I am a post-80s in the countryside. The first Star Wars movie I watched was the "Phantom Menace" released in 1999. This is also the first foreign science fiction movie I watched.
That year, I just turned 15 years old. The school where I go to technical secondary school will have an extracurricular activity every weekend, and there will be different forms at different times. Sometimes it’s a picnic, sometimes it’s reading a book in the library, sometimes it’s a basketball game, a chess game, and so on. On Monday at the end of December of this year, the school teacher informed us that this week’s activity was to go to the cinema to watch a movie. After watching it, I wrote about the feelings, and also mysteriously revealed that the movie we watched is science fiction, which will be very shocking and the special effects will be amazing. Going to the cinema to watch movies is indeed very rare for many of our children from rural areas at the time. There are very few ordinary movies, let alone science fiction? Naturally everyone is very happy and looking forward to it.
Finally, when the time came, I got my wish and walked into the cinema with my classmates. I still can't remember the shock that this movie brought us at that time. The magnificent fantasy, the vast starry sky, there is such a wonderful story; the special effects presented on the big screen make us very amazed.
In fact, before 1999, many well-known science fiction blockbusters had been released abroad. Where did I know that the first Star Wars "New Hope" was released as early as 1977 and made a global sensation. The second and third subsequent films have all ended, and what I'm watching now is just the story forward. In China in the 1970s, televisions were not popular in rural areas, so how can you talk about watching science fiction movies? Even in the 1990s, at the end of the 20th century, in addition to Star Wars, the famous "Terminator" series in science fiction movies, such as "Jurassic Park", "ET Aliens", "Men in Black", "Star Wars" and other works came out. For a long time, but the place where I grew up is a remote rural village, how many opportunities do I have to contact? How can children born in rural areas born in the 1980s have such rich entertainment conditions as they are now? There is no WIFI, no WeChat, no Douyin, mobile phones are still in their early stages, and computers can only be seen in the computer room of the school. Usually it’s not picking wild fruits and birds, skipping ropes and kicking shuttlecocks, or fishing to catch shrimps. The only electronic entertainment is that the children’s homes with good conditions have a small bully game console. What you can do is often cheeky to play games and play games. Douluo. In addition, what is left to watch TV with the adults at night? (At that time, my hometown was still a small black and white TV). The most popular ones on TV are Legend of the Condor Heroes, The Legend of the Dragon, the Journey to the West, the Three Kingdoms, and the New White. Martial arts and myths related to Chinese traditional culture, such as The Legend of the Lady. The knowledge of so-called science fiction films and fantasy films almost all come from foreign cartoons, such as "Transformers", "Devil Heroes", "Doraemon", "Time Ship" and so on. Before I watched Star Wars, the only sci-fi movie I watched was "Babe of Thunder" on CCTV, a little boy who can discharge. There is also a TV series "Little Dragon Man" with a science fiction nature. Although these domestically produced works are not bad, they grew up with me, and I have always liked them, but when I suddenly saw the grand scene of Star Wars in the cinema, I instantly felt that Chinese science fiction movies are really inferior to foreign blockbusters. Far, too far. Because of comparison, this is not a grade at all! (The special effects of "Phantom Threat" are still ahead of domestic production)
So, even though this movie has been in theaters for 20 years, I now recall the plot, the characters, and the pictures in my mind are still very clear.
At the beginning of the movie, the "Trade Alliance" blocked the beautiful planet of Naboo by an incomparably huge crab-shaped spacecraft. The small spacecraft of the special envoy of the Republic carries the Jedi knights through the vast sky, ready to negotiate. Then the small spaceship landed on the mothership of the alliance, and various mechanical and skinny B2 combat robots appeared in front of them, speaking like an old-fashioned tape machine, and they were very happy. The alliance discovered that it was the "police" Jedi of the Republic. How do you talk about it? Doesn't this show that the parliament will force itself to stop? Is it confrontation or negotiation? The alliance rulers of the two alien races couldn't make up their minds, so the governor began to contact the back-office boss, the big boss Palpatine of the Star Wars villain, and send a ceremonial robot to fudge before the contact. And this Pharaoh has written the script long ago, all the conspiracy and planning are all in order, only waiting for him to write, direct and perform, let all the galactic forces yield, turn the force into darkness, and turn the Republic into an empire. Become the emperor of the galaxy and become a dictator. On the distant planet Tatooine, with the massive gathering of the Force, Anakin Skywalker has been born, and the future Black Warrior childhood is about to appear. With Kui Gang Jin, Obi-Wan drew out his lightsaber and started hacking robots. The legend of Star Wars Jedi and Sith officially began in this prequel!
