Katherine Timpf must be undoubtedly considered one of the bravest men of the present. Ms. Timpf is 27 years young, wearing long, blond hair and acts as Gastkommentatorin at Fox Television. Recently, she said there verbatim: “I have never interested me in the least for space nerds who prick themselves with their small space Nerd Plug – and I will therefore not begin even now you, Star Wars’ people are crazy. . Yesterday I tweeted that I am not familiar with ‘Star Wars’, because I too busy’m, cool things to like and look good. But I have received death threats. “
It is almost impossible these days to be against “Star Wars”. Jokes about Princess Leia’s topknot hairstyle are punishable by punitive silence. The Tweetoversum echoes of voluntary confessions like “Yes, I am a child of, Star Wars’ generation!” resist. The trailer for “The awakening of power” (so the treadmill of a news channel) “stirred fans to tears.” Hella of senses admits that she “six million favorite moments” in the movies have. A debate revolves solely about what episode was hyper super and which only very good.
The shops sources of “Star Wars” products over, Disney expected Merchandising from ten billion dollars, four times as much as from the cinema ticket sales. Fathers are plagued by their pubescent boys for weeks with the question of whether the tickets for the first show were really booked. Moreover, the Fathers find yourself, that you yourself forward.
As we have brainwashed us
It’s like Christmas brought forward. It is as if your friends caught in the force field of a power infantilized the critically thinking adults happy babbling star dolls. It is reminiscent of the science fiction classic “The Body Snatchers”, replace the extraterrestrials through people alike, acting as if they had a brainwashed. It’s downright scary.
That was not always so. In the spring of 1977, George Lucas was determined to show friends a first version, even without special effects. At the end of the demonstration in his home in San Anselmo awkward silence reigned. His wife Marcia, who had cut the film, called what they saw “a disaster”.
The director Brian de Palma wanted to know where the beginning is actually located at: “Who are these fuzzy types What a movie that supposed to be That does not make sense?! ” Lucas himself kept repeating apologetic sentence: “There is a children’s film A pure children’s film!” . Only Steven Spielberg prophesied the film a great success
Only Spielberg said success ahead
The met then – also know, and the world learned the term “blockbuster” – with special effects and explanatory titles roll at the beginning. The American critics reacted friendly, if not enthusiastic, and the Oscar – Academy rang a nomination for the best film from (as the but “The city euro sufferers” was crowned)
<. p id="p10" class="text prefix_1 artContent"> In Germany was of enthusiasm to feel little. Hans C. Blumenberg, legendary critic of the “time”, 1978, after three visit the film to the following conclusion (!): “People will no longer be shown in ‘Star Wars’, not even comic strip characters, but only pale zombies that look like American scouts from the Eisenhower era. Surrounded by the great war of the special effects, by an equally perfect as empty Imponier machinery that has banished consistently all individuality and all the emotions “
The universal beloved Luke Skywalker and Han Solo” only pale zombies “? Well, we write the ideology charged Seventies, and soixante had begun the long march by German media. Let us turn back to America.
“The power brings a lot of hot air with itself”
Also there benevolence for the filmmaker George Lucas did not last much longer. Already in continuing the great critics of waving practically on the German line, the company saw primarily as a money machine. “The Force is with us, in fact, and it brings a lot of hot air with it,” Vincent Canby wrote in the “New York Times”. “‘The Empire Strikes Back’ is as personal as a Christmas card from a bank.” There was worse to come. 1997 Lucas started the second trilogy, which then as now rather little defender has (te). On this occasion, the originals came back to the cinema, leaving the cash tills ring again. However, the US criticism, which had a 20 years earlier shown mercy, nothing good more allowed time on “Star Wars”.
It should be , John Seabrook wrote in the “New Yorker”, “a film with comic characters, an implausible story, zero political or social relevance, lousy acting, strange dialogue and a ridiculously simplistic morality In other words.. a bad movie”
This is not even 20 years ago. That was consensus. After the episodes I to III who exhausted themselves in cloned armies and galactic intrigue and the sour taste galvanic current left on the tongue, the Star Wars was culturally dead. Not commercially, because the laser swords flashed on in children’s rooms, and ever more obscure offshoot series fired the Spiellust smaller guys.
Who knows Boba Fett, is stupid
In but one made fun of, in particular, in this zeitgeist capsules called soap opera. In “News Radio”, a sitcom about a news channel, the boss is teased because he knows who is Boba Fett. That was in the second half of the nineties. Ten years later, in the series “How I Met Your Mother”, a bridegroom is standing at the altar of the bride left – and it is a “Star Wars” haters. A veritable turning point.
“Star Wars” was probably the most influential film of his generation, was “awakening of power” director JJ Abrams announced. “Everything we do has, directly or indirectly related to the experience of the first three films.” Considering the PR obligations towards his employer from, should the position even come close.
As with the “Star Wars” (and “The white Hai “) the Blockbusterei began, Martin Scorsese or Francis Ford Coppola would have considered artistic bankruptcy to turn sequels. Today Hollywood measures the market value of a director on how well he can bring leached brands to life, as Abrams with “Star Trek” or Christopher Nolan with “Batman”. Hollywood, which is largely brand management, such as Coca Cola and Persil.
Hollywood turns any films. It maintains Brands
why Disney has forked out $ 4.05 billion for the rights to Lucas. Now one should not underestimate at all commercial calculus, the generational change. In the Disney boardrooms as in the metropolitan areas of the media today have those men call the shots, who were teenagers at the time of the original trilogy.
your movie tastes formed in distant galaxies, (saw Bergman and Antonioni and Fellini), unlike that of Scorsese, Coppola, Allen or even that of Lucas (in the “Star Wars” is more than traces of Kurosawa discovered).
The brainwashing has worked. One could also say friendly: The reference pegs have shifted. Manager, critics, fathers – who to essential parts owes its film socialization the blockbuster movie, can not help but look at “Star Wars” with benevolence; anything else would be to deny one’s own taste.
Critics consider themselves suddenly as fanboys
If you then nor the chance sees this experience to pass on to his sons (and they accept exceptionally enthusiastic), something like the current weather situation: Each critical word is an attack on one’s own values. The fatal is that even some of the criticism to distinguish between fandom and analysis do not remember and can be toasty fall within the Poptrash -. A kind of suicide for fear of their own declining importance
When the English comedian Simon Pegg recently ventured to, “Star Wars” have seduced us, “to consume very childish things”, a Shitstorm tried to silence him; but without success, he also receives a nomination for the bravest men of the present.
Because the star fanatics in their hearts but feel childish, they build important constructs, the their God (“A children’s film! A pure children’s film!”) had never intended and only two decades later took over in his argument.
Earlier persuaded Lucas never of “mythological”
In these constructs play concepts such as “mythology” and “stereotypical” and “archetypal” an important role, and Christian imagery is discovered everywhere: Connect in Darth ‘Maul not reddish gleam and horns into a veritable Satan? Anakin Skywalker was not determined from the virgin birth to destroy evil?
But what is with Yoda, who recommends the Buddhist acceptance of death should go so far that we can not even mourn the dead? It seems that myths in “Star Wars” only reach as far as they can be found in our assortment in the supermarket esoteric BioTrends straight.
Katherine Timpf has refused to apologize. Now commentators basically apologize to Fox never for anything – but what should she have to apologize actually
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