My "Top Posts" highlights continue in anticipation of my 5th anniversary this July. Each day I will be posting an intro with a link to one of the pieces I consider my best. Today's review covers "Let the Right One In", comparing the celebrated Swedish vampire film with the book that inspired it, and the American remake it inspired.
As always, please don't link to or attempt to comment on this intro page, which is a temporary bump and will be deleted when a new "Top Post" is featured tomorrow. You can link to, comment on, or recommend the original post.
Yesterday's Top Post, if you missed it, covered three versions of the vampire coming-of-age story "Let the Right One In". Also, earlier this morning I posted my latest #WatchlistScreenCaps round-up (including, incidentally, a title conceived by Mr. Lucas).
As always, please don't link to or attempt to comment on this intro page, which is a temporary bump and will be deleted when a new "Top Post" is featured tomorrow. You can link to, comment on, or recommend the original post.
Yesterday's Top Post, if you missed it, covered three versions of the vampire coming-of-age story "Let the Right One In". Also, earlier this morning I posted my latest #WatchlistScreenCaps round-up (including, incidentally, a title conceived by Mr. Lucas).
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Which is the bigger movie news? That a Star Wars: Episode VII is in the works? Or that the Disney corporation will be making it, having bought out Lucasfilm on Tuesday? Let's begin with that first story. What will Episode VII cover? Conceived as Anakin Skywalker's rise, fall from grace, and eventual redemption, where could the Star Wars narrative possibly go once the fallen Jedi's corpse goes up in flames on the forest moon on Endor? I've long though that the most compelling angle would be to show the Rebel Alliance, having finally and impossibly brought down the Evil Empire, becoming something of an Empire itself. Perhaps a new resistance could emerge, radical, indignant, making the former Rebels question who they have really become. Certainly such a storyline would have historical precedent - how many revolutions have turned into regimes resisting the next revolution? But it would also neatly reflect the Star Wars saga itself, by which I mean not the movies onscreen but the grand ascension of a unique, original myth into industry game-changer, pop cultural icon...and big, billion-dollar business.