You just know it by his stance, by his attitude, and by the electric chill that runs through your frail form as he steps down the corridor, moving into the annals of film history with one fell swoop. This is the baddest of the bad, the coolest of the cool, the supreme uber-evildoer of the entire galaxy. The instant he steps into view during the first few minutes of the story, you just know this is the ultimate villain. The one character you really can't wait to see again is the ominous Vader, naturally. There are no slow spots and you can't wait for the next scene during the entire experience and, experience is the better description for it, rather than just 'movie.' You can't wait, for example, for the moment when Luke actually meets the princess what will happen then? It's a textbook case of an exciting narrative and what I believe makes this superior to all the sequels (knowing that many feel "The Empire Strikes Back" is superior - I must disagree). Luke Skywalker, who stood in for all the boys pretending to be on a galactic adventure, gets swept away from his mundane desert home smack dab into the middle of an honest-to-gosh galaxy-wide civil war! The strength of the narrative is / was amazing. I was in my mid-teens and felt the first pulse of building excitement as I realized all those fantastic tales I'd been reading the past few years were going to come alive on the big screen for me. On the poster, a young man stood with some light sword raised, a princess at his feet, numerous spaceships flying all over the place. I saw the first publicized poster and bought the novel adaptation.
I remember when I first got wind of the upcoming movie, to open in May of 1977, I think. We ate 'em up since there was nothing else.
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"Forbidden Planet" from 1956 came close, and then there were the "Star Trek" and "Lost in Space" TV series, both hampered by dime store budgets and cheesy sets. We'd dream about them at night and try to imagine ourselves in their midst up until then, we could only imagine such things - there were no projected images to realize such dreams.
We'd read about them constantly in science fiction novels and short stories - tales of outer space civilizations, of spaceships zooming through asteroid belts, of exotic-looking aliens hanging around space ports. But they'd been there before in our minds. They were instant pop culture icons you got the sense you'd seen them before somewhere, but were sure this wasn't possible. This is where we first met them all: Luke, Han Solo, Princess Leia, Obi-Wan Kenobi (old 'Ben'), Chewbacca, the 2 robots C3PO & R2D2 and, of course, Darth Vader. Though now known as "Episode IV-A New Hope," for many of us, namely those of us who first saw this exhilarating entertainment in theaters back in '77, this will always be the first "Star Wars." We will always think of it as just "Star Wars" - plain & simple, no pretensions, no aspirations to deep film-making or high art.
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