Director: George Lucas
Starring: don't act like you don't know
Head in sharp irritating sinus+neuralgic pain for the past 3 days, which has put a damper on movie analysis (including the long-play essay on Poltergeist ... honestly, Filmtank, I'm working on it). What do you watch when your head hurts? Well, unless you own a lot of Winona Ryder movies (which we don't ... odd) you put on something comfortable and safe, like Star Wars.
It's a silly fairy tale --- bad guys in black; good guys in white; guys somewhere in between in brown --- but, by the same coin, it's also not a challenge to tired gray cells. It's like putting on slippers and a Snuggie. And, like any decent movie worthy of analysis, each time I watch it I find something new to love, like this scene:
Obi Wan has just done the impressive disabling of the tractor beam and is sneaking out. He's going to use the Force, but he doesn't really need to because these guys aren't paying attention to him anyway:Stormtrooper 1: You seen that new VT 16?
Stormtrooper 2: Yeah, some [unintelligible] guys were telling me about it. They say it's ... quite fancy.
Made me feel kind of sorry for them when the Death Star blew up.
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