In advance of the new Star wars movie coming out this week, I've decided to post my Great Star Wars things list...the things that really leaped out at me as unique and unforgettable, oh so many years ago....
Star Wars:
1). That endless spaceship - As terrific opening scenes go, the rebel blockade runner shooting past pursued by that endless and huge Imperial Star Destroyer was unforgettable. You knew in that brief moment that you were seeing something you hadn't seen before at the cinema.
2). Darth Vader - Mechanistic, malevolent and terrific, the first sight of Darth Vader striding down the hallway and later cruelly choking the rebel to death gave you an immediate clue - bad guy extraordinaire!
3). Tantooine - After years of watching Star Trek it was nice to have a fully realized alien world - complete with jawas, sand people, twin suns, massive skeleton remains half-buried in sand...and to top it off that "wretched hive of scum and villianny", Mos Eisely Spaceport. Do you know any 10-year old kid that wouldn't have given his left...well, you know, to visit Mos Eisely?
4). The Greatest bar in space - Weird critters, ugly aliens, copious alcohol, no droids welcome, and the swingest shit hot band in five systems!
5). Character setting - All it took was a short conversation and a nasty gunfight and you knew everything you needed to know about Han Solo. When Solo left Gredo as a smoking mess slumped on the table and stalked out, you knew - you absolutely knew, just who and what he was....and then George Lucas went and completely ruined it with his revisionist version in later years.
6). The Millennium Falcon - who the hell needs the stately Enterprise when you could hotshot through the galaxy and do the Kessel Run? The Falcon was every souped-up junk-heap hot rod you ever wanted.. you could be out there jumping galaxies man!
Article comments
1 - Eric Olsen
very nice Dean, agree and thanks! I loved the whole Jabba the Hutt milieu also