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« on: January 09, 2016, 01:02:57 pm »Message ID: 1038561
I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I still get chills when I hear that opening fanfare and see the narrative scroll across the starscape. Yeah, there were parallels, however, Star Wars: ANH is really just your basic hero story. If you think about it, the plot really isn't that deep.
In fact during college, when I was in a ballroom club, several of us were also sci fi fans - the movie of the day was "Strictly Ballroom" and we were convinced that movie's storyline paralleled Star Wars: ANH too - the two movies couldn't be more different. To prove their points, we watched Strictly Ballroom while people were quoting Star Wars along the way. And they were right! Even down to during the Death Star battle when Obi-Wan told Luke to use the force, let go, and Luke destroyed the Death Star matching up to the lead dancer hearing the grandmother saying "listen to the music, don't be scared" and he goes on to win the competition. Was freaky.
Although, I must admit, the new "Death Star" was freaking awesome! I have no idea how on Earth they are going to top that one...