Confession
Sep. 29th, 2004 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynneI've got a confession to make, one that I'm sure many of you will be outraged at. Many of my friends were when I first told them.
...I've never seen Star Wars.
Well. I've seen Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, but I'm always told that those don't compare to the original trilogy.
Only see, I've watched the first of the original trilogy, as short as two years ago, and remember nothing about it save that there is Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, the Wookie, Princess Leia, and Darth Vader. I think I started watching the second (which is called...what?), but I fell asleep when Luke was in this swamp, I think.
I know that Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father, and that he cuts off Luke's hand. (I think?)
So. Er. Um.
What am I missing?
*knows next to nothing about Star Wars*
Tomorrow I have a dentist appointment that takes me away from a test on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, which I have been too lazy to read. I am not minding missing the test, but oi, I hate dentist appointments.
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casirafics says that Trickster's Queen is out. I NEED MONEY TO GO BUY IT.
*searches couch for quarters and finds lint*
I will answer comments tomorrow. Er, right. And then hopefully my dad will find out what's wrong with my network adaptor card, so I can have my own computer back again. Then I can write and finish the hobbit-drabbles.
...Good night.
...I've never seen Star Wars.
Well. I've seen Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, but I'm always told that those don't compare to the original trilogy.
Only see, I've watched the first of the original trilogy, as short as two years ago, and remember nothing about it save that there is Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, the Wookie, Princess Leia, and Darth Vader. I think I started watching the second (which is called...what?), but I fell asleep when Luke was in this swamp, I think.
I know that Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father, and that he cuts off Luke's hand. (I think?)
So. Er. Um.
What am I missing?
*knows next to nothing about Star Wars*
Tomorrow I have a dentist appointment that takes me away from a test on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, which I have been too lazy to read. I am not minding missing the test, but oi, I hate dentist appointments.
casirafics says that Trickster's Queen is out. I NEED MONEY TO GO BUY IT.*searches couch for quarters and finds lint*
I will answer comments tomorrow. Er, right. And then hopefully my dad will find out what's wrong with my network adaptor card, so I can have my own computer back again. Then I can write and finish the hobbit-drabbles.
...Good night.
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Date: 2004-09-29 09:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-29 09:20 pm (UTC)Wow, you're school's already on Conrad's Heart of Darkness? We won't be there for a while yet. We just finished Virgil's The Aeneid, well, part of it, and we're going to start Beowulf.
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Date: 2004-10-02 09:10 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-09-29 09:47 pm (UTC)Same here on LoTR. I saw the first and although I thought it was verrrry pretty, it just wasn't my thing. Oh well.
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Date: 2004-10-02 09:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-29 10:12 pm (UTC)At least you'll be up to speed when Revenge of the Sith comes out in May, with Anakin turning into Dark Vader, Padme giving birth to Luke and Leia (twins) and then promptly dying. *is a SW nerd*
A dentist appointment? Ooh, I'm sorry. I can't stand those.
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Date: 2004-09-30 03:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-30 06:27 am (UTC)You're right. I'm just worried, with all Lucas has to fit into the film, that it's not going to be played out too much. But,yeah, you're completely right.
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Date: 2004-10-02 09:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-29 10:17 pm (UTC)Wow, I grew up knowing Star Wars. I honestly don't remember a time when I didn't know the story. It was always a family thing, watching the trilogy. All five of us would pile into my parents' bed and we'd eat ice cream and watch Star Wars. That's one of the few memories that time hasn't tarnished.
Maybe it's a group movie, not something you can watch on your own. I've never watched it on my own. I was always with at least one other person. There were lines we'd memorized and in-jokes we had about certain scenes. (Ehh...my brothers and I didn't like
PukeLuke, for some reason. I think we thought he was whiny.)They're not great movies, speaking objectively. The acting is average, the script and story hokey as hell, especially in "Return of the Jedi." The second one was by far the best, IMO. (Dude. Harrison Ford at thirty... Sexiest thing ever. And the planet Hoth, and the ridiculous walkers, and Yoda, and Han and Leia sparring... Kya.) But...I don't know. It's Star Wars. It's a cultural phenomenon. :) I can still quote passages, and I haven't seen any of it since my sophomore year of college.
