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From: sas@leadsv.UUCP (Scott Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Silly ads
Message-ID: <486@leadsv.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 12:34:13 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 24 12:34:13 1985
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In article <6038@ucla-cs.ARPA>, reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP writes:

> And finally, how about that Spielberg, plagiarizing bits from two of his
> past successes for the trailers of "The Goonies" and "Explorers"?  I thought
> it a little tacky when the kids in "E.T." were shown loaded down with Star
> Wars paraphenalia.  This is more of the same, a somewhat hubristic glorying
> in his own influence over modern children's lives.  Not too serious, I guess,
> but a bit more modesty would be becoming.
> -- 
>         			Peter Reiher
>         			reiher@ucla-cs.arpa
> 				soon to be reiher@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU
>         			{...ihnp4,ucbvax,sdcrdcf}!ucla-cs!reiher

First of all, Spielberg had nothing and never has had anything to do with
any of the Star Wars movies, except being a friend of George Lucas, who was
the Star Wars creator and soul. Secondly, the scenes with all the Star Wars
paraphenelia is not even glorifying his friends influence. I'm not sure how
many childrens rooms you've seen, but from what I've seen, (Cousins, Nephews,
and freinds children) many have at least one item from Star Wars or other
toys who are riding on the shirttails of the recent S/F market boom. I felt
this added a sense of reality to the characters, and a sense that these
children would be able to accept the E.T. Adding little touches like this
are similar to an actor doing little actions that do not move the story but
add realism to his character, (I.E. the way Christopher Reeve kept pushing
his glasses back on his nose when he portrayed Clark Kent.) Today's kids
have been influenced by Star Wars, and E.T. They play Dungeons and Dragons
too. Transformers and Go-Bots would probably never have had the success if
Star Wars hadn't come out and started the resurge in fantasy toys.

				Scott A. Stewart
				LMSC