Reflection On Star Wars (A Message Of Thanks)
Apr 18, 2020 22:56:12 GMT
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Post by Cryogenic on Apr 18, 2020 22:56:12 GMT
For my 300th post to Naberrie Fields, I thought I'd share this lovely reflection on Star Wars posted by cratylus the other day:
boards.theforce.net/threads/the-development-of-the-sequel-trilogy.50046418/page-229#post-56585908
Thank you, indeed, to George.
It's all about that blend and so much more...
boards.theforce.net/threads/the-development-of-the-sequel-trilogy.50046418/page-229#post-56585908
I've read that the lectures on the Force come off as juvenile in China. One commentator on The Last Jedi said "Why is he [Luke] telling her things any four year old knows?"
The basics of Taoism and Shaolin martial arts being somewhat exotic in the United States, I don't think Luacs worried about how the Jedi philosophy would be received in China forty years later. Obi-Wan kenobi's Japanese sounding name and the eastern-mystial falvor of the Jedi philosophy and the nature of the Force really caught onto the coattails of a martial arts craze in the United States. That's part of the novelty of what Star Wars had to offer back in the day-- a combination of knightly romance; swashbuckling cinema serial swordsmanship; science fiction robots, ray guns and rocketships; all-American denunciation of tyranny (without explicit politics); traditional good and evil morality (a breather from all the cynical art films of the day); exotic alien worlds with aliens speaking alien languages; and last but not least a generous helping of allusions to East Asian culture and of course martial arts!
All packed with enough cinematic homages (Kurosawa, Ford, etc, etc) to keep any film student busy.
A very fresh blend in the day. In simply listing this I feel moved to say, once again, Thank you George.
cratylus, Apr 10, 2020
The basics of Taoism and Shaolin martial arts being somewhat exotic in the United States, I don't think Luacs worried about how the Jedi philosophy would be received in China forty years later. Obi-Wan kenobi's Japanese sounding name and the eastern-mystial falvor of the Jedi philosophy and the nature of the Force really caught onto the coattails of a martial arts craze in the United States. That's part of the novelty of what Star Wars had to offer back in the day-- a combination of knightly romance; swashbuckling cinema serial swordsmanship; science fiction robots, ray guns and rocketships; all-American denunciation of tyranny (without explicit politics); traditional good and evil morality (a breather from all the cynical art films of the day); exotic alien worlds with aliens speaking alien languages; and last but not least a generous helping of allusions to East Asian culture and of course martial arts!
All packed with enough cinematic homages (Kurosawa, Ford, etc, etc) to keep any film student busy.
A very fresh blend in the day. In simply listing this I feel moved to say, once again, Thank you George.
cratylus, Apr 10, 2020
Thank you, indeed, to George.
It's all about that blend and so much more...