![]() ![]() That sort of cultural saturation is virtually impossible to attain, but Williams has attained it not once, not twice, but multiple times over the last four decades. You could play the Star Wars Main Title, or the Imperial March, for basically anyone, and most of them would recognize it. It’s not my style, but I’ll do the best I can.” Williams was mostly known as a jazz man at that point in his career, but the music that he wrote for Star Wars and it’s first two sequels, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, is perhaps the most brilliant and memorable and recognizable music ever written for film. When George Lucas asked Williams to write the score for the first film, and told him he wanted a classical score with a big sweeping orchestra, something very theatrical and operatic, Williams humorously replied “That’s wonderful. And, of course, it was a massive part of why I love film music, which is of course the focus of what I am writing right now.Īt this point, I think it’s important to stop and take a moment and truly recognize exactly what it is John Williams has done over the past 42 years. It played possibly the most important role in shaping my taste in movies, my interest in sci-fi and action and fantasy. I read Star Wars comic books and tie-in literature. I collected the toys, the action figures, the play sets. Return of the Jedi was the first film I ever saw in a movie theater. It was certainly the first movie I ever became obsessed with as a six year old. I don’t know for sure, but I would imagine that Star Wars was one of the first movies I ever saw (on VHS, over and over, in my cousin Eileen’s living room, as she was the only person in my family to have a VCR when I was a kid). Basically, I have never known a world without Star Wars in it, and for a huge part of my childhood and adolescence and into adulthood, Star Wars has been one of the pop culture things I have loved the most. Star Wars started filming in 1976 and came out in the spring of 1977, so for all intents and purposes it is as old as I am. So, from the point of view of this review it’s important to point out that I am biased, heavily, to have a positive view of Star Wars. All art should make you feel something, good or bad, because otherwise what’s the point of art? Over time, a critic’s biases will become a clear and important part of what they write, and the reader, if they invest enough time into learning them, will be able to weigh those subjective biases against more objective standards, and tell whether or not the end result meshes with their own opinions, and their own biases. For me, a piece of critical writing without bias is pointless because then you’re never actually sharing your point of view – in effect, you’re just describing something, and never describing how it makes you feel, and most importantly why. Your bias comes from your life experience, your culture, your personality, and your taste: effectively, it’s the sum of who you are. It’s impossible to remove bias from any opinion because your biases inform your feelings and your reactions to whatever it is you’re expressing an opinion about. When you’re a critic or reviewer, you often get accused of being biased, especially when you write a review that is contrary to the opinion of the accuser. ![]() ![]() ![]() IF YOU HAVE NOT YET SEEN THE FILM, YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER WAITING UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE DONE SO TO READ IT. WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS PLOT SPOILERS. ![]()
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