{"id":72,"date":"2015-09-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2015\/09\/11\/42movies-day-1-star-power\/"},"modified":"2015-09-11T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T16:00:00","slug":"42movies-day-1-star-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2015\/09\/11\/42movies-day-1-star-power\/","title":{"rendered":"#42Movies, Day 1: Star Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In which no one is surprised by my first double feature:<\/p>\n<p><b>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)<\/b><br \/>and<br \/><b>Star Wars: Episode VI &#8211; Return of the Jedi (1983)<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Commentary starts after trailers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vOIYaRb6XpQ?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vOIYaRb6XpQ\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/vOIYaRb6XpQ<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7L8p7_SLzvU?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7L8p7_SLzvU\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/7L8p7_SLzvU<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, yeah. Did any of you expect that these would <i>not<\/i> be the first two movie franchises I talked about? Raise your hand if you&#8217;re surprised. (If your hand is now raised: HELLO. HAVE WE MET.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s safe to say that absorbing these two series at an early age directly influenced at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schlock.net\/the47s.html\">47<\/a>% of my character. The original <i>Star Wars<\/i> (yes, I mean <i>Episode IV &#8211; A New Hope<\/i>, you fucking nerd) was the first movie I ever saw in a theater, and Star Trek (TOS, duh) was one of the first three television shows I remember watching&mdash;while standing up and gripping the bars of my crib, no less.<\/p>\n<p>(The other two TV shows were <i>Space:1999<\/i> and <i>Bewitched<\/i>, in case you&#8217;re wondering. Explains a lot, doesn&#8217;t it?)<\/p>\n<p>I am a lifelong fan of both <i>Trek<\/i> and <i>Wars<\/i>. I&#8217;m a little more hardcore on the <i>Trek<\/i> side, and you can psychoanalyze that if you like, but it really comes down to liking science fiction more than fantasy. That&#8217;s just who I am. <\/p>\n<p>So why did I pick these two films in particular? Why not, say, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Star_Trek_IV:_The_Voyage_Home\">the one with the whales<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/films\/star-wars-episode-v-the-empire-strikes-back\">the fanboy favorite<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Because this is a personal retrospective, and these two particular movies made very specific impacts on me when I first saw them. <i>Wrath of Khan<\/i> was the first time I witnessed the onscreen death of a beloved fictional character, and one with whom I strongly identified to boot. <i>Return of the Jedi<\/i> was the biggest &#8220;event&#8221; movie I had attended up to that point, and I distinctly remember waiting outside the theater for the previous showing to end and hearing parts of the soundtrack (mostly explosions) leaking through the walls. These were big, bold, bombastic stories, and images from both climactic space battles are permanently burned into my brain.<\/p>\n<p>(Side note: I have never been into the &#8220;Slave Leia&#8221; metal bikini look. And by the way, check out the trailer above; her voiceover intro is &#8220;the strength of a leader.&#8221; Yay for that, but boo for pretty much every other way in which <i>Star Wars<\/i> shortchanges its only female main character. Another reason I like <i>Trek<\/i> better, honestly.)<\/p>\n<p>I could go on about this for days, but I&#8217;ll stop here. Accost me in person if you want to talk about either <i>Star<\/i> franchise. Excruciating details available upon request!<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com\/post\/50520306689\/wilwheaton-jenniferdeguzman-he-said-star\">this series of animated GIFs<\/a> captures all I have to say about J.J. Abrams (<a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyshow.cc.com\/videos\/d6lpc8\/j-j--abrams\">video source &#8211; 02:28<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis\" title=\"Curtis\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which no one is surprised by my first double feature: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)andStar Wars: Episode VI &#8211; Return of the Jedi (1983). Commentary starts after trailers&#8230; https:\/\/youtu.be\/vOIYaRb6XpQ https:\/\/youtu.be\/7L8p7_SLzvU Yeah, yeah. Did any of you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[46,13,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-42movies21days","category-movies","category-video"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}