Sci-fi September: Science Fiction Influences (Part II)
In a galaxy far, far away, or crammed into my hippie uncle’s van with six other cousins? He said he’d take us to the drive-in but he wasn’t going to pay for everyone so five of us hid in the various cupboards/nooks/crannies as he snuck us all in.
Ah, 1977. Good times.
Star wars was the first movie I remember that you had to see it more times than your other friends in order to be the coolest one. I think I got up to 7 that first year.
I won’t go into the plot because everyone has seen it, right? Um, yes. You at the back? No? You haven’t seen it? Well, go see it. We’ll wait.
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Done? And? Yes, I know it is pretty damn good. Yes. There are more. Episodes IV, V, and VI are the first three, then Episodes I, II, and III came out next, but you can skip those because once you see Jar-Jar, you’ll never unsee Jar-Jar.
No. If you want, but don’t say I didn’t warn you, but take my advice and watch Episodes VII, VIII, and IX which were made after Disney bought the rights from Lucas. No I’m not going to wait for you to watch all of those, because then you’ll want to watch Rogue One, and Solo.
No, there’s a couple of series after that. Yes, Disney is milking the franchise for all it’s worth.
Anyway, back to the original. One thing that made this movie special was that I did not know any of the actors, so for me they were their characters and that is something that is rare today. There were also cool effects done way before CGI was a thing and in my opinion still stand up today.
Oh and as a side note, I always thought the stormtroopers were robots…
-Leon
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
My new book page: http://books.linesbyleon.com/
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