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Funny thing Star Trek
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pveugelaers
When Star Trek was funny. I have written about how Star Trek crossed into the environmentally friendly. That environmental theme was in Star Trek IV The Voyage Home (1986, USA). It was an appropriate theme for the Star Trek series, which looked at life idealistically. The message was to look after the environment, particularly whales, before…
Primal fantasy
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pveugelaers
Revenge of the Sith, the third episode of Star Wars, is a ‘primal’ fantasy. By primal I mean a type of basic human experience, in the form of a fantasy. Entitlement and power The experience of entitlement in Star Wars is based in power. Senator Palpatine (who later becomes the Emperor) is really a dark…
Coming home , and space
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pveugelaers
There is no place like home, even when space and time are obstacles A home is what the main character in a story is looking for, but this key character starts life in a movie with a sense of ‘home’. Say the main character is all cozy, comfortable, at peace. Eating pizza from the shop…
Darth Vader masks at the movies
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pveugelaers
The Joker, Darth Vader, Hannibal Lecter all wear masks. Their masks disguise the real self. In The Dark Knight (2008, USA), The Joker reveals what happened to him when he was a child to become an underground criminal. He then put on a mask. He is not only physically altered (a permanent ‘smile’), but emotionally…
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