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Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.
What id Star Wars was never made?
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Who the hell am I...
So lonely...
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Sorry. If Star Wars had never been created, none of us would be here. This forum, I mean, not in the cosmic sense.
I was just trying to be cute - yet again, I've failed.
I debated this very thing just the other day with a co-worker. They said that if it hadn't been Star Wars, it would have been something else. Some other movie, according to him, would have 'revolutionized' special effects and the end result would have been the same.
I disagreed. My opinion is that Star Wars opened up a part of the collective conciousness that would likely have remained locked or hidden. Films of the 70's were bleak and cynical. Lucas (and Spielberg) stood out amongst the Scorceses and DePalmas of the film world. Here, right after the end of Vietnam when everyone was depressed and had a bleak outlook on the World, comes a film which offered hope and optimism and told the story of a youth escaping his stifling existence.
Without Star Wars, perhaps we would have remained in a rut for many more years, never knowing that it was okay to dream.
Just my thought though, for what it's worth.
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I was 4 years old in 1977 when I saw Star Wars for the first time. It is also the exact moment when my mind all of a sudden came alive. It really is the first memory, which I can recall in complete detail. The smell of the theatre, the cigarette smoke in the projector light, standing up for the Canadian National Anthem back in those days (no Coke commercials), not blinking for 2 hours...man, those were the days.
We went straight from the theatre to the toy store, where my old man bought me a Kenner R2-D2, who is still my favourite character.
The following fall I started Kindergarten. I was with a pretty diverse group of kids, racially and economically. But all 20 or so of us loved Star Wars. Maybe we wouldn't have found so much in common were it not for Star Wars. Maybe my perspective wouldn't have broadened. Maybe I wouldn't have normally been so tolerant of other races and religions were it not for Star Wars.
I know it sounds corny, but Star Wars made my world a better place to live in.
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Originally posted by: TheCassidy
Ah, well - a personal level is something altogether different.
I was 4 years old in 1977 when I saw Star Wars for the first time. It is also the exact moment when my mind all of a sudden came alive. It really is the first memory, which I can recall in complete detail. The smell of the theatre, the cigarette smoke in the projector light, standing up for the Canadian National Anthem back in those days (no Coke commercials), not blinking for 2 hours...man, those were the days.
We went straight from the theatre to the toy store, where my old man bought me a Kenner R2-D2, who is still my favourite character.
The following fall I started Kindergarten. I was with a pretty diverse group of kids, racially and economically. But all 20 or so of us loved Star Wars. Maybe we wouldn't have found so much in common were it not for Star Wars. Maybe my perspective wouldn't have broadened. Maybe I wouldn't have normally been so tolerant of other races and religions were it not for Star Wars.
I know it sounds corny, but Star Wars made my world a better place to live in.
I can relate to all of that, pretty much the same with me ... but swap Canada for England and R2-D2 for Han Solo,
God knows how many friends I made then because of Star Wars, and am still friendly with some of them today even after all these years.....
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Hollywood filmmaking was bound to change sooner or later, and Star Wars just happened to be there to take credit for the change. Without it though, I imagine the Star Trek film adaptations made between 1979-2002 would not have come to pass, nor would the Indiana Jones trilogy be present.
Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.
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