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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] I don't think The Lord of the Rings will have the cultural weight, as a set of films, that Star Wars does, because it is not, so far as I am aware, being embraced by an entire generation of children, for any number of reasons. (What was the market for huge kid-friendly films in 1977?) It's those children who make Star Wars what it is. LotR isn't selling a million action figures of That One Orc Over In The Corner. I also suspect that Star Wars as a phenomenon is going to die when we do, and scarcely be remembered apart from the effects it had on Hollywood marketing, which were large, and which again The Lord of the Rings is not having. (The blockbuster is already invented.) Though I am skeptical that films are going to have lifespans much beyond their audience in general. One can, with some small effort, enjoy a novel written in the very late 19th century, and with some good repackaging and a media push you can even make it sell well. But good luck getting people into theaters to watch [i]Train Moving Down Tracks[/i]. Film is too of the moment, I think, maybe. I don't know. Anyway, my point is that LotR is three good sf/f movies in a landscape piled high with them. (Well, with sf/f movies in general, of which I suggest not all are absolutely without value.) Star Wars was three, um...well, movies I thought were the greatest things ever when I was a kid, which hit a scene almost totally devoid of their like. In other words, if I filmed the greatest epic film ever tomorrow, it still wouldn't be the first epic film ever, and people's default reaction, before seeing it, would be "Hey, another one of those epic films," instead of "My mind is blown by the very idea!" But that's all completely apart from actual questions of quality. I submit that it is better, in the long run, to be good rather than to be an icon, as iconic status is more culturally dependant than quality. Maybe. Or maybe not. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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