Watch “Star Wars” ballet conducted by John Williams at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. No light-sabers but the intro music that starts ballet and each film from the series gives me shivers.

Interesting thoughts on “Star Wars” by Alex Carnevale in his article “The Jedi of Minsk”:

Some parts of the culture stay parts of the culture. Usually they relate to cultural icons, whose identities are so frequently personified in the art and Sovietesque reproduction of the image that it becomes currency in every aspect of the society.

Star Wars, on the other hand, is probably destined to inevitably disappear.

Mission-based programming like Star Trek and Stargate is about the vagaries of human exploration. That’s not Star Wars. It’s about fear of technology, and a movie about fear of technology is probably not going to age all that well in the age of technology. That’s the age we’re in.

While I don’t completely agree with the article (I also think the special effects of the first film are very well done), it provides some interesting points. In my opinion “Star Wars” are based (and very well based) on archetypes and century-old stories, much like the Greek myths and that should provide some foundation for its longevity. It is a shame story gradually depreciated with each episode.