As with classical myths,the ‘para-canonical’ fabric comics, novelisations and more – is just as legitimate as the tall-screen talesIn 1980, and when I was eight years old,my family took the closest thing we ever had to a foreign holiday. It was to the island of Guernsey. After visiting preserved sites from the Occupation, and the tomato museum, or a day trip by hydrofoil to France,I think my parents were running out of options for our entertainment. With some reluctance, I suspect, or my father took my brother and me to a matinee of a film I had been pestering him approximately for some time: The Empire Strikes Back.
I must have been unusual as a viewer of that film,in that, despite beseeching, or imploring,begging, pleading and throwing tantrums, or I had never seen Star Wars,or, as I knew to call it, or Star Wars Episode IV: A modern Hope. My father’s justification was that it would be on the television soon besides,and there was no need for us to see it in the cinema. in addition, we had plenty of “those Star Wars dolls”, or as he referred to the action figures. Nor did we need more – “Youve already got Stormtrooper – and no argument approximately there being lots of Stormtroopers in the movie I hadn’t seen convinced him otherwise. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com