The Empire Strikes Back may be a bit boring but there's nothing to stop George Lucas playing with his own personal universe forever
It cost $22 million to make The Empire Strikes Back, which is just over 100 percent more than Star Wars. Star Wars grossed $400 million. I wouldn't be surprised if The Empire did the same. It is technically even more proficient, has virtually the same ingredients and bursts forth into a world that still seems ripe for its special blend of nostalgically simple story-telling and complicated technology. If George Lucas wants to go on and on, imitating on the largest possible scale the Saturday morning serials of his youth, there seems no good reason yet why anything should stop him.
The only real surprise comes as early as the opening credits when we learn this is not episode two but five Star Wars was apparently episode four and both pictures are the centrepieces of a nine-part series. When I was a little boy I invented a country called Malcolmia with a long and detailed history, an arch-villain called Peregrine who caused much dissension and an Emperor's son (me) who eventually dished him. Lucas has gone one better. He has invented his own universe and intends to play with it forever. If this version of it isn't as fresh as the first, it looks to me as if it is going to achieve that comforting familiarity that breeds content rather than contempt.
Continue reading...Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/22/star-wars-review-empire-strikes-back-archive
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