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The 'Musicals Suck' Thread
Beastmouth:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 07 Mar 2008, 21:42 ---Han Solo is introduced as a criminal.
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Right after the law is introduced as evil incarnate.
jeph:
QUIT BELITTLING MY HOBBIES TOMMYDSKI
Jackie Blue:
--- Quote from: tommydski on 08 Mar 2008, 10:09 ---Trying to force additional meaning
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Who says I'm forcing anything? For me, pop-culture analysis is second nature. It just naturally occurs to me. It's not something I consciously put effort into.
Jackie Blue:
I suppose you misunderstand me. I don't like Star Wars because of any symbolic meaning I see in it - I was, what, 2 when it came out and saw it dozens of times as a child obviously without any thought about that kind of stuff.
I just appreciate it more because it is my perception - which could be wrong - that Lucas was trying to play with some cultural tropes. Given that he had just done THX-1138, I don't think it's a huge leap of logic to think he may have wanted there to be some element of allegorical relationship to the times he was making the film in.
StaedlerMars:
well Lucas has said he based Star Wars on Jason Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces which is a pretty big commentary on how myths are central to certain societies.
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