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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: A fresh take on the Star Wars films
Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 11:20:27 -0400
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On 5/8/2024 5:45 AM, trotsky wrote:
> 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.

STARSHIP TROOPERS was another universally popular movie that seems to 
have evoked such a sharply schizoid audience reaction, with each of the 
two camps finding the other's take inexplicable.