The king once again stood in the center of the stage, but this empire no longer belonged to him.
73-year-old George Lucas is that king. At noon on April 13, when he appeared on the stage, three thousand fans stood up and cheered "Lucas Lucas Lucas", which lasted for a full minute.
This is the opening scene of the 40th anniversary celebration of the US Orlando Star Wars. From April 13 to 16, more than 50,000 movie fans rushed here from all over the world to celebrate.
There are many great movies in the world, but they rarely have great influence like Star Wars, decades later. It has created a template for the modern film industry and has become the world's largest IP. Over the past 40 years, its influence has spread beyond the film, becoming part of the superpower military competition, making a small contribution to the scientific community and triggering a trend in politics.
People love this Star Wars Empire. Lucas is the founder of this Star Wars Empire. Since the release of the first Star Wars movie in 1977, he has created a total of six Star Wars movies, set against the Milky Way, and built a huge Star Wars universe through a war between a dark empire similar to that of the Nazi organization and the republics and the rebels. The most important positive characters are Skywalker Luke, "Pirate Captain" Han Soro and Princess Lea, while the villain is Luke's father, Sith Samurai Darth Vader.
Star Wars Chinese website head "Southern Warriors", believes that Star Wars is not just a few movies, but "the boundary of human imagination, a universe, and another world built by humans." Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucas Pictures, said: "Star Wars is a religion, a family, and a value that we are everywhere." Some analysts at also said that Star Wars is a modern myth created by Lucas.
But 5 years ago, he had handed over the world and the universe to Disney. His movies once represented the future, but the cheers on April 13 are for his past. The King is getting older, and times have changed, so that the sequel to the Star Wars story written by Lucas was denied by Disney, and fans come out of the cinema and will stare down at the mobile phones that are several inches long. This Star Wars world, closely connected to the deep space, enters a Star Wars-style reincarnation set by Lucas.
" Force " Awakening
On December 6, 2015, Obama presented Lucas with another "2015 Kennedy Center Honorary Award". (IC photo)
Lucas, who is less than 1.7 meters tall, waved to the fans calmly, then sat down and clenched his hands restrainedly. "I don't think I should have said this now, but Star Wars was indeed filmed for 12-year-olds." This is Lucas' opening remark. He still had the hairstyle and beard from the first Star Wars film, but his hair and beard were white. "This movie has been filmed for 40 years."
Former US President Obama is indeed the ideal audience for Lucas. He was just 16 years old when the first "New Hope" was released. By the time the seventh "The Force Awakens" was released, he had been president for seven years and had been familiar with Lucas for a long time.
When Obama first took office, Lucas attended his inaugural concert. In 2013, Obama decided to award the film giant the National Medal of Art. In his award speech to Lucas, the White House wrote: "George Lucas combines infinite imagination and pioneering technology into the art of film. George Lucas brings us into a whole new world and creates the most valuable and popular works in the history of film."
Although US presidents such as Reagan and Bush Jr. are all Star Wars fans, Obama should be the most fanatical fan. On December 18, 2015, when Obama held a White House press conference, he was still thinking about the "The Force Awakening" released that day. After answering several questions, he hurriedly left, "It is obvious that the most important thing in the White House today is replaced by a special venue for Star Wars," Obama said, and the White House will screen the video for the families and children of U.S. military officers and soldiers who died in the Iraq War.
Interestingly, the then-US presidential candidate Trump attacked Obama with this matter on Twitter."Our president is busy with another war," Trump added another sentence after sending a photo with only this sentence, "We need a real president."
This obviously did not affect Obama's obsession with Star Wars. On "Star Wars Day" on May 4, 2016, he and his wife Michelle also specially invited the Stormtroopers wearing white helmets and the robot R2-D2 in Star Wars to the White House to dance with them. When his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ran for president in 2017, he also spoke in his speech with the famous Star Wars line "May the Force be with you."
As the king grows up, children will grow up. Just like the Star Wars story, the old Jedi awakens the force on the younger generation and then leaves the world to them to change.
