Star Wars: An Intergalactic Joyride
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"Star Wars" is the highest grossing movie of all time. It is also one of
my favorites. It was released in May 1977 and re-released in a restored and
enhanced Special Edition just last month. There are many different criteria that
can be used to describe Å’Star Wars' appeal. Gary Arnold and Edwa ....
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.... were both
impressed with his miraculously fresh configuration of many different themes
from classic film and mythic origin into a cohesive and entertaining movie. He
has achieved a witty and exhilarating synthesis of themes and cliches from the
Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers comics and serials, plus such related but less
expected sources as the western, the pirate melodrama, the aerial combat
melodrama and the samurai epic. The movie's irresistible stylistic charm
derives from the fact that Luc ....
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