Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site trwatf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!trwatf!root From: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.movies.sw Subject: Re: _Star_Wars_ (spoiler) Message-ID: <1020@trwatf.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Jun-85 14:19:13 EDT Article-I.D.: trwatf.1020 Posted: Sun Jun 30 14:19:13 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jul-85 04:44:54 EDT References: <2202@ut-sally.UUCP> Reply-To: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) Distribution: net Organization: TRW Advanced Technology Facility, Merrifield VA. Lines: 62 Xref: watmath net.movies:6831 net.movies.sw:549 In article <2202@ut-sally.UUCP> kelvin@ut-sally.UUCP (Kelvin Thompson) writes: > > _Star_Wars_ > > by Kelvin Thompson > > From its opening scene, where two spaceships chase each other around a > planet while trying to blow one another to smithereens, the movie loses > any semblance of realism. The spaceships make swishing and humming > noises as they maneuver about, and their lasers make zapping noises as > they fire -- all despite the fact that it has been scientifically proven > that there are absolutely no sounds in space. So what. This is called artistic licence. > In another gaffe later in the movie, a robot supposedly manages to go up > and down a staircase, even though it is quite obvious that it is > structurally impossible for the robot to do so. The camera cuts away > just as the robot gets to the staircase, but the viewer is again jolted > by the obvious impossiblity. If you're refering to the scene with R2D2 at the space port on Tatooine then I think you're mistaken. As I recall he was shown decending those stairs by jockeying back and forth on his "legs." No jolting impossibilities here. > For example, when Hammill, the supposed hero of the movie, sees the > burned corpses of his parents, he responds by turning his head sideways. > No tears, no shouts of outrage, just a crick in the neck and they are > forgotten. Those were not his parents. They were his Aunt and Uncle. You DID watch this movie didn't you? > Later, when an android buddy of his is discriminated against > in a space-bar, he accepts the wrong without a blink. Well maybe the universe this story was set in HAD discrimination. This isn't a sanction of discrimination. > Late in the film, > when an entire *planet* full of billions of sentient beings is > annihilated, the good guys just sort of go, "Gosh, that's too bad." The > bad guys, of course, smile cruelly. These kinds of responses to murder, > discrimination, and genocide certainly do not encourage the kind of > consciousness needed to overcome today's problems. > > _Star_Wars_ contains a lot of action sequences, so it will no doubt have > a strong draw on today's young people. Nonetheless, parents should make > every effort to keep their children away from this morally bankrupt movie > and direct them toward a film which takes a useful stand on some of the > issues facing our world. And, naturally, all ethical adults should stay > well away from it themselves. Yes, let's stay clear of all movies that are devoid of morally or politically relevant themes. God forbid we should fill our minds with anything but serious and meaningfull drama. -- UUCP: ...{decvax,ihnp4,allegra}!seismo!trwatf!root - Lord Frith ARPA: trwatf!root@SEISMO "Money for you from the Buddah"