There are countless fans like Obama in the United States. In 1977, Jenny Cavelos, who was still a junior high school student, came out of the theater. "Everything is different. I have never seen such a bizarre, realistic and amazing universe." Because of Star Wars, she studied astrophysics and went to NASA ( NASA ) to study the planet. "I am a fan of Star Wars first, and a scientist second." She even wrote a popular science book to explain the scientific principles in Star Wars.
It was also in this year that 23-year-old James Cameron decided to quit his job as a truck driver after sitting in a dark theater for two hours. The movie made him "successfully pee his pants", and he jumped out of his chair: "Oh my God! Who did it? I want to make such a movie too." Seven years later, he made "Terminator" which describes the robot's domination of the world, and later, he made "Avatar", which also pioneered the film industry.
Peter Jackson was younger than him at the time and was only 15 years old. "It was an alien, but it was as dirty as our ordinary life," he recalled, and the movie also left a deep impression on him. Later, the young man filmed another Western mythological film series, Lord of the Rings.
Star Wars was the first movie Rain Johnson watched. "At that time, I could only rent videotapes to watch. In his memory, "Star Wars was never found, and I was always rented out." Now he has also begun to influence the Star Wars series, with Star Wars 8: The Last Jedi being released at the end of this year.
There is no doubt that Star Wars is a series of movies that have changed the world. But 40 years later, Lucas sat in front of generations of fans, recalling the initial moments, and had to admit that the film was almost abandoned by the world at that time.
Ghost threat
Amid the roar of the engine, a modified vintage car rushed on the road in California. The young George Lucas was driving, with the scenery on both sides retreating rapidly, and the adrenaline in his body soaring sharply. Like many American teenagers, Lucas, who loves to watch the hero stories of the West, loves racing crazy and seeks heroism and excitement from it. But this time something happened. At a turn, a car behind him was just a few minutes later.
Born in 1944, Lucas is a veritable "TV child". His childhood was spent in space films and western hero films. He liked the Robber Robin Hood and the Pirate Captain played by Elol Flynn, and he also followed up to watch the adventure stories of American Lieutenant Colonel Buck Rogers in space.
But at that time, these stories began to cast a shadow on the Cold War of the US-Soviet battle. The comic "Buck Rogers of the 25th Century" has been serialized for many years. The Earthlings formed gangs and settled in Venus, Mars and the Moon respectively. There is also "Space Moon Landing". The US military learned that the Soviet Union was about to land on the moon and quickly trained a group of astronauts and stayed on the moon for a whole year. In "The Sun on Earth's Stop", aliens come to Earth to prevent humans from making atomic weapons. The Earthlings do not listen to their advice and even capture and lock them up. Lucas liked this film very much, and the alien word "klaatu barada nikto" was later used as the names of three people in Star Wars.
Lucas failed to avoid the car, his car overturned, and he flew out of the car. The car accident on California highway almost killed Lucas, and he almost lost his breath and heartbeat when he was sent to the hospital.He lay in bed for a long time and was able to sort out his life before the car accident. He decided to concentrate on studying movies in college. and rubbing death made him feel the existence of a magical power. In Star Wars, he named this power "Force".
At that time, the United States also encountered major setbacks. In 1962, the Cuban crisis broke out and the entire United States fell into fear of a nuclear war. On the Vietnam battlefield, the United States also encountered constant setbacks. The government sent a large number of young Americans to the East and took back their broken bodies and even corpses. By 1970, the United States had ambitiously launched its third moon landing program, but failed due to the "Apollo 13" oxygen tank explosion.
is not only the United States, the whole world seems to be covered with scars, military conflicts in the Middle East are constantly occurring, and the oil crisis has left the entire European streets full of homeless people who cannot find jobs.
"We grew up in the 1960s and protested against the Vietnam War, and we wanted to take over the world," Lucas said. After the car accident, he went to the University of Southern California to study movies, listened to the Beatles and Bob Dylan , worshiped Italian film master Fellini , and watched French New Wave movies.
