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“Modern fantasy began with the release of George Lucas’s ‘Star Wars’, in 1977, which paid homage to the ‘Flash Gordon’ and ‘Buck Rogers’ serials of the thirties”

13 September 2020 Drew KaplanMovies

Modern fantasy began with the release of George Lucas’s “Star Wars,” in 1977, which paid homage to the “Flash Gordon” and “Buck Rogers” serials of the thirties. The project drew Wagner comparisons almost from the[…]

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“I can’t believe ‘Across the Stars’ is in Star Wars – it’s so rich”

24 May 201723 May 2017 Drew KaplanMusic

I still listen to this piece and I get chills. I can’t believe it’s in Star Wars – it’s so rich. I mean there’s this sort of like very gentle love story emerging and then[…]

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“That’s the thing about Star Wars – it’s very all-encompassing, it’s old: it takes everything from the past and it packages it forward into the future”

17 May 201714 May 2017 Drew KaplanStar Wars

That’s the thing about Star Wars – it’s very all-encompassing, it’s old: it takes everything from the past and it packages it forward into the future. What is Star Wars at its core? It’s classic[…]

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“…the parade music at the end [of The Phantom Menace] is ‘The Emperor’s Theme’ in disguise”

9 May 20179 May 2017 Drew KaplanMovies

“The Emperor’s Theme” shows up, you know, a couple times, so “The Emperor’s Theme” happens at the very beginning, then when he checks in during the invasion, you get “The Emperor’s Theme” again, then when[…]

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Star Wars “is a very, very rich soundtrack”

28 March 20179 May 2017 Drew KaplanMusic

It is a very, very rich soundtrack; there’s so much going on and it’s a very diverse soundtrack. And, of course, it sticks to kind of the Romantic orchestral tradition of the 19th century, what[…]

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“…George Lucas crafted a saga that is endlessly fascinating and worthy of repeated viewings”

25 January 201725 January 2017 Drew KaplanMovies

Star Wars has always been about the unknown and the unknowable, the instinct to seek answers where none might exist and the faith in that galaxy to have an underlying logic and integrity. By jumping[…]

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“Star Wars intentionally challenged an audience who had no idea what they were getting themselves into”

25 January 201725 January 2017 Drew KaplanMovies

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that Star Wars used to just be one movie. Before the novels, the comic strips, the video games, the television shows, and all the sequels and prequels, there was just[…]

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“For A New Hope, the crew scavenged interesting- looking spare parts from model kits and junkyards to make the ships and vehicles”

1 April 201620 March 2016 Drew KaplanMovies

For A New Hope, the crew scavenged interesting-looking spare parts from model kits and junkyards to make the ships and vehicles. Tomkins works the same way now. “It’s found items, you know, be it parts[…]

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“The approach Abrams arrived at was to go back to the techniques Lucas used the first time around”

25 March 201620 March 2016 Drew KaplanMovies

The approach Abrams arrived at was to go back to the techniques Lucas used the first time around, the time that really mattered, all the way back in 1977. Abrams almost literally devolved the entire[…]

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“Star Wars is seemingly self-aware of its role as the new religious storyteller”

23 February 201615 February 2016 Drew KaplanMovies

Star Wars is seemingly self-aware of its role as the new religious storyteller. The people in Star Wars: The Force Awakens have heard the stories of the Jedi and Luke Skywalker, but they are skeptical[…]

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