tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post5417609041111251050..comments2024-03-27T11:04:31.390-04:00Comments on From the Sorcerer's Skull: What Star Wars Got RightTreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-78283116322053282292012-04-05T14:19:48.268-04:002012-04-05T14:19:48.268-04:00Thanks for the comment, but you misread me a bit. ...Thanks for the comment, but you misread me a bit. When I say Euro-style, I'm talking about the Ruritanian/Graustarkian settings not the birthplaces of the authors. There is a certain exoticism that Anglo-American authors gave their work by setting in in Mittel Europe. <br /><br />I don't think it's specifically about swords as they still carry a mystic--though the type of sword so mythologized varies (<i>Kill Bill</i> and the katana), so I don't think that amkes the same point at all.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-44267669736156611182012-04-05T14:12:56.778-04:002012-04-05T14:12:56.778-04:00My only comment on this is burroughs, flash gordon...My only comment on this is burroughs, flash gordon, buck rogers and pretty much every single example you mentioned of "old world" writers are well american.. (except prisoner of zenda which i am sure is actually english)burroughs certainly was.. what you might be better saying is that there was a time even in the last century when the sword still had a certain mystique.. in flash gordon and john carter in particular you see that while they have guns they fight with swords. its a hold over from the victorian era, which was coming to its end at the time burroughs wrote his first story about mars(@1914) Lucas clearly liked flash gordon and undersea kingdom serials and like tarrentino and his obvious love of B italian gangster movies its shows in his works.. but i am happy to see someone talk about what is right with star wars.. it was one of the greatest things ever to happen to us and we shouldnt forget thatMadDrDevohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17566715531107483128noreply@blogger.com