"At some time in the 1970s, I had an idea to do an action movie: what the world is." At the opening ceremony of the 40th anniversary celebration of Star Wars, Lucas talked about the moment when Star Wars emerged. "The outside world is not cute. What you need to pay attention to is to stand on the light side and stay away from the dark side. I want to tell my children about friendship, honesty, trust and doing the right thing, which is what this movie wants to do." At that time, he had just graduated from college and made a failed "THX1138" and a successful " American Style Painting ".
Naturally, he did not convince investors. At that time, science fiction themes mostly appeared in TV and comics, and were children's things; while Lucas's "science fiction film" did not have the original work, and the special effects looked extremely pale in the script with black paper and white characters. No one could imagine what it was.
Despair is like a ghost lingering around Lucas. He even felt that his film career was about to end: "If you have two unsuccessful movies, no one will ever want to know who you are."
"Star Wars" has been written for three years, making Lucas very hard. He almost suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder, using only the same 2b pencil and blue-green plaid paper, cutting his hair while writing. Although the movie finally received support from 20th century Fox , the doubts were louder. Harrison Ford , who has participated in "American Style Painting", has no hope for movies and has become a carpenter who has returned to his old career. "I won't sit there waiting for you to come to me. George , I want to make a living." Ford said this when Lucas found him and talked about the movie Star Wars. After reading his script, Ford even felt embarrassed to read the lines: "You can write these shit on paper, but I can't read it out!"
Others didn't know what movie Lucas wanted to make. "I'm humiliated." Carrie Fisher complained in an interview. "Lucas gave me Princess Lea's role and let me lose another 10 pounds." She was sent to a dieting farm. When she told the story of "Star Wars" by the people on the farm, no one understood, "You want to shoot planet cars? Or planets?" The progress of the shooting of
was not satisfactory, and Lucas "spends all his time yelling at others." Alex Guinness, an old actor who starred in "Obi-Wan", called the film "fairy tale-like garbage". He starred in "The Bridge of the River Kwai" and was nominated for the Oscar.Lucas also heard a prop worker say something similar: "What kind of garbage are we shooting?"
What's worse is that as a science fiction movie, Lucas failed to find a suitable company to make satisfactory special effects. So he rented a broken warehouse near the airport and established " Industrial Light and Magic ", and founded a way to trick out the Milky Way and spacecraft in a "garage" with only four walls.
Even Lucas couldn't convince himself. When the three protagonists were trapped in the "Death Star" of the big villain's military base, a team of white-helmets storm soldiers fired at them, and they escaped without any injuries. "Who would believe this?" he said desperately.
According to Lucas's friends, he often said something at that time, "I can't stand it." Every morning, his friends took some time to persuade him not to commit suicide and to go to work quickly.
New Hope
On May 25, 1977, "Star Wars" was released in theaters across the United States. Lucas was very uneasy and said in Star Wars lines that he "had a bad feeling about it."
Previously, he took a film to the 20th Century Fox executive to preview, and after the end, there was an awkward silence. Lucas's wife, Marcia, thought everything was terrible. "Your (the movie) was just for children. No one would take it seriously." Although Spielberg, who achieved commercial success with "Jaws", felt that the movie was "great, and the special effects were really the same. It can earn 100 million yuan!" But when it was promoted nationwide, only 37 theaters were willing to play, and Fox had to play tricks and stipulated that Star Wars would not be released, and the theater would lose the screening rights of the popular movie "Midnight Stand Choice".
Before Star Wars, Hollywood had never had such a precedent for "children's story" to win by relying on technology. The so-called blockbusters either pursue "epic" or pursue "deep" thoughts. The story Lucas filmed is not only not profound, but it is a routine: the world of
star warfare is based on a mysterious "Force". The warrior who masters the Force has a weapon, like a flashlight, and emits lasers during fighting to form " Lightsaber ". The "Jedi" symbolizing justice uses the Force to maintain order in the Milky Way, while the "Sis Warrior" controlled by desire is eager to use the Force to rule the world. Although
is covered in science fiction skin, it is more like a traditional American Western movie. The ordinary boy Luke, who has an unknown background, met Princess Lea, the leader of the rebel army, and the "pirate captain" Han Soro under the guidance of the elder Obi-Wan. But they do not ride horses, but drive spacecraft; they save not the earth, but the Milky Way.
