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What Star Wars has meant to you — Page 2
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My brother is eleven years older than me, so when I turned three (1983), not only was it the year ROTJ was in theaters, but it was also the year I inherited all of my brother's Star Wars toys, while he pursued more "grown-up" teenage interests. The original Death Star playset, all the original action figures with carrying case (Greedo was headless for some reason), his posters, his records, his books, his ESB bedsheets... All of it.
Couple this with the fact that all the ROTJ stuff soon went on clearance. You could go to Sears and get Stormtroopers, Gamorrean Guards, Prune Face or Squid Head for like 50 cents each! And for Christmas I got boxes filled with landspeeders, dewbacks, taun-tauns, the skiff, the Jabba playset, everything! In the second grade I remember reciting and acting out Darth Vader's death scene in the lunch room with other kids. It was in the time I spent playing in this world with these characters that my creativity and sense of imagination was really fostered and inspired.
Then, when I was seven, my parents (who were high-school sweethearts who had been married for 27 years) went through a bitter divorce, and my dad literally BECAME Darth Vader. I began to see the world through a Star Wars filter. I could really identify with Luke and the arc of the Skywalker storyline. And my father played the role of the villain in my life for many, many years.
Long story short: Seventeen years later... I believe it was the summer "Attack of the Clones" was in full swing in theaters... By some miraculous twist of fate, my parents were reunited and soon remarried, after hardly seeing each other for almost two decades!
And again I was reminded of that Star Wars foundation in my brain when I was able to spend some quality time with my dad. Getting that close to him after so many years had passed, I was surprised to come to terms with the fact that sure he made some wrong decisions, did some bad things, but he was still just a man. Flawed. Human. Redeemable.
I was able to get to know my father for the first time since those few perfect moments I remember as a small boy, and was able to fully reconcile with him, and finally felt complete for the first time in my life.
Less than six months later, he had a heart attack and passed away.
It's strange how life works sometimes. How strange, and how amazing... That's the kind of thing that seperates Star Wars from other movies. It resonates with us on a deeper, more personal level than anything else can. It was written as mythology. The function of mythology is for people to pass life lessons down from generation to generation. The stories can entertain us, but they can also serve as a mirror, teaching us and preparing us to deal with things we may encounter in our own real lives.
So, for me, the Star Wars saga, aside from being a great collection of movies, will forever be the story of Anakin, Luke, my father and I.
--InfoDroid
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Originally posted by: battlewars
i'm glad youre fulfilling a dream invader jenny, pretty inspirational to people who just like to talk star wars
I hold a Batchelors in animation, but it's so f**king hard to get into the industry, even if you have a degree and a kickass portfolio. Good luck Jen.i'm glad youre fulfilling a dream invader jenny, pretty inspirational to people who just like to talk star wars
War does not make one great.
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
thats cool youve got a bachelors degree, better than not having oneOriginally posted by: battlewars
i'm glad youre fulfilling a dream invader jenny, pretty inspirational to people who just like to talk star wars
I hold a Batchelors in animation, but it's so f**king hard to get into the industry, even if you have a degree and a kickass portfolio. Good luck Jen. i'm glad youre fulfilling a dream invader jenny, pretty inspirational to people who just like to talk star wars