Posts for Wednesday, 2 July 2008
The aim would have been to strip away the audience’s ideas about heroism and villainy, and turn that black-and-white world into a sea of muddled gray. The first Star Wars trilogy is a scrubbed and polished artifact of memory — like fondly misremembered youth — and this second trilogy should have had the cold and unforgiving reality of adulthood. And that approach would have then made it logical to watch the new trilogy after the original one, thus mitigating some of the technological and filmmaking disconnect between the two.
