Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 04:45:21 -0500
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On 5/7/24 3:04 PM, moviePig wrote:
> 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.


Agreed.  How Cowboys and Indians in Space got to the level of hype it 
has is beyond me.