HOLY BABY JESUS
Dec. 24th, 2007 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
knights_say_nihFrom THIS-- http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.05/lucas.html?pg=3&topic=lucas&topic_set=-- article on Star Wars.
Lucas never met the young Canadian who influenced him so deeply; Lipsett committed suicide in 1986 after battling poverty and mental illness for years. But like a programmer sneaking Tolkien lines into his code, Lucas has planted stealth references to 21-87 throughout his films. The events in the student-film version of THX took place in the year 2187, and the numerical title itself was an homage. In the feature-length version, Duvall's character makes his run from a subterranean city when he learns that the love of his life was murdered by the authorities on the date "21/87." And in the first Star Wars, when Luke and Han Solo blast into the detention center to rescue Princess Leia, they discover that the stormtroopers are holding her as a prisoner in cell 2187.
The rabbit hole goes even deeper: One of the audio sources Lipsett sampled for 21-87 was a conversation between artificial intelligence pioneer Warren S. McCulloch and Roman Kroitor, a cinematographer who went on to develop Imax. In the face of McCulloch's arguments that living beings are nothing but highly complex machines, Kroitor insists that there is something more: "Many people feel that in the contemplation of nature and in communication with other living things, they become aware of some kind of force, or something, behind this apparent mask which we see in front of us, and they call it God."
When asked if this was the source of "the Force," Lucas confirms that his use of the term in Star Wars was "an echo of that phrase in 21-87."
ROMAN KROITOR IS MY GRAMPA. GRAMPA INVENTED THE FUCKING FORCE, BABY.
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Date: 2007-12-24 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-24 07:04 pm (UTC)Is he's really annoyed by the whole thing, since the FIRST film maker took the phrase slightly out of context, and now he's like 'I'm becoming famous under Lucas's shadow??? D:'
Which is fair, because he was nominated for an Oscar at one point... so he is, you know, important and shit. Just, also Canadian, and into documentaries, so hugely unheard of.
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Date: 2007-12-24 07:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-24 07:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-25 02:59 am (UTC)