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Is it possible that the celebrated film critic for the New Republic Magazine has been listening to Mr. Lee in some of his radio or TV interviews? Check out this passage from this week's issue of TNR. In an otherwise not flattering review, Kauffman comes eerily close to Mr. Lee's main observation about George Lucas's Star Wars movies: pure cinema:
What is especially singular is that Lucas did it all on his own. The three smasheroo pictures listed above were derived from smasheroo published works: a Rowling novel, a Tolkien novel, and a comic book. Lucas is native to cinematics all the way. Educated in film, geared and lubricated by film, he revels in film. Of all these recent bonanzas, Star Wars is the only one with no subservience to a previous incarnation, with no need to transform a previous work into screen material. Star Wars was born where it lives. To think of Lucas, unbound by any inherited stricture, dreaming away busily so that he will have sufficient dreams to embody—this is a vision of one sort of paradise.
Pretty close, huh?
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31st May 2002, 08:22 PM
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