A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far Away…
Thirty years ago today, the movie Star Wars (AKA: Star Wars: A New Hope) opened in theaters across the country and set the record for the largest grossing film to date. Several million people, some (perhaps many) of them on the spectrum, rejoice.
In my mind, which seldom accounts for much, there are only three *real* Star Wars movies, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. None of them have the “Star Wars:” prefix. Now, having made that rather absolutist statement, let me strategically redeploy. I have come to really enjoy all six films, even Phantom Menace, because I have now viewed them with a small boy. I see the six movies more as two separate but linked trilogies set in the same universe rather than a series of six. If that makes sense…
Thus far, our young padawan has seen four of the six movies. Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith will come later. All in good time.
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May 25th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Slightly tangential, but Spielberg is one of us.
I saw the ad for Transformers last weekend and I thought it was the most autistic thing I had ever seen. Just the way the camera angles were placed and the speed of the film was NOT NT. Sure enough Steven Spielberg directed it.
I suspect HR Geiger is on the spectrum too (he made Alien).
May 26th, 2007 at 11:50 am
30 years! 30 YEARS? Three whole decades - pass me my pension please.
Cheers