His calmness under fire helped determine the course of the horrific battle, and arguably the war. “Were it not for the Navajo,” said a major in George’s division, “the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima.”
fairy tale, the Empire, was inspired by the US military in Vietnam; the Ewoks by the Viet Cong; the Emperor by President Nixon. The fa
saturated modern life is; references crop up in the oddest places. I went to a yoga class; the teacher’s short hand for the technique of ujjayi breathing was “just breathe like Darth Vader.” I went to Facebook for a press briefing on the algorithm that governs what stories we see in our news feeds; the executive explained it by showing how Yoda would see different posts from Luke Skywalker compared to the posts Darth Vader and Princess Leia would see on their feeds, because of the different familial relationships.
big screen, it will be the first in history to emerge without the helicopter parenting of the Creator*1 himself.
and the son does pretty much what he wants. Then we have the third group, the holy ghost, which is the blo
(Modern audiences, of course, see it as too slow; the ethos of Star Wars helped beget the ethos of MTV.)
. “The Force,” in their usage, can best be described as a kind of positive, life-filled, extra-sensory force field surrounding them. “We call for strength, for pr
is a nickname Lucas applied to himself in 2007, after President George W. Bush famously referred to himself as “the Decider.” Responding to a question from Conan O’Brien about fans challenging him, Lucas pointed out that he is another George W. He told the host: “I’m more than the Decider. I am the Creator!
An English writer and son of a newspaper baron, Edwin Lester Arnold, decided to cast aside spacecraft altogether; in Lieutenant Gullivar Jones: His Vacation (1905), he takes another fictional US Navy lieutenant and packs him off to Mars on a magical Persian carpet. Arnold’s Mars is surprisingly medieval. The people of Hither, indolent and soaked
A second serial, Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars, followed in 1938, based on another Raymond storyline. Film historians have often assumed the setting was changed from Mongo to Mars to cash in on Orson Welles’s sensational radio broadcast of War of the Worlds that year. But the timing doesn’t add up: the serial was released in March, while Welles’s fear-inducing play was a Halloween performance. Mars continued to excite the popular imagination no matter the month. Besides, Buck
fb2epub
Drag & drop your files
(not more than 5 at once)