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A Closer Look at Star Wars on Film and Off

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the revenge-of-the-marketdroids dept.

mclove writes "Revenge of the Sith comes out on DVD today, and there's an interesting article on Slate dissecting the now-complete trilogy as the avant-garde, intellectual sort of film that Lucas keeps saying it is."` Relatedly inkslinger77 writes "ILM model maker, Brian Gernand, speaks about what it is like to work with George Lucas and why he thinks Star Wars attracts such a huge following, particularly among the IT community. He also gives some information about the technology that is used behind the scenes. "

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  1. Is it serious or a joke? by elronxenu · · Score: 5, Funny

    As always, any sufficiently insightful deconstruction is indistinguishable from satire.

  2. postmodern art film? by nmoog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Never attribute to post-modernism that which can adequately be explained by stupidity!

  3. Summary of the article by dirtsurfer · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Force is the ultimate plot device, and it's such an obvious plot device that even the characters themselves realize that their actions are being controlled by this plot device, so it becomes a post-modern plot device.

    Cue fanfare and applause.

  4. Re:"The Now Complete Trilogy" by Golias · · Score: 5, Funny

    and there's an interesting article on Slate dissecting the now-complete trilogy as the avant-garde, intellectual sort of film that Lucas keeps saying it is.

    First Movie: "Yipeeeeeee!"
    Second Movie: "I hate sand."
    Third Movie: "Noooooooooooo!"

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    Information wants to be anthropomorphized.