“Like the ancients, we experience far more than we understand”
…we denizens of the third millennium ce make constant recourse to specialists whose art has no...
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Considering vertical vs horizontal perspectives
Before 1930, moving picture aspect ratios were all over the place. But mass distribution...
“Back before Buffy and Katniss, Besson was one of the only directors championing stories with women as action leads”
Back before Buffy and Katniss, Besson was one of the only directors championing stories...
Disney “usually does not return to classic characters in a willy-nilly manner”
Hollywood loves to revisit hits in ways that can be maddening — oh, that...
“…George Lucas crafted a saga that is endlessly fascinating and worthy of repeated viewings”
Star Wars has always been about the unknown and the unknowable, the instinct to...
“Star Wars intentionally challenged an audience who had no idea what they were getting themselves into”
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that Star Wars used to just be one movie....
“For A New Hope, the crew scavenged interesting- looking spare parts from model kits and junkyards to make the ships and vehicles”
For A New Hope, the crew scavenged interesting-looking spare parts from model kits and...
“At the moment that our foundational religious stories began to echo too distantly in the past, a new storytelling rose to supplement what time threatened to take from us”
Hollywood is not only a fun factory of vapid entertainment. At times, Hollywood plays...
“A sequel like last May’s ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron,’ from Marvel, is less a self-contained film than a loose amalgam of ongoing stories”
A sequel like last May’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” from Marvel, is less a...
“Disney owns the three biggest storytelling platforms in the world. … They push our wonder buttons, but like all good stories, they are also fountains of potential interpretation”
Disney owns the three biggest storytelling platforms in the world. They own Star Wars,...