"This routine is called the 'thousand-faced hero'." "Southern Warrior" explained to this magazine that this statement is the conclusion of American mythological research scholar Campbell: starting from ancient Greece, mythological epics basically follow this model. According to the analysis of "Southern Warriors", Lucas was completely unsure of the movie at that time and used this mode that was not prone to errors. If he failed, he would stop and tell a complete story.
Just two years before the movie was released, the Soviet Union's Alliance 19 and the United States' Apollo 18 completed docking, and astronauts from both sides entered each other's spacecraft to participate in cooperative experiments. In the eyes of some space historians, this marks the end of the US-Soviet space race, and the real world's space fever seems to start to cool down from now on.
The entire environment seems to be extremely unfavorable to both Lucas and Star Wars. Until 40 years later, Lucas still remembers the moment he drove past the theater. From the car window, he saw an emotional crowd everywhere in front of him. He rolled down the car window and asked, "What's wrong here?" The crowd pointed to the "Star Wars" banner at the entrance of the theater and told him, "Why don't you come and queue up!" He felt dizzy: "I'm scared. I succeeded."
One day after the screening of "Star Wars", the young "carpenter" Harrison Ford went to buy a record, "those people rushed towards me." Before he could react, his clothes were torn halfway.
"The United States has a short history, it is an immigrant country, and there are no local myths and legends. Star Wars is the first American myth.""Southern Warrior" explained the audience's enthusiasm for Star Wars at that time. A NASA official said: "Star Wars rekindled the enthusiasm of young people for space. "
Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars Universe Members (Photo provided by Disney) The space in
Star Wars is so concrete, it is like a part of life. Luke and Han Soro drove into the Milky Way in a rusty spacecraft, just like people driving their own classic cars every day. Lucas used more than 300 special effects in "Star Wars" to introduce computer technology into the film industry. His design philosophy is to "make the future texture." h Before the Star Wars of tml2
, all the objects in fantasy movies were neat and new, and Lucas made the weeds appear in Star Wars, the ding-bellship, and the tilted bars, making the future world feel as substitute as daily life. The success of the Star Wars of
made American filmmakers discover that a successful movie could also be an adventure story that makes the audience enjoy their appetites in holding popcorn buckets. "After 1977, science fiction slowly occupied American movies and firmly grasped the mainstream. "Southern Warriors said.
In the book "A History of American Film", the release year of the first Star Wars was set as the starting point of contemporary American films, "because "Star Wars" more clearly sets the tone of contemporary American films: applying high technology, appreciating young audiences, pursuing huge box office value, and making sequels if successful. ”
Of course, not everyone likes this situation. Lucas’ ex-wife Marcia once said: “I’ve already felt disgusted with the American film industry. There are too few good movies produced under this system. Part of the responsibility lies in the fact that Star Wars pointed out the direction for this industrial system. "In the past ten years before Star Wars, young filmmakers, including Lucas, pursued expressing themselves and making "great and profound" movies. After Star Wars, box office became a yardstick to measure the success of the movie.
Star Wars had more than that. "Industrial Light and Magic laid the foundation for today's Hollywood special effects." "Southern Warrior" said that before Star Wars, there was no company specializing in special effects in the United States. It is now the world's largest special effects production company, and its computer technology was second only to the US military.
Industrial Light and Magic has won 15 Oscars for Best Visual Effects Awards, "Harry Potter", "Transformers", "Pirates of the Caribbean", and "Forrest Gump". Almost all blockbuster special effects that can be named are produced by Industrial Light and Magic. Its visual effects director John Noel (John) Knoll even invented Photoshop software. "Southern Warriors" said, "In special effects technology, Star Wars has completely reshaped the film industry. "
What Lucas wants is change, although there may be side effects. According to designer Jiang Doug, who has been involved in the production of Star Wars for 25 years, when making the prequel, Lucas always said: "This is almost done, let's get something new and try how far it can push the universe. "
He began to conceive the causes and consequences of Luke's life experience. "When the story framework gradually took shape, he realized that this movie should be part of a larger story. "Pablo Hidalgo, creative director of Lucas Pictures, said that Lucas is not only planning to build a spaceship, he wants to build a universe.
