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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: A fresh take on the Star Wars films
Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 16:04:22 -0400
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On 5/7/2024 2:58 PM, Rhino wrote:
> On Tue, 7 May 2024 13:33:28 -0400
> moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/7/2024 11:23 AM, Rhino wrote:
>>> A friend send me a link to this video today and it seemed to be very
>>> appropriate for this newsgroup so I'm posting it here:
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnEIDUXSULI [11 minutes]
>>>
>>> I'd never thought of Star Wars as essentially being a silent film
>>> with music replacing dialog but the presenter makes a reasonably
>>> strong case for his argument. There are clips of interviews with
>>> John Williams giving his thoughts as well.
>>
>> 'Dialogue'.  Heh...
>>
> Is this your idea of a spelling flame?
> 
> I know perfectly well that "dialogue" is the correct spelling everywhere
> in the Anglosphere *except* in the USA. which insists on the simplified
> spelling "dialog". I know and use both spellings. I just happened to
> use the American spelling today. So what?

The dialogue in the first SW was laughable ...enjoyable only because one 
could think the corn tongue-in-cheek, rather than the solemn myth-making 
it turns out was intended.  The actors themselves were astonished.