Tag Archive | Star Wars
Films Credited to the Producer, Not the Director
In many ways, motion picture directors have become as much of a star as the lead actors who appear in their movies. It doesn’t matter much who stars in films by Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, or Tim Burton, because the audience has brand name recognition with those directors and has certain expectations from their films. […]
Oscar Quiz: John Williams
……………….. This article was originally published at showwatcher.com on May 1, 2012. John Williams is one of the most prolific film composers of all time and is responsible for some of the most memorable movie music for such films as Jaws, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T., Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, […]
Star Lord of the Potter Rings Wars
Ask anyone who has seen Avatar and wants to be snarky about it, the plot of James Cameron’s epic Science Fiction adventure bears a strong resemblance to Dances with Wolves, Pocahontas, and Fern Gully. The similarities between Forrest Gump, Big Fish, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has already been explored. Now let’s take […]
May the Fourth Be With You
To all you Jedis out there, here’s wishing you a very happy May the Fourth. Today, of course, is the holy day for the members of the Church of Jediism, founding in Great Britain, and the New Zealand-based Jedi Church. Based on the “ancient religion” featured in the Star Wars movies, the Church of Jediism […]
RIP Ralph McQuarrie
I was nine years old when I first saw Star Wars, along with a good portion of the world’s population. Is it too melodramatic to say that it changed my life, when practically any event changes the life of a nine-year-old? Regardless, nothing else effected the direction my life took as much as George Lucas‘s […]
Star Wars: The Stage Play
When the original Star Wars hit the movie theaters in 1977 and became a worldwide sensation, George Lucas milked his creation in what seemed to be every means possible–toys, T-shirts, a story album, and the infamous holiday special on TV. As previously chronicled, Star Wars has given us entertainment in every conceivable medium except for […]
The Future of Star Wars
We live in a Star Wars culture. For nearly 35 years, this cinematic phenomenon has affected our society in more ways than it just being a movie series. It changed the entire motion picture industry, for instance. We’ve now had two generations weaned on the exploits of Luke Skywalker and friends with six movies, several […]
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