Lucas has released Star Wars sequels "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi". The sequels are full of reversals, making watching the movie like a roller coaster. In "The Empire Strikes Back", the evil villain Darth Vader tells Luke "I am your father" in the duel, and the audience always thinks he is Luke's murderer. In the movie, Luke screams in pain, "No! "The whole theater followed and shouted "No! "Someone spilled Coke on their pants, and some people squeezed and exploded popcorn buckets. The clues of
are becoming more and more complex, and the background of the Star Wars universe to the audience is becoming more and more grand. Lucas conceived three growth stories about Luke's father "Darth Vader", telling how he went from being a slave child who was chosen by God to a Jedi who shouldered the heavy responsibility of saving the universe, and finally fell into darkness due to "love". In the eyes of many Star Wars fans, these three are the best in the Star Wars series.Lucas finally got rid of the trepidation, entanglement and uneasiness of the 1970s. He successfully repelled the doubts of the old world. Now he began to build his own imaginary empire like a king, using the starry sky above his head as the background.
The Revenge of the Sith
" Star Wars 6: Return of the Jedi" Stills
"Darth Vader" plan toward the darkness was delayed. Darkness took the lead in trapping Lucas.
Before the release of "Return of the Jedi", Lucas' marriage had already had problems. By the week before the movie was released, the two finally announced their divorce. According to media reports, in order to divide the property according to legal requirements while maintaining his film and television empire, Lucas had to sell the less important parts at the time, including the part that used computer technology to develop film image technology. This department was sold to Jobs, and later became the Pixar , which led the trend in the animation field.
After filming the Star Wars trilogy and experiencing the divorce storm, Lucas not only faced a financial dilemma, but also fell into a low point in the operation of the company. The new trilogy, which was already planned, was not put on the shooting schedule until 1993. According to the timeline, these three movies were designated as "prequels", while Star Wars filmed in the 1970s and 1980s were re-labeled as Star Wars 456.
In the prequel, Star Wars took a different look, "A sudden expansion of Star Wars from a simple space adventure to a space opera has an epic feeling." "Southern Warrior" said. With the assistance of special effects, the palace is magnificent and the costumes are gorgeous, and it also enriches the settings of political conspiracies, parliament, and other planets. The love scene, which is only used as an embellishment in the main story, has become the main clue to promote the development of the story in the prequel.
However, American audiences are not buying it. "Actually, the love in the prequel is a waste of money, and it's a mess." Southern Warrior commented, "American audiences are not interested in colds, and even boycott prequels and only admit the main story from the 1970s and 1980s." This was verified at the celebration site, and fans played and talked about far more regular characters than prequels.
"What we have about the universe is the relationship between various civilizations in the universe, which basically reflects people's understanding of the real human history and possibilities in various eras." Science fiction writer Xia Zuo said in an interview with this magazine. The success of
star warfare has inspired people to look for possibilities in space and the future. Blockbusters such as "Terminator", "Jurassic Park" and "The Matrix" have been released one after another, presenting more possibilities to the public. "Alien" shows human fear of outer space. Cosmic creatures invade astronauts' bodies and create a series of disasters in the spacecraft without humans noticing it. "Avatar" uses the story of Earthlings entering the universe to mine, showing the conflict between native civilization and modern industry. Liu Cixin's "Three-Body Problem" by shows the "worst and darkest state of cosmic civilization". It is a "dark forest" where the strong prey on the weak. Once civilization is exposed, it may be devastatingly attacked by other civilizations.
Star Wars Empire has changed from the most important force in the science fiction world to a kind of possibility. Just a good story and dazzling special effects can no longer make the audience feel fresh. People hope to explore the profound human nature in the infinite and mysterious universe. "We know people themselves, and we still do a lot of things very badly," said Xia Zao. "So we would prefer to believe in (themes) like Dark Forest, and we would think that is the only possibility."
