9/20/2023 0 Comments Redline reviews starwars![]() His aliens are really just humans in odd skins. If Stanley Kubrick gave us man humbled by the universe, Lucas gives us the universe domesticated by man. The series is essentially human mythology, set in space, but not occupying it. The stars themselves are little more than pinpoints on a black curtain, and "Star Wars" has not drawn inspiration from the color photographs being captured by the Hubble Telescope. The plot details (of embargoes and blockades) tend to diminish the size of the movie's universe-to shrink it to the scale of a 19th century trade dispute. The dialogue is pretty flat and straightforward, although seasoned with a little quasi-classical formality, as if the characters had read but not retained " Julius Caesar." I wish the "Star Wars" characters spoke with more elegance and wit (as Gore Vidal's Greeks and Romans do), but dialogue isn't the point, anyway: These movies are about new things to look at. The whole series sometimes feel like a cover from Thrilling Wonder Stories, come to life. Set against awesome backdrops, the characters in "The Phantom Menace" inhabit a plot that is little more complex than the stories I grew up on in science-fiction magazines. And the other cities: one city Venetian, with canals, another looking like a hothouse version of imperial Rome, and a third that seems to have grown out of desert sands. And other places: the cityscape with the waterfall that has a dizzying descent through space. The Senate chamber, a vast sphere with senators arrayed along the inside walls, and speakers floating on pods in the center. ![]() Consider the underwater cities, floating in their transparent membranes. There are new places here-new kinds of places. ![]() Unlike many movies, these are made to be looked at more than listened to, and George Lucas and his collaborators have filled "The Phantom Menace" with wonderful visuals. I do not attend with the hope of gaining insights into human behavior. Anakin is only a fresh-faced kid in Episode I in IV, V and VI, he has become Darth Vader.Īt the risk of offending devotees of the Force, I will say that the stories of the "Star Wars" movies have always been space operas, and that the importance of the movies comes from their energy, their sense of fun, their colorful inventions and their state-of-the-art special effects. Here we first see Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Yoda and R2-D2 and C-3PO. ![]() If some of the characters are less than compelling, perhaps that's inevitable: This is the first story in the chronology and has to set up characters who (we already know) will become more interesting with the passage of time. Check out the trailer below."Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace," to cite its full title, is an astonishing achievement in imaginative filmmaking. Star Wars Visions will stream on Disney Plus from (Oh My!), Stephanie Sheh, Alison Brie and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lucy Liu, Kimiko Glenn, Henry Revealed a starry voice cast for the dub that will include The trailer is available in both original Japanese language and English dubbed We see familiar landscapes and iconography run through an anime lens. Some segments are instantly recognisable, such as Trigger short The Twins from Hiroyuki Imaishi, which shares its style with Promare, or Science Saru's Osamu Tezuka inspired T0-B1. There's a thrilling mix of lightsaber duels and blaster action, high-speed chases and space battles. We get to see the full range of styles employed by the seven anime studios involved. LucasFilm have now released the full trailer. Restricted to a single time frame and free to use existing characters orĬreate new ones, LucasFilm gave the animators complete creative freedom.įollowing on from the First Look back at the Anime Expo Lite event, LucasFilm has assembled a line-up of anime creators consisting of both established names and rising stars to create brand new stories set in the Star Wars universe. Star Wars Visions has to be the biggest one yet. The Animatrix inspired several other similar projects, allowing anime creators the chance to play in other sandboxes: the world of Batman in Gotham Knight, the Halo universe in Halo Legends. Some would say it was the best thing to come out of the sequels. Takeshi Koike ( Redline) and Peter Chung ( Aeon Flux) and contributions from studios such as Madhouse, Studio 4C and Shinichiro Watanabe ( Cowboy Bebop), Yoshiaki Kawajiri ( Ninja Scroll). The Animatrix (2003) featured animation legends such as Back when they were filming The Matrix sequels, The Wachowskis reached out to some of the biggest names in anime and asked them to create new stories taking place in the world of the films.
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