The Disney Corporation has purchased the Star Wars franchise from George Lucas and the rumor is that they have finished filming the first of a new set of three films that will complete the grand trilogy of trilogies. I cannot help but think that the legion of Star Wars fanatics (and the millions of us who are old to remember with joy the first films’ release dates) are anticipating the new adventure with the excitement and speculative frenzy that Harry Potter fandom experienced before a new book publication.
Why do I bring this up on a web site for serious readers? No, I haven’t decided that movies are texts to be interpreted the same way as novels, plays, and poetry. Really, they’re not. But there is a close reader of the Star Wars films who believes that filmmaker Lucas incorporated traditional story-telling features into his six-part single-movie epic. Not just soul triptychs, though, and themes of redemption and resurrection.
Mike Klimo at www.StarWarsRingTheory.com explains the nitty gritty ABCC’B’A’ correspondences that makes the movies work — and which the critics who dismiss the first trilogy as trash have failed to appreciate. If you’re a Star Wars fan, a serious reader of Harry Potter (which means, of course, that you’re fascinated by Ring Composition), or just curious what all the fuss has been for close to four decades about the Skywalker clan, you need to check out Mr. Klimo’s website. It’s not just another analysis of the epic film franchise in light of Joseph Campbell’s ‘Hero’s Journey’ topoi and Jungian archetypes (praise God).
And there is a Harry Potter connection, believe it or not. For that, make the jump!
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