Word: vader
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...tech, paint-drying minimalism of the international art-film brigade. In other respects, Lucas' film was right in step with the tendencies of the most prominent movies here. If we see the Star Wars sextet as a single epic, then surely it is the saga of Darth Vader's rivalry with the son he had lost 20 years before. That was precisely the dominant motif of Cannes '05: fathers trying to reconnect with...
...film, directed by Star Wars creator George Lucas, follows the young, passionate Jedi warrior Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) as he betrays his mentor Obi-wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), on his way to becoming Darth Vader...
Bolger and his girlfriend, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and of African and African American Studies Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, stayed up late to see one of the first screenings of “Revenge of the Sith.” He wore a Darth Vader helmet, which only caused minor tension with the self-styled Jedi knights they sat next to in the theater...
...That's where the originality and bravery of this film lies. It grows beyond a simple Pinocchio parable to see that people are not all good or bad, that the young man who saves one life can easily corrupt another. Radu is not Anakin Skywalker or Darth Vader. He's capable, as we all are, of being both...
...offshoot of the remake is the prequel, which takes a famous character and asks, How'd he get that way? George Lucas has traced his signature hero and villain back to their boyhoods--Indy with the Young Indiana Jones TV series, Darth Vader with three Star Wars episodes. But the megamovie template for a coming-of-age fantasy saga is the 2002 Spider-Man, which earned $800 million worldwide and spawned its own robust franchise. If the strategy works, it feeds Hollywood's itch to be endlessly self-derivative. First comes the remake--or, in mogul-speak, the reimagining--then...