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Star Wars as art
Nov. 2nd, 2005 08:58 amI was linked to this interesting article on Slate from Slashdot that describes the Star Wars cycle as "the greatest postmodern art film".
I'm not sure I agree with the author's main conclusion, but the article was very interesting, especially how the author (Aidan Wasley) equated the battle between the Light and Dark side of the Force as the interaction between chance and order within the plot of the films, and how Lucas also needs to find (or according to the critic, has found) the balance between these two within the making of the movie as well as in the narrative.
Also, I found his reference near the end of the article to the completely digitized (ordered) battle scene in Clones that was created to look like familiar hand-held camera work (chance) fascinating. Indeed, this combination of the hand-held camera angle in a sci-fi computer generated setting is one of the reasons that I found Serenity superior/more realistic to the storytelling of at least the latest trilogy of the Star Wars cycle, but I had never thought of it in this way until Mr. Wasley brought up this other example that did take place in Star Wars.
I'm not sure I agree with the author's main conclusion, but the article was very interesting, especially how the author (Aidan Wasley) equated the battle between the Light and Dark side of the Force as the interaction between chance and order within the plot of the films, and how Lucas also needs to find (or according to the critic, has found) the balance between these two within the making of the movie as well as in the narrative.
Also, I found his reference near the end of the article to the completely digitized (ordered) battle scene in Clones that was created to look like familiar hand-held camera work (chance) fascinating. Indeed, this combination of the hand-held camera angle in a sci-fi computer generated setting is one of the reasons that I found Serenity superior/more realistic to the storytelling of at least the latest trilogy of the Star Wars cycle, but I had never thought of it in this way until Mr. Wasley brought up this other example that did take place in Star Wars.