See it in college with a group of people who know it and love it. See if you can get the original VHS, because the new edition add-ins are bad (except for the ones in "Empire" -- yay for more wampa!)
You're not the first of my friends never to have seen Star Wars, so don't feel bad. :)
We just can't be married until you've seen the lightI still love you. :)
_____
I read Heart of Darkness my senior year of hs, too. I couldn't get into it. I got it. I just didn't find it so phenomenal.
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Date: 2004-10-02 09:19 pm (UTC)Though I have a couple friends now who would probably be willing to kidnap me and make me watch it...including my only RL friend who likes R/S. Should probably see them with her, and she can keep me awake. *g*
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Date: 2004-09-29 10:19 pm (UTC)When RL friends have never seen it, I KIDNAP THEM AND FORCE 8 OR SO HOURS OF NONSTOP STAR WARS ON THEM. MAYBE THIS MEANS I WILL HAVE TO COME VISIT YOU LIKE NOW.
OMG.
(Sorry for the loud, but OMG. STAR WARS. !!!)
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Date: 2004-09-29 10:23 pm (UTC)Ok, that was much louder and spammier than I meant it to be. They're just such a part of our culture (they really are) that I can never fathom people other than my grandmother not having seen them. And, I loved them, and was massively obsessed from the ages of 8 to about whenever I discovered boys may not have had nonstop cooties (looking back, this was my first fandomy thing; had I known to, I would have written really bad selfinserts. Oi.). So yeah. I'd say they're worth seeing.
Besides, they're chock full of archetypes. We actually watched clips in english when we went over Jung and such.
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Date: 2004-10-02 09:21 pm (UTC)Though actually, shove eight nonstop hours of any movie and I will probably fall asleep. ^^; Movies just tend to make me fall asleep, I don't know why...
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Date: 2004-09-29 10:43 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-09-30 12:53 am (UTC)Han Solo? Hottest man ever, potentially.
Although my brother was a huge SW fan as a child -- he grew up in the era, man! -- I never saw them until the flicks were rereleased...I was about 10 or 11 at the time. I fell in love. I wanted to be Leia. I still have a Darth Vader t-shirt.
I know loads of people who haven't watched them. I totally recommend changing your status. Pronto.
*Needs a SW icon*
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Date: 2004-09-30 06:30 am (UTC)I would agree.
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Date: 2004-09-30 07:43 am (UTC)And as for "what am I missing,"
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Date: 2004-09-30 03:01 am (UTC)The birth of modern Hollywood cinema for one. No modern movie that uses any special effects would be possible without Star Wars.
A great story, for another.
What are you missing? Han Solo, the Emperor, Master Yoda, the giant space battle, the climax of "Return of the Jedi", etc, etc, etc.
Watch it again. Please! You won't regret it.
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Date: 2004-10-02 09:25 pm (UTC)I'll see if I can get my Star Wars friends to kidnap me and make me watch them. :D
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Date: 2004-09-30 04:40 am (UTC)I practially grew up on the original trilogy and have seen all 5 films
But there is no shame or anything wrong with not knowing anything about the films. Theyre are the beginning or end of the world of the world- the world wont end if not everyone doesnt like or understand Star Wars.
If you widh to understand them, then watch the original trilogy before getting grips with the prequels. I'm from the school of thought that says that the prequels wont make any sense without the originals and if The Phantom Menace came out before the original trilogy, I'm sure it would not have done as well as it did.
H xxxxxx
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Date: 2004-09-30 05:01 am (UTC)what are you missing? everything. the gayest droid in the universe, the coolest Jedi Masters, the greatest space pirate of them all, a feisty princess, a walking carpet, action, little annoying furballs, swordfights, exploding spaceships, battles, a love story (or two or three), funny aliens, the universe's coolest villian, a deadly space station, ...
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Date: 2004-09-30 06:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-02 09:26 pm (UTC)I think I should probably watch the first one before I see The Empire Strikes Back, or I probably won't understand what's going on. :p
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Date: 2004-09-30 06:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-30 09:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-02 09:27 pm (UTC)Star Wars Scripts...
Date: 2004-09-30 11:54 am (UTC)The Empire Strikes Back Script
Return of the Jedi Script
Re: Star Wars Scripts...
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Date: 2004-09-30 06:39 pm (UTC)