Ok, so I'm watching Episode IV, or, as its usually called, A New Hope, and I have a couple of questions and observations:
First, is there bigger whiner in the history of film than Luke Skywalker? Other than Benjamin Braddock that is.
Second, according to the AuFrance rules of writing and cheap exposition, you have to earn your exposition, not just deliver it an a stupid way. The crawl obviously is an example, but what about any time where C-3P0 is talking to R-2 in English and R-2 talks in bleeps? Isn't that the equivalent of a one-way phone conversation, or perhaps closer to Charlie Brown speaking to an adult in a Peanuts cartoon?
Obi-Wan must have aged terribly, seeing that there's only about 20-25 years between the end of Episode III and Episode IV. Suddenly he goes from being a 35-year-old Ewan McGregor to a 65-year-old Alec Guiness.
How is it exactly that the religion of the Force is so ancient, if there's only about a 20-year gap between the episodes III and IV, and there were quite a few Jedi still around, at least for a while, in Episode III?
I'm going to go ahead and head to Taci Station and pick up some power converters now, I'll post more later. I'm a nerd, I know.
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In addition to those cheesy things you mentioned, A New Hope is almost "textbook" when it comes to proper screenplay format. Honestly... the first turning point, normally at around 30 minutes, is when Luke decides to leave Tatooine (which is around 30 minutes in)... plus the midpoint is almost smack-dab in the middle of the movie. We can talk about it more later, if you'd like :)
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