Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film opens in 50 theaters across the country, but advance screenings and word-of-mouth have already given it an outsized reputation among film buffs and science fiction addicts-two groups united usually only by their enthusiasm. The first week in April, indeed, 6,000 color transparencies from the film were stolen from the production offices; they are now selling for more than $5 each to sci-fi freaks. Some of the spaceship models used for special effects were later stolen from a workshop, and they too are being advertised on the open market. "Star Wars is the costume epic...
...chess with holographic figures. Instead of a bishop capturing a knight, a little dinosaur jumps a small, ectoplasmic BEM (as sci-fi fans call bug-eyed monsters) and proceeds to devour him. (Losing makes wookies so dyspeptic that Artoo is sagely counseled to let Chewjbacca win.) All science fiction movies these days are measured against Stanley Kubrick's monumental 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). But even by that standard, Star Wars is tops. To work out the photographic special effects, Lucas hired John Dykstra, an expert in the field. For his space scenes, Kubrick had used what is called...
...century Russian counterparts-problems of underdevelopment, social and political injustice, gaping class divisions and a religious sense of the land and peasantry. Niña Huanca is yet another powerful example of what happens when a talented writer handles such ageless material with the spontaneous techniques of 20th century fiction...
...Thin Red Line (1962) impressed some reviewers. Jones, like Dreiser, often infused his fiction with a force that transcended the clumsy writing. Before long, however, even his primitive power seemed to have fizzled away. Such novels as Go to the Widow-Maker (1961) and The Merry Month of May (1971) were not only badly written but also burdened by fatuous philosophizing...
...mind of the sort of loser who, if properly manipulated, can be turned into a political assassin. Now the book has fallen into the heavy hands of Director Stanley Kramer, and, despite Kennedy's presence at the screenwriter's keyboard, everything that made the book good, popular fiction has somehow been lost...