Plus, of course, someone gets to say "I've got a bad feeling about this."
HEH. We still say that around the house (plus, of course, "It's notmyfault!").
it's not like Lucas isn't stealing liberally (even sometimes offensively) from other cultures, present and past, in creating his world. It's more that it doesn't give anything back in the presentation of them. It's far more concerned with resonances within its own story than with resonances elsewhere in art or history
Ah, yes, good point....and I wonder if that isn't what makes more mainstream critics see the series as meaningless pop or bubblegum or whatever. I mean, I was listening to some of the media reports on "Those whacky Star Wars fans who dress up and wait in line for two days!" and while yeah, that's the ultraviolet in the spectrum of fannish behavior, it struck me that they were also sort of totally misunderstanding the fannish phenom, and yet how much fannishness has been absorbed into the general culture (gee, I didn't hear "Those whacky kids and their parents who dress up and wait in line for Harry Potter! snicker, snicker!"). But that's going off on a total tangent....it seems like maybe genre movies do their best to create a sort of self-contained world, and that delights some people who happily enter into it and other people just sort of bonk their noses on the outer shell and stand around complaining about it ("His dialogue sucks!"). But that's opening a much bigger kettle of worms about genre movies and why they appeal to certain people (hell, I like Westerns, my husband doesn't) which I should probably just drop quietly right now.
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Date: 2005-05-20 07:13 pm (UTC)HEH. We still say that around the house (plus, of course, "It's notmyfault!").
it's not like Lucas isn't stealing liberally (even sometimes offensively) from other cultures, present and past, in creating his world. It's more that it doesn't give anything back in the presentation of them. It's far more concerned with resonances within its own story than with resonances elsewhere in art or history
Ah, yes, good point....and I wonder if that isn't what makes more mainstream critics see the series as meaningless pop or bubblegum or whatever. I mean, I was listening to some of the media reports on "Those whacky Star Wars fans who dress up and wait in line for two days!" and while yeah, that's the ultraviolet in the spectrum of fannish behavior, it struck me that they were also sort of totally misunderstanding the fannish phenom, and yet how much fannishness has been absorbed into the general culture (gee, I didn't hear "Those whacky kids and their parents who dress up and wait in line for Harry Potter! snicker, snicker!"). But that's going off on a total tangent....it seems like maybe genre movies do their best to create a sort of self-contained world, and that delights some people who happily enter into it and other people just sort of bonk their noses on the outer shell and stand around complaining about it ("His dialogue sucks!"). But that's opening a much bigger kettle of worms about genre movies and why they appeal to certain people (hell, I like Westerns, my husband doesn't) which I should probably just drop quietly right now.