The word for this movie is fun.” For once, a director is right about his own work. The plot is simple -good against evil-and the film is designed to be all the fun things and fantasy things I remember. ![]() “All the books and films and comics that I liked when I was a child. “It’s the flotsam and jetsam from the period when I was twelve years old,” says Director George Lucas, 33. It has no message, no sex and only the merest dollop of blood shed here and there. The result is a remarkable confection: a subliminal history of the movies, wrapped in a riveting tale of suspense and adventure, ornamented with some of the most ingenious special effects ever contrived for film. Star Wars is a combination of Flash Gordon, The Wizard of Oz, the Errol Flynn swashbucklers of the ’30s and ’40s and almost every western ever screened-not to mention the Hardy Boys, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Faerie Queene. But will they be in time to save the lovely Leia? And, anyway, what can a punk kid, a has-been general and a comedy team of robots do against the dark, illimitable powers of the Galactic Empire?Ī universe of plenty-as audiences can discover beginning this week in Star Wars, a grand and glorious film that may well be the smash hit of 1977, and certainly is the best movie of the year so far. ![]() Together, the four of them are even now setting out to deliver the secret plans to rebel headquarters, light-years and parsecs away. My gosh! No hermit he, but that former rebel general, Obi-wan Kenobi, for whom they had been looking. Luke, Artoo Detoo and the ungainly Threepio have been attacked by Tatooine’s native nasties, the sand people, and they have only just been saved by an old hermit. ![]() ![]() Though Luke does not know it, his father also fought the Empire before he was foully murdered by Darth Vader. As luck would have it, they have been picked up by Luke Skywalker, a handsome young farmer. Artoo Detoo and his delicate robot friend Threepio have landed on Tatooine. She has entrusted them to a little robot, Artoo Detoo, in the hope that they will reach a former general of the rebellion on the planet Tatooine. But wait! Princess Leia does not have the plans.
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