Every time I've managed to comment here of late I have to apologize for not commenting more often, but I have been looking forward to seeing your posts appear each Thursday. With that said to lead off, I now have to admit to impressions from my own previous reading that the establishing shot of the throne room used a matte painting (replaced with a different one in the Special Edition) rather than "cutouts," and other shots were a matter of shuffling the extras around (and probably changing their costumes) depending on where the camera was looking. I do associate "cutouts" with the Rebel hangar, understanding there was one three-dimensional X-wing mockup and one three-dimensional Y-wing mockup, with fighters further from the camera being cutouts...
Anyway, even with the thought that we're two-thirds of the way through this analysis to chew on, I can bring up the recurring thought that while I would try to insist that "fall and redemption" make Star Wars more resonant for me than "just another military SF story" (while managing to detach me from around ninety-nine percent of the spinoffs in other media), my impression of "Star Wars in the 1970s" was that it was a phenomenon bigger than anything it's been in the years I'm old enough to remember, and then it really was just "a movie where the good guys won and the bad guys lost."
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Date: 2025-05-08 10:59 pm (UTC)Anyway, even with the thought that we're two-thirds of the way through this analysis to chew on, I can bring up the recurring thought that while I would try to insist that "fall and redemption" make Star Wars more resonant for me than "just another military SF story" (while managing to detach me from around ninety-nine percent of the spinoffs in other media), my impression of "Star Wars in the 1970s" was that it was a phenomenon bigger than anything it's been in the years I'm old enough to remember, and then it really was just "a movie where the good guys won and the bad guys lost."