![]() Now that it’s become a cornerstone of pop culture, all the characters and situations from that story seem evident and obvious, but Star Wars has always operated on a fine line between giving the audience too much information and not enough. The first Star Wars remains a daring work of blockbuster cinema few films in the following decades have ever dared to abandon audiences in a world so foreign for such a long time. Then came the opening crawl, a confusing concoction of names and scenarios meant to give audiences the barest of frameworks for the events they were about to follow. ![]() ![]() I remember watching Star Wars for the first time, a late night television broadcast next to a roaring fire, encouraged by my father’s teases that I’d be watching “the best movie ever made.” We all know how it starts, the quiet promise of far off worlds and ancient stories followed by a sudden blast of text and symphonics sure to capture one’s imagination.
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