Word: ages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that, or at least stole center stage from it. Lucas didn't serve up intellectual considerations or emotional explorations for his audiences. Instead, he packaged their childhood fantasies and sold that package back to them. Star Wars was not earnest. It was fun. And it retaught American executives that age-old adage of American culture: fun sells...
...Star Wars label. And it wasn't just kids that were buying the paraphernalia of the Force. Twenty-somethings in Star Wars shirts, executives with collections of Star Wars toys--business analysts would never have dreamed that they could market spaceships and laser guns to anyone over the age of 12. But they could, and they made a ton of money doing...
...course, this is a concept we're quite familiar with today. We are living in the age of the multi-media conglomerates. Our newspapers, our TV stations, our movie studios, our books are usually all controlled, in one way or another, by the same few multimedia enterprises. Perhaps it would be a stretch to say that Star Wars is responsible for this trend, the centralization of pop culture. But it at least laid the foundation for this modern phenomena by inaugurating a perhaps more important process: the unification of pop culture...
...rich detail of the first movies. More often, Lucas simply resorts to twisting the plot which is mandated by the originals. Anakin has to marry someone in order to be Luke's father, thus in _Episode1_ he develops a budding affection for a queen, but she's twice his age. That--and new spaceships--is Lucas' current creativity...
...with Mussolini strikes a balance between the humor and emotional acuity in the setting of a coming-of-age movie, in this case the coming of age of Luca. The film engages the audience's sympathy without being mawkish. Unlike Zeffirelli's immensely popular 1961 production of Romeo and Juliet, Tea with Mussolini does not pander to a specific audience. It manages to convey the struggles and foibles of its characters with economy of sentiment and love...