This was a huge blow to Lucas. "It was okay before the Internet was connected, but since the Internet has been established, criticism has become more vicious and even personal attacks," Lucas said. According to Bloomberg Business Weekly, Lucas was in a very low mood at that time and no longer believed in anyone, and suspected that he was unable to innovate. "Why am I doing this?" Dale Pollock, the author of "Skywalker: George Lucas's Life and Movie", believes: "I think he must have felt like he was imprisoned by Star Wars, and this feeling is getting stronger and stronger year after year."
In 2012, King Lucas, who had been in charge of the Star Wars Empire for more than 30 years, sold the company to Disney for $4.05 billion. The script outline he drew for the Rising Star Wars trilogy was also sold. According to Bloomberg Business Weekly, Disney management was very excited after seeing the outline and believed that the new trilogy had "great potential."
Lucas said, "I believe Disney can take good care of the Star Wars series." Disney, who took over Lucasfilm, immediately launched a plan to shoot the next trilogy of Star Wars, and announced that only Lucas participated in the production of six Star Wars movies and the animation "Clone Wars" belong to the "official history" of Star Wars, and the world created by Star Wars fans belongs to the "Legend".
Return of the Jedi
"Star Wars 7: The Force Awakens" Stills
Star Wars not only have six movies, it also has comics, novels and countless peripheral developments. More importantly, unlike other space stories, Six Star Wars not only provide the audience with a "finite universe". Star Wars is a "ongoing history, a galaxy that is constantly unfolding and presenting." Star Wars fan and professor of the Center for Ancient Chinese History of Peking University, Luo Xin , said in an interview.
"Star Wars is characterized by the 'shared universe'." "Southern Warriors" also hold the same view that as long as they are authorized by Lucasfilm, anyone can participate in the creation of commercial Star Wars works and become an integral part of the Star Wars universe.
"What I like most about Star Wars is that you can set it up," said Pablo Heidegger, creative director. He turned out to be a Star Wars fan, spontaneously sorted out the information and settings of the Star Wars Universe, and later joined the Lucasfilm Story Group to be responsible for improving the Star Wars Universe story. "Star Wars is not a science fiction story with a fixed protagonist. If you put your finger on the Star Wars timeline, you can find an interesting story."
From 1977 to the present, under the overall settings of "Star Wars", Lucas and Star Wars fans have made 3 TVs, 5 cartoons, 6 theatrical movies, more than 150 electronic games, more than 300 comics and more than 400 novels, and have derived the Star Wars movies that originally spanned 36 years into the 25931 cosmic civilization epic.
"I think this way of creation is a new pioneering." "Southern Warrior" said, "In the Star Wars world, from a star, its evolution history, geological structure, environment; as small as a tea cup, a pen, which company makes and what materials it uses, all have detailed settings. This is the beauty of Star Wars. In my opinion, Star Wars is more like a world outside the world." The evolution of
has nothing to do with Lucas. Although he accepted the outline of the new script he created, Disney completely denied Lucas's idea when the new movie really started to operate. "Okay, I have my own choice, and they can also make this movie according to their choice." Lucas could only use this to comfort himself. Lucasfilm, which was acquired by
, set up a 12-person story group to set the future direction of the Star Wars universe. "Now the creators of the Star Wars series have changed to the generation that grew up watching Star Wars. Next, it can be said that fans will continue to tell the story of Star Wars," said Heidegger, creative director of Lucasfilm.
The seventh "The Force Awakens" is released. After watching the movie, Lucas finally couldn't help complaining on TV. He felt that Disney wanted to make a "retro movie", and he hoped that the Rising Star Wars would become completely different from before, "I sold them to those who forced good men to prostitutes (white slaves).
fans like the new sequel very much. In addition to Obama spared no effort to promote it, it took only more than a dozen days to finally exceed $2.068 billion in the box office of the movie.
"I think Lucas is just complaining", "Southern Warrior" said that as a senior Star Wars fan, he felt that the movie was well made, and the legendary "Rogue One" "is another new innovation, which Lucas has never walked through before. A tragedy with a strong military color like Lucas has never filmed "Rogue One", and in the end the protagonists all died. The whole movie makes you feel that it is both Star Wars and not Star Wars."
