Just before Christmas in the Cinemas: The sinister Kylo Ren (left) shows Finn and Rey a compelling argument for the dark side of power .
“Star Wars” in 1977 was a pretty cool movie. But there is a scene that the young spectators at that time more than the cries zusetzte Met pilots shortly before their X-wing shattered on the Death Star. It plays just before the final battle in a hangar. Luke Skywalker, the hero of the story, mounts his Jet since his companion Han Solo talking to him. Verdruckst like a teenager who should read a prayer, he mutters: “May the force be with you.”
confession can be really embarrassing, especially for a former crook, who, after a good 60 minutes of film previously made with the “power” as the central vocabulary of lightsaber-reinforced Jedi known was only noted: “Kitsch religions and ancient weapons are nothing against a good Blaster”, by which he means his laser gun
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On Thursday now comes the seventh episode in the Space fairy tale in the cinema – “The Awakening of power”. For the little that had been to learn about the plot, heard that she plays three decades after episode six. And although this is titled “Return of the Jedi,” the young protagonists of the continuation of the Jedi know obviously only from legends. “It is true, all of it,” explained to them an aged Han Solo in the movie trailer and watched it no less embarrassed than the wash time in the hangar scene from 1977. ‘/ P>
Liturgical Jedi blessing
Something is obviously very strange on this “power”, both in the imaginary world of the Star Wars movies and in our reality, in this imagination a global has spawned a cultural phenomenon – not only in the West and not only in developed countries. The Jedi have long been considered a blessing for compulsory salutation among Star Wars fans around the world. In English it sounds downright liturgically: “May the Force be with you. Always. “
The cultural sciences have no other choice but to deal with it. Indeed missing discussions that power (“Force”) in hardly any of the already numerous scholarly texts to fathom the intergenerational success of Space fairy tale and try to measure its socio-cultural influence. As a source of inspiration that may have led to the Star Wars creator George Lucas in the design of the Jedi spirituality, especially Taoism is identified. The teachings of the legendary Chinese sage Lao Tzu knows a transcendent primal ground of the world and the emergence and transformation of all things by the dynamics of the two polar principles yin and yang, words which originally meant “shady” and “sunny”. For Lucas it is an immaterial entity, give up power, which is linked in an unclear way, the phenomenon of life, and from which there is a dark and a light side. The two are to be kept in the global equilibrium, but can be administered locally by suitable gifted living beings (especially the Jedi or their counterparts, the Sith) quasi amplified and used to unusual actions, which make the action scenes of the films then extensively exploited.
A legacy of the hippy era?
In addition to Taoist be discussed also other influences on the Lucassche power concept, preferably the Far East. And so the way is short to hippie generation, which was born in 1944 Lucas barely listened. But when “Star Wars” with the hippie years would like to bring in connection, because most as antithesis. The film from 1977 must for all those who maintained in 1968 in the heart, have been the sheer horror: the symphonic film music, the elements of classic Western, the positive representation of hierarchies, including military, to a final scene that Leni Riefenstahl might would hardly have staged different.
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