Slight and bashful, Lucas hardly fits the image of the Hollywood director, and he had made only two pictures before: THX 1138 and American Graffiti. The applause was sweeter still because so many people had expressed doubts for so long. “After something like that, you sit there and say, ‘Gee, that’s what it’s all about.’ ”
“It was a supermarket audience, ordinary people,” says Lucas, who was there and who still wonders at the reaction. At the end, while the lengthy credits rolled, the entire audience applauded for two or three minutes. It’s perfect summer escapist fare.”Īt a special preview in San Francisco early this month, kids screamed in delight at the film’s fantastic effects. “ Star Wars is the costume epic of the future,” says Ben Bova, editor of Analog, one of the leading science fiction magazines. Some of the spaceship models used for special effects were later stolen from a workshop, and they too are being advertised on the open market. The first week in April, indeed, 6,000 color transparencies from the film were stolen from the production offices they are now selling for more than $5 each to sci-fi freaks. The film opens in 50 theaters across the country, but advance screenings and word-of-mouth have already given it an outsized reputation among film buffs and science fiction addicts-two groups united usually only by their enthusiasm. Star Wars has brought fun back to the movies and glowingly demonstrated they still can make ’em like they used to.
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The word for this movie is fun.” For once, a director is right about his own work. The plot is simple -good against evil-and the film is designed to be all the fun things and fantasy things I remember. “All the books and films and comics that I liked when I was a child. “It’s the flotsam and jetsam from the period when I was twelve years old,” says Director George Lucas, 33. It has no message, no sex and only the merest dollop of blood shed here and there.
The result is a remarkable confection: a subliminal history of the movies, wrapped in a riveting tale of suspense and adventure, ornamented with some of the most ingenious special effects ever contrived for film. Star Wars is a combination of Flash Gordon, The Wizard of Oz, the Errol Flynn swashbucklers of the ’30s and ’40s and almost every western ever screened-not to mention the Hardy Boys, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Faerie Queene. But will they be in time to save the lovely Leia? And, anyway, what can a punk kid, a has-been general and a comedy team of robots do against the dark, illimitable powers of the Galactic Empire?Ī universe of plenty-as audiences can discover beginning this week in Star Wars, a grand and glorious film that may well be the smash hit of 1977, and certainly is the best movie of the year so far. Together, the four of them are even now setting out to deliver the secret plans to rebel headquarters, light-years and parsecs away. My gosh! No hermit he, but that former rebel general, Obi-wan Kenobi, for whom they had been looking. Luke, Artoo Detoo and the ungainly Threepio have been attacked by Tatooine’s native nasties, the sand people, and they have only just been saved by an old hermit. Though Luke does not know it, his father also fought the Empire before he was foully murdered by Darth Vader. As luck would have it, they have been picked up by Luke Skywalker, a handsome young farmer.
Artoo Detoo and his delicate robot friend Threepio have landed on Tatooine. She has entrusted them to a little robot, Artoo Detoo, in the hope that they will reach a former general of the rebellion on the planet Tatooine. But wait! Princess Leia does not have the plans.
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