In the seventh part of the Force Awakening, a new trio was established, and the familiar faces in the main trilogy appeared one after another. When the new protagonist Rey took away the spaceship "Millennium Falcon" and the assistant Chubaka , which followed Han Solo's three pieces, it was like a handover ceremony. The universe conceived by Lucas from the origin becomes the past. This is the same as the Jedi heritage in the movie. The Jedi Obi-Wan made Anakin into a Jedi, and was killed by him who turned evil. And Anakin's son, Luke, the Skywalker, took over the Jedi's lightsaber. Han Soro became a legendary hero in the Star Wars world, but his son was tempted by the dark side of the Force and became a black warrior after Anakin.
Everything is a cycle of alternation of light and darkness. Star Wars fans don't seem to care too much about who will continue to tell the story of this universe. What they care about is that letting the story continue and becoming the legendary Jedi can light up the lightsaber again.
"May the Force be with you"
held in Orlando for the 40th anniversary commemoration of the 40th anniversary held by
in Orlando, which is more like a farewell party in the past. In addition to the commemorative meeting, many fans also flocked to Disneyland. On April 14, Star Wars Night will be held there, a fan carnival.
A girl dressed as Princess Lea, with a donut on each side of her head, and tears of excitement rushed out two black lines on her cheeks. Many children dressed as Star Wars 7 heroines, hugged with those who dressed as Princess Lea 40 years ago; the children dressed as the new villain Kylo Ren , holding toy lightsabers and fighting with Darth Vader little. A pair of parents have five children, the youngest is 21 months old, all dressed like a Jedi. People keep waving lightsabers, green represents peace, blue represents justice, red represents evil, and most people raise their cell phones and emit a bright white light.
Star Wars has focused on the next generation, regardless of the storyline or the main creative team. In Star Wars 7, Han Soro died; and in the real world, Fisher, who plays Princess Lea, died of a heart attack at the end of 2016. Before that, she had completed all shootings of Star Wars 8. "The next film will not have Princess Lea," Lucasfilm president Kennedy confirmed, "her story is over." Heidegger said the task of the story group is how to make Lea's departure look like the story happening naturally.
The only thing that remains unchanged is perhaps the original intention of Lucas to film the Star Wars in 1977, which is still the allegorical story of "What is the world" that was told to a 12-year-old. When Star Wars 8 director Rennes Johnson was asked about "How to continue the Star Wars style in 8", his answer was very similar to Lucas's answer to the first Star Wars: "I want to express what courage, commitment and responsibility is, and how a young man should face the world and find his place in it."
Star Wars fans love the Star Wars universe because they are not only visitors to this universe, but also participate. Lucasfilm creative director Heidegger once conducted a survey on Star Wars fans and asked them, "Which character wants to be the most in Star Wars?" Many fans replied, "I want to be myself. I want to go to the world of Star Wars and touch Han Soro, but I don't want to be Han~Soro."
"This is an open, invitational universe, you don't need to be the protagonist, because everyone is the protagonist." Heidegger said that in other science fiction universes, the protagonist is fixed and single, "You can't imagine an Iron Man without Iron Man, and Batman without Batman's Batman, but Star Wars can have no Skywalker family, no Han Soro and Lea, and you are the protagonist.This is the most attractive part of Star Wars. "
seems to be to prove this theory. After "The Force Awakening", Disney did not rush to release the eighth part, but filmed the Star Wars legend "Rogue One". "You won't think of who the protagonist is in "Rogue One", Heidegger said that the movie "proves that a Star Wars movie does not necessarily require people from the Skywalker family to continue."
Star Wars night was held until 12:00 in midnight, and fireworks began to set off in Disneyland. Under the flashing light, in this fairy tale paradise built in the noisy world, people wore luminous plastic Mickey Mouse ears, led by the host, pointed a red and green light sword ranging from $20 to $350 into the air, felt the energy of the "Force", and slowly said the famous line: "May the Force be with you. ”
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