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 | What is Star Wars in Star Wars? |
Sometimes, when the line between fiction and fantasy becomes blurry, I look back and wonder:
What is Star Wars in the Star Wars universe?
Here we have this film, this story, about R2-D2 and C3P0 digging up General Kenobi and Luke Skywalker, the rescue of Princess Leia, the destruction of the Death Star. The credits roll, we step out of our home cinema, and maybe knock down a pint of blue milk something at the nearest cantina to the sound of ###z-wailers, live or canned.
What did we just watch? Was this film a piece of Rebel propaganda released after their latest victory over the Empire, subtly shaded to make Alderaan seem like an innocent victim of Imperial aggression?
Was this a documentary, recorded by invisible flying spy-droids, accurate in every detail?
Was this a historical re-enactment by history buffs vying for an independent film award, playing to a limited audience and academic accolades?
Was this the big-budget popular edition of the Journal of the Whills, some distant retrospective by the Star Wars equivalent of the History Channel - sensational and historical if not wholly accurate?
Is it a mythical tale from within the Star Wars universe re-hashed by a director looking to cash in on nostalgia?
Or in the Star Wars universe itself, should the Star Wars movie not even exist?
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Pabawan
Fragments from the Mind's Eye
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date Posted: Nov 11, 2007 7:49 PM
My take, for those who need a Star Wars universe to exist somewhere out there, the movie is a fictionalized account of said real events. Sort of like every movie about World War II is just that, a movie about an actual event. Its been translated into English, it's had events shortened, transposed or expanded for dramatic effect, and the main characters have been redefined into human roles so that the picture would be understandable to our terrestrial eyes and ears. So is there a Luke Skywalker? There's someone who fits that role in a galaxy far, far away, but he's been fictionalized in the films and in the EU.
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DJ Maul: Got Feet?
DJ Maul's Dancin' Cantina Party
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date Posted: Nov 12, 2007 5:06 AM
veddy interesting!
when I wrote the backstory for the character now known as {url=http://blogs.starwars.com/DJMaul/67] Ceebann Veekan [/url] it was bases on the idea that someone in the SW Universe would eventually pick up on the exploits of Skywalker & Co. and turn it into some type of entertainment, in this case a live stage show, but I suppose there could have been a "Holo Vid" version of the story showing on a Jumbtron Screen somewhere on Corascaunt after the fall of the Empire...
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DJ Maul: Got Feet?
DJ Maul's Dancin' Cantina Party
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date Posted: Nov 12, 2007 5:07 AM
when I wrote the backstory for the character now known as Ceebann Veekan it was bases on the idea that someone in the SW Universe would eventually pick up on the exploits of Skywalker & Co. and turn it into some type of entertainment, in this case a live stage show, but I suppose there could have been a "Holo Vid" version of the story showing on a Jumbtron Screen somewhere on Corascaunt after the fall of the Empire...
(ps - delete the first post please, sorry for the error)
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Captain Peabody
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date Posted: Nov 12, 2007 7:37 AM
Well, I guess Star Wars could maybe pass for a historical film... like the ones about Julius Caesar and George III we get today.
Though, considering how accurate those films usually are, I'd have to say things don't bode well for the realism of Star Wars...
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Smuggler Jedi
Hokey Religions and A Good Blaster at My Side
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date Posted: Nov 12, 2007 8:46 AM
If it was Rebel propaganda, then I suspect Obi-wan wouldn't have lied to Luke, his death would have been even more heroic, etc.
Although, I would like to see the Star Wars version of CNN with their breaking coverage of the destruction of Alderaan and then the explosion of the death star...
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FAN4YRS
A Rebel's Ramblings
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date Posted: Nov 12, 2007 9:28 AM
I think it is a factual account of things that happened, however, I have always suspected that the "humans" of a galaxy far, far away aren't as human as they appear.
I have always had the opinion that it is told from the perspective of an alien abduction. Lucas, the human witness, retells what he saw or was told in terms we can understand.
(I don't REALLY think Lucas was abducted, but I do think that's how he tells the story, as an outside observe who truly witnessed the events).
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Darth_Hiram
A Journey into The Force
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date Posted: Nov 12, 2007 9:36 AM
I think it's a combination of many of the aspects that are mentioned here. It is a space fantasy based on real events here in our own world. In the OT, the lines are definitely drawn and the good and bad are easily identifiable ... much different than the political chaos we're thrown into in the PT. So the whole saga really represents many events in our own history ... it just takes place in different galaxy with different technology.
Great blog!
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Aurin_Starkiller
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date Posted: Nov 12, 2007 9:30 PM
Propaganda.
Oh yeah, Firefly.
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