Re: Salinger turns to the Dark Side

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<< You have to remember, Lucas is playing with the Epic, he's playing
with
the classic story of G v. E, in the middle age fairy tale.  He has to
start with the stock characters.  This in some ways a stock story.  Good
v. Evil, save the princess from the evil tower, small, untrained, but
good
hearted few defeat elite, many, black hearted many.  But then again Mobey
Dick is about a guy trying to kill a whale.


Let go Luke.
-jason>>

It's hard to argue with that.  I see the films as...yeah, Epic is their
intent.  Perhaps it is the medium.  I can't compare them to, say,
Paradise Lost and still call them an epic.  

I see the film series as mostly being a lot of fun :)  I will give Lucas
credit -- I didn't predict Vader's "turning" in Return of the Jedi and it
was one of the more powerful moments in film...

Jim Rovira
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