Thursday, November 24, 2011

Review: 'Star Wars: A New Hope' is nod to epics past and makes use of westerns too


Star Wars: Episode IV   A New Hope   PG  
            The first Star Wars was a brilliant movie, a cold war in space adventure, with samauri Jedi guys carrying light sabers, blaster wielding cowboy scruffy guys, Han Solo and Chewy, wacky robots, and Luke and Liea, and Obi Wan. The infamous Darth Vader is legendary. Vader is looking for droids thart hold plans to his new planet busting Death Star, the coolest bad guy weapon ever. Can the rebels defeat him? Are you kidding? The Falcon can make the Cessel run in 30 parsecs, so why not? (Just don't tell them that a parsec is 3.6 light years, and a light year is a distance of measure, not time it takes for someone to get from a point to another). Beep beep.  The boy Luke goes on a quest to find himself, mentored by an ancient samurai like master, and becomes a fighter pilot in a rebellion to take back the stars from an imposing evil force. Blend of several archetypes of fiction and literature, the first movie puts them in a space setting, as it was back in 1977, and thus the series if a red headed step sibling to earlier space western...Star Trek, in a way. 
Review by Adam Browne

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