Han shot first oder warum ist Star Wars so wichtig?

Diesem Theme widmet sich Promiblogger Wil Wheaton in seiner lesenswerten Kolumne bei den Suicide Girls. Warum bedeuten die alten, die echten, die einzigen Star Wars Filme soviel für Leute die heute um die 30 sind?

We love Star Wars because, when viewed from our complicated adult lives through the lens of childhood nostalgia, we see a simpler, happier time, and recall this phenomenon that was an integral part of our lives. Remember what it was like to see the Death Star blow up the first time? Remember how you just couldn’t believe it that they froze Han Solo? If you were young enough at the time, will you admit that you thought the Ewoks were actually kind of funny and cool? (I will.) And how much did you run around the woods near your house, pretending to be on a speeder bike? See, it’s more than a movie; it’s culture.

And that is why the prequels, especially Episode I, are such a kick in the balls to us. To be fair, it’s pretty impossible for George Lucas to create something with Phantom Menace that matches up to the idealized version we all created in our minds, but releasing a movie that felt like an excuse to sell ILM’s new toys to studios, and sell actual toys to kids was not a good place to start.

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Ein paar Anmerkungen zu seinem Artikel, in denen er zu bedenken gibt, daß die scheussliche darstellerische Leistung Hayden Christensens durchaus auch dem Talent von George Lucas geschuldet sein mag, der auch andere erwiesene A-Mimen in die schauspielerische Erstarrung trieb, hat Wheaton in seinem eigenen Blog ergänzt.

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