Word: yoda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a pleasingly female perspective on what it means to fall in love. The Buzz Dreamworks is taking a gamble by releasing the film during the first Phantom Menace weekend, the idea being that women, their significant others and people who couldn't get tickets to see Yoda and Obi-wan will settle for this instead. The studio openly admits that the movie is directed at women; this should be a warning, and maybe encouragement...
...creatures will assemble in a movie-plex queue so long it might seem computer-generated. Guys as tall as Wookiees with Ewok-size children in their backpacks. Teenage girls dreaming they can be Queen Amidala, if only they had her Faberge-egg earrings. The Anakin-young and the Yoda-old, the dutiful moms and the punks with their Han Solo 'tudes--all the children of Star Wars will be waiting for magic to strike...
...Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, but also to his first features, THX 1138 and American Graffiti. It has the gifted, driven misfit; the young woman above his station but not beyond his dreams; the mystic guide, the imposing villain, the comic sidekick. Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, the evil Emperor and Darth Vader are here--all of them 30 years younger, some barely recognizable. There are lots of battles and a cool drag race. It's a George Lucas movie...
...movie world of many worlds, where humans interact with other intergalactic species, it just makes sense that live action should consort with puppeteering (Yoda is still voiced and manipulated by Frank Oz) and digital auteurism. So, yes, there must be real actors. It takes a real actor to stand on a bare stage and pretend it's the gigantic Galactic Senate, or to have an argument with an invisible junkman. And it takes a trusting actor to endure the secrecy attending a Star Wars production...
...YODA Episodes I, V, VI --Centuries-old de-facto leader of the Jedi Council; later retreats to swamp world of Dagobah and mentors Luke...