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Originally posted by: JediRandy
Again, I LOVE ESB.... no complaining here or anything like that....
but, if you were to show that flick to someone who has no idea what SW is... who has never seen the ANH... they'd be completly lost and going "Whaa?" every 2 minutes. Imagine the Wampa cave with no prior knowledge.... how the hell is he making that thing fly into his hand... then who is this ghost? You can go on and on...
Again, I LOVE ESB.... no complaining here or anything like that....
but, if you were to show that flick to someone who has no idea what SW is... who has never seen the ANH... they'd be completly lost and going "Whaa?" every 2 minutes. Imagine the Wampa cave with no prior knowledge.... how the hell is he making that thing fly into his hand... then who is this ghost? You can go on and on...
There was this girl I was dated once who felt all science fiction was was silly fluff with no substance. One one of our dates we watched The Empire Strikes Back together. She had never seen a Star Wars film before and had never even heard of Star Wars other than from me. No knowledge of the Jedi, nothing. In fact, she was surprised when Luke lifts up his goggles and shows his face for the first time because *gasp* he was a human and not a robot. I don't know what the hell she was expecting the movie to be like, but she loved it. There was no "Whaaaaa?" every two minutes. She even let the force grabbing of the lightsaber pass by without a word. Later in the film Yoda explains the force to a very adequate degree. When the movie was over she could not believe how much she had enjoyed it and at our next date we watched Return of the Jedi, then later Star Wars. The reason I showed them to her out of order was that I knew that if she didn't like it she would only see one SW film in her life, and I wanted that to be Empire. No this girl is married to me and happily sit beside me and watching sci-fi with me all the time. It is still not her favorite, but Empire gave her a respect for it she never had and showed her it could have a lot more substance than she ever thought.
So your "Whaaaaaaaaaa?" every two minute argument is shot to hell. I agree Empire benefits greatly from watching Star Wars before hand, but I think it is a movie that can stand on its own, and that it does have a beginning middle and end in its own way. It does not resolve, that is true, but even if Jedi was never made the end of Empire Strike Back indicates hope, not despair. I don't think my wife was unique in being able to watch Empire Strikes Back before any of the others, the beauty of that film (not just as sci-fi, but as a film in general) way out weighs the confusions it might offer by being a sequel with no resolve.
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