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02/03/2005: "Review of Jim Windolf's Interview with George Lucas in Vanity Fair"
Perhaps no other saga has affected all of us more than the thirty-three years of the Star Wars movies. Jim Windolf interviews George Lucas in Vanity Fair, February 2005, and gives us a viewpoint which I recommend to anyone interested in our current generations. In “Star Wars, The Last Battle, “ he points out the mythological sense of the episodes and the relevance of the tales to the stories that we knew already, the fairy tales and the western sagas that we grew up knowing, the legends of the hero versus the evil of the world, and the pervading darkness of the deep forest which gave us a childhood sense of the dark side that was so far from the sunlight and the good. In fact, Darth Vader may even be the hero that “makes a deal with the Devil” in the best sense of fiction writers over the centuries. Why Vader does this and why he may be not so evil is analyzed in this incisive interview. Buy a copy.
