
sources with unfailing deftness and humor. He is in superlative command of his
own movie-nurtured fantasy life. Gary Arnold, Washington Post Staff Writer
Mr. Rothstein along the same lines as Mr. Arnold, mentions that Śthe plot line
of Star Wars follows the mythic archetechture outlined by Joseph Campbell in his
study of myth, "The Hero with a Thousand Faces," which has influenced Mr.
Lucas.'
Another aspect, unique to Rothstein's review of the new Special Edition but
not quite different from Arnold's assessment, is the way in which the movie
celebrates the past and not the future. This aspect of ŚStar Wars', Rothstein
says, is what Śscreams out in opposition ...

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Added: 9/15/2005 02:31:06 PM
Category: Arts
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