sneeze-scream + han/luke.
SNEEZE-SCREAM: there is a man at my office, somewhere down the hall, who SNEEZE-SCREAMS on a daily basis. whenever it happens, my work ceases for at least 10 or 15 minutes while i laugh uncontrollably.
han people vs. luke people: so there have been some conversations of late about gendered icons from childhood. my primary icon of masculinity was ( Read more... )
han people vs. luke people: so there have been some conversations of late about gendered icons from childhood. my primary icon of masculinity was ( Read more... )
Luke is the right-hand path and Han is the left-hand path. Everyone wants to be the left-hand path. You can't really be on that path until you've exhausted the right-hand. So, let's say, Michael Phillips is Luke Skywalker. He won eight gold medals, now what? He doesn't know what to do. Because we don't have the right-hand path (Luke, school, monastery, society) or the left-hand (Han, the forest, the wild, anarchy, individualism) anymore. We don't need people anymore. We are unnecessary.
Now I happen to be the target audience for the Star Wars... I was five years old when it premiered. I saw it about forty times in the summer of 1977. My friends and I would ride our bikes about four miles, every day to see the movie. It cost us fifty cents at a matinee. I can tell you this. Han Solo wore a vest, and his gun had a cone on the end. The sight on the gun was off to one side. Obi Wan was good and Darth Vader was evil. I dreamed about blowing up the Death Star every night. Also, I wanted a light saber. A REAL light saber. I still want one. I rigged the AUX setting on the stereo to make light saber sounds, I have NO IDEA how I did it.
You know who got the shit end of the stick? All those X-wing pilots. They were truly on the left hand path. And they were expendable. Luke and Han both were renegades.
Sometimes I still hear: "Stay on target... Stay on target..." in my head.
Those movies were 100% the mythology of my youth. Let me tell you, adulthood is NOT panning out. I have not beheaded a SINGLE stormtrooper with a light saber and I still have both of my hands.
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