The first fantasy

Rating: 9/10 (4 June 2018)

The world of cinema was divided into 2 parts - until the 77th year, and after. Well, just imagine: you were born a year ago in the 1950s, or the 60th. What did you see as a science fiction? Well, "The Day the Earth Stood Still" as it was dashing and stylish at the time of the release. What else? Ah, the great and terrible Stanley Kubrick showed the overseas viewers the "Space Odyssey: 2001", in the far-away such a 68th. Such a riot of technology, and now it looks somewhere stylish and, even, fashionably and effectively. Further, our viewers already saw the "Solaris" of Tarkovsky (another master, only the Soviet one). All these films were essentially revolutionary, but for fans of anti-realism, and masterpiece. But they are unhurried, abstruse, and the people in the cinema though in a certain euphoria, but ... they did not see what could be squeezed out of the fantastic concept.
And now, the date has come: May 25, 1977, this is an unforgettable figure for millions of fans, as well as October 5, 1962 for all categories of fans of another, longer franchise. But, "Star Wars" in the USSR was immediately called "Star Wars", and its genre was called Soviet movie distributors as "galactic western". And if you are interested, then you can look at this stupid poster in all respects, here in KinoBoisk, although ... There are a couple of Soviet posters of this Lucas's film masterpiece, but they are not as stylish as transatlantic, and naughty, lousy.
But back to the situation. Before us, the unfortunate rebels desperately trying to shoot back from the clone soldiers (the Imperials who are behind the dark ones), Princess Leia and 2 cheerful robots: C-3PO (faddy anthropoid and golden) and R2-D2 (only to look like a bucket ). Just the same, these two pieces of iron and fall on the sand planet Tatooine, landing from the rescue capsule. They are enslaved by local barygami and bought by a young guy with the super-known (now) Luke. Luke Skywalker. And in the robots contain a lot of information that is able to properly save the galaxy from the yoke of the imperial.
Imagine, this is only the first fantasy of Lucas (started with the IVth episode, thinking that he risks and the series can fail), and we are waiting for 2 masterpiece episodes in front and a semi-pop trilogy behind.
Many charismatic and memorable characters distinguish Star Wars from other serials. For example, in addition to the above-described robots, the rogue, the pilot and the smuggler Han Solo (young Ford), the terrible dark commander Darth Vader, and countless other attributes of the series: the original design of the Imperial costumes, the death star, the Jedi Knight robes and their main attribute - a light sword, which every spectator certainly would like to receive, despite age, nationality and gender. And so many epic scenes, and copied by John Williams, that sometimes a tear comes to naught (in each of this series), and I still have not seen (nor heard) a single topic that I did not like.
I did not find any shortcomings in the film, and I do not seem to find it while George Lucas is alive. Not only that for its time an unreal number of hunches, not to mention the audience likes, so also all this tape is trying to remaster, redraw, re-sound, add special effects, a stylish divide menu, and just box packing. All is alive, juicy and dynamical, and the Russian audience was lucky even more. The quality of the voice recorded in the 77th (eternal cinema, by the way!). 98th (eternal cinema, by the way!). 90's with tapes, 2000's on DVD and now, the lucky ones who bought home theaters and Blu-Ray players.