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It’s exactly the same as I remember it, and watching it again I wonder what I ever saw in it.

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It’s more charming than sublime, a silly pop-culture throwaway full of funny creatures, terrible dialogue and breathless acting. The film moves slowly and shows its predigital seams.

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“Star Wars” is an old movie now, older now than Elvis Presley’s first records were in 1977. They existed - the whole cosmos, or gestalt, or whatever it is, exists - in a realm beyond such judgments, and also beyond the ordinary operations of nostalgia. Those movies weren’t all that good either. Everyone went to see those movies anyway, and the awfulness cast a rosy and perhaps unmerited glow on the first trilogy. That movie was terrible! So was “Attack of the Clones.” But it didn’t seem to matter. Lucas returned with “The Phantom Menace” and the Gen X legacy of ambivalence and confusion blossomed anew. The allegorical meanings - the battle of good and evil, the mystery of the Force - rest lightly on the jaunty surface of “A New Hope.” There would be richer intimations of depth and darkness in “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi,” or maybe, since we were a few years older, we were more inclined to see them.Īnd then we kind of moved on, at least until 1999, when Mr. In 1977, we were innocent of Joseph Campbell and the further annotations Mr. The legend of “Star Wars” was something that arose later. He turned 11 about two weeks before I did. Abrams, director of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” is one of us. In his case, “Star Wars” was replaced first by “2001: A Space Odyssey” and then by “The Searchers,” both of them, not coincidentally, among the identifiable ancestors of “A New Hope.” Others held fast to childish things and formed a Rebel Alliance against the Empire of adulthood. Lethem, it was also a gateway into more sophisticated cinematic pleasures, and a first step on a backward path through movie history. It was something to do.įor some, like Mr. You would be in someone’s rec room playing air hockey, or trying to pop wheelies on your bike, and you’d get bored with that and, if you hadn’t already spent your allowance, you’d head to the theater where the movie had been playing continuously since the end of the previous school year. Going to see it was, in my recollection, a casual habit. At least one friend’s birthday party involved a “Star Wars” outing. Another time I went with a girl from my sixth-grade class on some awkward early approximation of a date. I think my parents took me the first time.

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I can’t quite match that total, and there was no pattern to the viewings. The novelist Jonathan Lethem, two years older than I am, has written (in a piercing essay called “13, 21, 1977”) about seeing it 21 times, usually by himself, during an especially painful period in his life. I’m not sure how many times I saw “Star Wars” the year it came out, but I am certain that until the arrival of my children, a DVD player and a copy of “Toy Story 2,” there is no movie I have seen as often in such rapid succession. I’m the ancient mariner here, and this is still my story. Like rock ’n’ roll before it, this cultural dispensation may not have been immediately respectable, but it proved to be instantly profitable and endlessly renewable.īut more about that in a minute. But the first “Star Wars” trilogy is also credited with opening up a dazzling world of fan culture, liberating nerds and geeks from the condescension of their elders and the mockery of their classmates and placing their passions at the center of the universe. Twenty-first century grown-ups who bemoan the hegemony of fantasy-based franchise movies - which is to say most of us, at one time or another - have only our own youthful enthusiasms to blame. “Star Wars” supposedly helped put an end to the risk-taking and artistic ambition of 1970s New Hollywood and ushered in an era of blockbuster domination that continues to this day. The wild success of the film now known as “Episode IV - A New Hope” has been held responsible for much of what followed, the good along with the bad. Or so the story goes, in both its heroic and tragic versions.













Flash gordon song 1980