Some petitions have worked, and some haven't. But measured simply by popularity and profit, Hollywood’s favourite markers, it is the greatest film ever made.Beloved childhood snacks and fast-food items from the '90s and early '00s have quietly been disappearing off store shelves for years - with the most recent being the Choco Taco earlier this week.įans of some these discontinued items like Lemon Ice Gatorade or Keebler Magic Middles, are taking action by starting online petitions or Facebook pages demanding the snacks of their childhood be brought back. “It ate the heart and soul of Hollywood,” said Paul Schrader. And Episode IV – A New Hope would become a bitterly ironic title for many. But by recycling and resending these references back into the cultural consciousness in such unforgettable style, Lucas created an immortal popcorn movie of thunderous mythic power.įor better or worse, Star Wars changed cinema and cinema audiences like no other single film.
Not a frame isn’t borrowed from somewhere else. The farmboy turned Knight, the imprisoned Princess, the wise master, the evil Lord and his Empire… Built on everything from Kurosawa ( The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo ) and John Ford ( The Searchers ) to ’30s pulp sci-fi serials ( Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers ) and James Bond, Star Wars’ space opera could have taken place in Camelot, the Wild West, WWII, ancient Greece or the high seas. Sinking his budget ($11m!) into ILM’s revolutionary CGI visual-effects and Dolby Stereo surround sound instead of star salaries, Lucas became one of the few directors in history to give audiences something they’d never seen before.Īlthough they had, of course. Proudly hanging its white hats and black hats on old-fashioned ideas of heroism and happy endings – and this in a dark, war-torn, drug-addled, bloody decade – Star Wars captured the heart and dazzled the senses. Or that the entire cast should be oriental.īut from that over-the-shoulder opening shot of an Imperial Starship blotting out the twinkling vastness of space, its deafening engines filling the air, Lucas had got everything else right. That Star Wars might work if Luke Skywalker and his aunt and uncle were dwarves. It’s gonna do eight, maybe 10 million.” George Lucas was wrong about a lot things. A cross between Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory and The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.
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