Kids fantasy suddenly grows up.

Rating: 10/10 (21 November 2005)

Star Wars, and how two into one will not go.
There are two very different interpretations to this movie, though not suffering from any schizoid tendencies as such, but more of a conflict of interest's.
Here we have the eleven-year-old boy who first saw this movie at his local Cinema, way back in 1977. This was one of the biggest movies of all time, as was the Great Hollywood classics of their times, Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz both from the Thirties, Citizen Kane arrived during the Forties, Ben Hur in the Fifties and from the Sixties we were given Psycho. These movies, all in their own right, were movies of great significance, from a Cinematic point of view. Until the 25th of May 1977, the seventies had produced very little in Cinematic splendour and worldwide success. That was until the release of George Lucas's Star Wars. The World was about to explode. The World went Star Wars crazy. Mr Lucas had succeeded in making not only the biggest blockbuster of the Seventies, but had kick started a whole new generation of movie fans and Cinema-goers Worldwide. Loosely intertwined around the 1958 Japanese story The Hidden Fortress and the 1972 Silent Running movie, amongst others, he had become over night one of Hollywood's greatest assets.
Star Wars not only appealed to the very young, but to a wide spectrum of Movie lovers, apart from containing the qualities of a good story, such as Science Fiction, Adventure and Romance, Star Wars contained that one magic formula, that the audience, might, just might, relate to the life of that Country boy, Luke, the frustrated and oppressed life style,and becoming ever so eager to support him in his quest for Manhood , and to finally become accepted.
This eleven-year-old boy, too, had become Star Wars crazy, he too was awe struck at its fantastic effects, the adventures of the Good Guys and how they battled across the Galaxy, flying to far away Planets and wonders. The Good Guys deserved to win and the Bad Guys deserved everything they got, and in the meantime, the adventure was on. He was captivated. A Childhood moment that would stay forever.
Being only eleven, he saw nothing wrong in the way the too simplistic dialogue was delivered on screen. He did not know of the indifference of the main leading Actor, Sir Alec Guinness, maybe due to the fact that he seemed completely embarrassed to have any connection with Star Wars. He would not have understood the concept of hype and exploitation, and as he was growing up would come to realise that Star Wars, as great as it was, did not match up to the expectations of his Childhood. Seeing this movie through grown up eyes, he become more susceptible to a cynical viewpoint, or should that also be a realistic view?
The movie as a whole is very good, but now, many years later, he came to realise that some things are best left in the past, and that Star Wars of 1977 was a far better and different movie than the Star Wars of today, this is in no way what so ever a comparison of the two different Star Wars movies of past and present, but of Star Wars in itself. It has stood the test of time; it has made its mark on Cinema history and all the better for it. However, it is time to move on to Galaxies new and explore new Cinematic Worlds.
Star Wars: One of the earliest Cinematic experience I have had the pleasure to watch.