Word: lucases
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In the case of Star Wars, Holst's "The Planets" had been used in film, television, and even radio as soundtracks to space-related media; Williams knew that, and composed accordingly. As George Lucas was filming the original Star Wars, he used the work of Wagner and Holst as a...
Is Episode I everything you've been wishing and hoping it would be? Not if you expect George Lucas' second coming to be the Second Coming, no. Is it everything you've heard it is? Probably, if what you've heard is that it's a dazzlingly picturesque, sporadically intense...
In the end, though, The Phantom Menace is not about the performances or even really about the characters. It's about the whole scene, the blissful dream of the Star Wars experience. Lucas delivers on the visuals--he paints breathtaking vistas and wondrous creatures that prove he's got imagination...
Lucas is even ballsy enough here to give us a fully computer-generated character in the form of Jar-Jar Binks, a goofy-looking rabbit-like amphibian who is (sadly) a major part of the film and who interacts with virtually everyone. He's totally life-like and technically fascinating...
The Premise Not content to create our childhood myths, George Lucas will now launch us into adulthood, finally made possible through computer 3-D effects.