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<blockquote data-quote="Mr. Kaze" data-source="post: 2097751" data-attributes="member: 8848"><p><em>Star Wars</em> has never really been for children. Body limbs get whacked off at least one per film (random arm in Mos Eisley, Luke's hand, Vader's hand, Maul's torso, Anakin's hand... who's next?), never mind the folks who die in a relatively clean fashion in a flaming ball of spaceship or get shot by blasters. The films have been what the children want because they've got heroic good guys and bad-@$$ bad guys*, the match-up of which didn't get re-rated to PG-13 even though it should've -- just compare any of them (especially <em>RotJ</em>) to Kurosawa's <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055630/" target="_blank">Yojimbo</a></em> -- so parents blithely think it's okay (possibly due to the proliferation of action figures and trading cards) while kids are giddy with seeing things that they arguably shouldn't, certainly not without having to think about it.</p><p></p><p>But that hits the nail on the head -- the current films just aren't holding a PG-13 quality storyline together, regardless of their rating. Episode 1 was desperately short on content (anybody remember "The Phantom Edit"?) and Episode 2 was depressingly flat and meandering (why go to Naboo? That'd be like going to Tatooine in the middle of <em>ESB</em>... and for the love of midiclorians, put in a freakin' plot twist!).</p><p></p><p>I can tell you quite simply that Harrison Ford made the originals watchable -- because he could stand up to the script and ad lib where appropriate. In one of the "making of" interviews for the <em>ANH</em>, one of the actors -- or maybe it was Lucas -- told the story of how Ford was in the middle of a scene and just chokes on a line before spitting out "George, you can write it, but nobody can say this $h|+." That's why people take such hostile exception to Han not shooting first.</p><p></p><p>::Kaze()</p><p></p><p>* -- Really, the best loved bad guys -- Maul and Fett -- are the ones with the fewest lines. We only love them because they look cool and don't say enough for us to mock them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mr. Kaze, post: 2097751, member: 8848"] [i]Star Wars[/i] has never really been for children. Body limbs get whacked off at least one per film (random arm in Mos Eisley, Luke's hand, Vader's hand, Maul's torso, Anakin's hand... who's next?), never mind the folks who die in a relatively clean fashion in a flaming ball of spaceship or get shot by blasters. The films have been what the children want because they've got heroic good guys and bad-@$$ bad guys*, the match-up of which didn't get re-rated to PG-13 even though it should've -- just compare any of them (especially [i]RotJ[/i]) to Kurosawa's [i][url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055630/]Yojimbo[/url][/i] -- so parents blithely think it's okay (possibly due to the proliferation of action figures and trading cards) while kids are giddy with seeing things that they arguably shouldn't, certainly not without having to think about it. But that hits the nail on the head -- the current films just aren't holding a PG-13 quality storyline together, regardless of their rating. Episode 1 was desperately short on content (anybody remember "The Phantom Edit"?) and Episode 2 was depressingly flat and meandering (why go to Naboo? That'd be like going to Tatooine in the middle of [i]ESB[/i]... and for the love of midiclorians, put in a freakin' plot twist!). I can tell you quite simply that Harrison Ford made the originals watchable -- because he could stand up to the script and ad lib where appropriate. In one of the "making of" interviews for the [i]ANH[/i], one of the actors -- or maybe it was Lucas -- told the story of how Ford was in the middle of a scene and just chokes on a line before spitting out "George, you can write it, but nobody can say this $h|+." That's why people take such hostile exception to Han not shooting first. ::Kaze() * -- Really, the best loved bad guys -- Maul and Fett -- are the ones with the fewest lines. We only love them because they look cool and don't say enough for us to mock them. [/QUOTE]
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