Word: princess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film is a little self-consciously poignant. It carries its point as if it were a burden-which, to Germans especially, it undoubtedly is. Jacob's only reprieve is in his imagination. He tells his niece a fairy tale about a commoner who cures a princess's illness by bringing her what she thinks is a cloud-a pillow-sized mass of cotton (an analogy, perhaps, to Jacob's trying to cure his neighbors by bringing them what they think is hope). The implication, indeed, is that these colorful visions persist amid the gray rubble...
...like my daughter to hear me saying this because I keep telling her that she must take her time about these things, but it happened very quickly," reminisced Princess Grace, who said yes to Prince Rainier after only a few dates. Actually Daughter Caroline, 20, has ears -and eyes-these days only for her beau, Philippe Junot, a boulevardier and sometime insurance broker who is descended from Napoleon's aide-de-camp, General Andoce Junot. The couple met a year ago and have been together ever since. Junot, 36, has even received the imprimatur of the palace: an invitation...
...many of the characters imposes severe restrictions on the range of dramatic possibilities available to the actors; there are only so many ways that an actress can play the role of a Joan of Arc figure that is an unabashed stereotype, as Fisher probably learned as she approached her Princess Leia character, the leader of the insurrectionists. And Lucas undoubtedly never intended Star Wars to be a showcase full of stars, perhaps bearing in mind that some recent releases with similar box office potential did not have to assemble a blinding array of celebrities to turn over a very large...
...shattering pitch as one rebel craft after another falls prey to the marauding pilots of the imperial forces. The toll of casualties among the rebels keeps adding up until one lone plane remains; naturally, it is manned by Luke Skywalker (Hamill), the naive twenty-year-old enraptured by Princess Leia's beauty who seeks to avenge the death of his father during the space age totalitarians overthrow of the republic. Luke is an irresistible figure, the country bumpkin with just the right touch of idealism and star-struck awe to endear him to any audience. He saves...
Despite the talent and the money arrayed against it, Star Wars has one clear advantage: it is simple, elemental, and therefore unique. It has a happy ending, a rarity these days. Princess Leia is saved, the Death Star is vaporized-oh, come on, you knew it all along-and Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Artoo Detoo and Threepio receive the gratitude of freedom lovers everywhere. For most audiences the only sadness in the climax is that the film ends and cannot go on and on and on. It is surely one of the swiftest two hours on celluloid...