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
In the last two installments of Star Wars’ Forgotten Women we have covered Zam Wessel and Shmi Skywalker, two interesting female characters who play a crucial role in their respective Star Wars films. This post, though, will not focus on a single woman … Continue reading Star Wars’ Forgotten Women #3: Padme’s Handmaidens
There hasn’t been a Scene It? post in a while as we’ve been furiously discussing the constant stream of The Force Awakens news. However, there is one scene which I haven’t been able to get out of my mind lately so it felt … Continue reading Scene It?: Darth Vader’s Funeral
Some time ago I wrote a post about Zam Wessel, one of my favourite female characters to come out of the Star Wars Prequels who is often forgotten about in discussions about Star Wars. Another one of these women who, despite most … Continue reading Star Wars’ Forgotten Women #2: Shmi Skywalker
San Diego Comic-Con 2015 has come and gone and it has been amazing… for the most part. Clone Corridor was started in April of this year not long after the end of SWC: Anaheim and, partly, as a consequence of the … Continue reading SDCC 2015: Why with all the Prequel-Bashing?
The Attack of the Clones was the first Star Wars movie I got to see in the cinema, after an extensive campaign for the chance to. Walking out of the cinema I was all about the Clones, the Battle of Geonosis … Continue reading Star Wars’ Forgotten Women #1: Zam Wesell
This post is a bit late, but here it is anyway! So, what’s been happening in Star Wars-related news this week? On the Web: Kasdan teases the return of Lando Calrissian to the films (The Guardian) John Williams talked about the … Continue reading Weekly Round-Up
In today’s Scene it? I am looking at a very contested story-line within The Return of the Jedi. Although I will be discussing the whole story arc, I will be focusing on the scene that brings it to an end. I am talking about ‘slave Leia’ and especially “the bikini”, which is one of the things that has been incredibly divisive within the Star Wars fandom.
When George Lucas made the choice to start the Prequel Trilogy with Anakin Skywalker as a kid and to include Jar Jar Binks as a character he must have had an inkling of what was coming. But he must have made this choice deliberately because of its story-telling value. In this post I want to have a look at how intimately the stories of these two great characters are entangled and how they mirror each other. Unwittingly, in their joint rejection of these two, the prequel-bashing community not only misses out on a vital element of the story Lucas tried to convey. But above all they confirm the message that is in Jar Jar and Anakin’s story for those who did make the effort to recognize it.
The Atlantic yesterday reported on what George Lucas treatment was for The Force Awakens. Although we can’t find the section of the Vanity Fair article Spencer Kornhaber is apparently reporting on, he quotes VF and Abrams as follows: ‘[Abrams] said Lucas’s treatment had centered on very … Continue reading Corridor Chat: George Lucas’ EpVII Treatment Was to Focus on Young People
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