About 9 months ago Clone Corridor started publishing its first posts. Now we have finally reached the last two weeks before The Force Awakens hits the theaters. So the time seemed right for a very brief view back on how we fared … Continue reading 9 Months of Clone Corridor
The Star Wars Hexology is viewed by many as a simple story about Good v.s. Evil where the notions of ‘Dark’ and ‘Light’ are considered to overlap completely with ‘Light = Good’ and ‘Dark = Evil’. However as we have seen already in our discussion of what the Star Wars narrative is in class #2 things are much more subtle than that. Surprisingly, just 24 hours before this class Religion and Star Wars were entangled in yet another way in the UK News.
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One fascinating aspect of Star Wars stories is how they occasionally relate to our own experiences. So sometimes a Star Wars Moment is not so much a moment you were enjoying Star Wars, but a moment in your life that made you suddenly feel catapulted ‘into’ such a story. Antonio Cabrales recounts such a moment for you here. Continue reading “My Star Wars Moment #13: ‘the chairman was a Sith lord’”
The 6 films from the George Lucas era Star Wars were Art and hence the acting and story-telling in them differs from the consumer-product that is the regular Hollywood film. What is maybe even more important, the way an artistic … Continue reading Star Wars: Art, Authors, Acting & Audiences
Although JJ Abrams told us there would be no new trailers, well it was only true from a certain point of view. It did not exclude the possibility that a different country could get a different trailer. And that happened … Continue reading The Force Awakens in Japan! A New Trailer!
This week the final trailer for The Force Awakens arrived and was met with great enthusiasm and yet something bugged me. It was the memory of the final trailer of The Phantom Menace. I loved the trailer and I absolutely … Continue reading The Phantom Menace Trailer and The Force Awakens
It’s here … Finally we have a full new trailer for a fully new Star Wars film since 2005’s Revenge of the Sith. I have only seen the trailer a few dozen times as I write this, ever since it … Continue reading The Star Wars Trailer
So this morning at 8h00 am the tickets for Star Wars The Force Awakens went on sale across the UK. Although we at CloneCorridor checked last night to see any signs of an impending sale happening it wasn’t until earlier … Continue reading Online bookings in the UK go into meltdown
Together with the announcement of a full trailer of The Force Awakens for 19/10/2015 we have also been served with a delicious poster. So let me share with you our first reactions to all that has come out tonight! The poster … Continue reading The Poster and the sneak peek’s are here!
The first session of the UCL Star Wars class gave a brief introduction to the Saga and it’s reception by the press and by the cinema audiences. You can find the notes of this class here and here is the … Continue reading UCL’s Star Wars Class #1: Recorded lecture I
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