Naturally, I didn't know the ins and outs of the conflicts, contradictions, character settings and other elements of the entire Star Wars story. As a result, in the next few years, because I liked it, I kept rewatching other Star Wars movies and looking up information online. It was not until the release of "Revenge of the Sith" in 2005 that I slowly sorted out that Star Wars turned out to be a grandiose The story line of "Not only has complex historical genes, political innuendo, but also the discussion of human nature, the split and transformation of religious beliefs, like the "force" of the Chinese Yin Yang and Five Elements Qi, which balances each other, restricts each other, and produces restraint. As well as anti-gravity, super-light speed, energy field and other galactic black technologies that cannot be explained by earth science. Lucas is worthy of being the father of Star Wars. His Star Wars has indeed created an era in American movies and has also affected global audiences.
However, when I was a teenager, the most intuitive feeling when I saw this movie for the first time was mainly due to the super special effects and the magical world shown by the movie-an outer space full of imagination that I had never seen before. , A long, long time ago the Milky Way.
In my opinion at the time, all kinds of alien creatures walked and lived on different planets, and the effect was so realistic and incredible! Especially at the beginning, Kui Gangjin took the slag ice skimmer through the inner ocean of Naboo, and various deep-sea monsters emerged in an endless stream, one bigger than one, one more fierce, the thrill of the protagonist being bitten was very exciting. Besides, the Jedi warriors took out laser swords to fight. Their weapons can not only reflect the beam particles emitted by the enemy's light energy weapons, but also cut and penetrate almost all physical objects, such as metal spaceship steel plates, and groups of robots in the light. The power of the sword is as fragile as cutting tofu. How cool is this? The spacecraft can activate the protective cover without being hit, and the robot can also have it. The Destroyer Machine of the Trade Alliance is just like that. With a shield, the lightsaber bounce is useless. The square Jedi has lightsabers, and the villains naturally have them. In the end, the duel between Darth-Moore and Obi-Wan is the most classic battle among all Star Wars lightsaber duels.
If you want to talk about characters and characters, I mainly like these four characters in "The Threat of Ghosts": Jedi Knight Kui Gangjin, Little Skywalker Anakin, Queen Naboo and R2 D2 Robot.
This is probably the only work that Kui Gang Jin appeared in Star Wars. He is the master of Obi-Wan and the elder of Bole who discovered the genius of Anakin. He is wise and has a high original force intuition. He is sincere about the Republic and the Jedi Presbyterian Church. Although the little boy he brought back will be incomparably dark in the future, in the end he was lost and knew how to return, fulfilling the prophecy of bringing the Force back to balance. It's a pity that the fighting power is not very high among all the Jedi.
Needless to say little Skywalker and Queen Naboo, the perfect golden girl. Both of them are like children, and the sprouts of love have begun in their simple love. Anakin was really good when she was a child, very likable. Know how to repair robots, drive spaceships, and tease girls. The interstellar airship competition demonstrated super-level response capabilities and driving skills. At a critical moment in the Battle of Naboo, the aircraft was driven to destroy the enemy's command ship, but at a young age, he had already possessed incomparably great potential. If you haven't watched other Star Wars movies, I believe that almost all audiences would not think that such a very ideal, capable and kind boy will transform into a super villain in the future. Perhaps only Master Yoda, in the observation of the Jedi Temple, saw the fear and admiration of his character. It's a pity that Kui Gangjin couldn't understand it.
Queen Naboo is very beautiful, like an angel. He is also firm, righteous, caring, and does not succumb to the oppression of evil forces. Under the difficulties of the trade alliance forces, the fall of the planet, and the inability of the Congress to restrict them, they survived desperately, put aside their grievances and formed alliances to test the native races of the planet, and bravely rushed into the palace to arrest the trade governor. Her beauty, benevolence and the spirit gene of daring to fight are inherited in the third generation of Skywalker Leyin among her future sons and daughters Luke and Leia.
R2 D2 is my favorite character. This exquisite robot deserves to be born in the royal family, has the courageous temperament of the queen master, is very witty and capable, and it turns things around at almost critical moments in the movie! It and C3Po, two good friends throughout the existence of all Star Wars movies except Biography. I think that the protagonist of Star Wars must be added with this amazing little man! Adorable universal pass!
On December 18, 2019, the ninth Star Wars "The Rise of Skywalker" was released. I bought the ticket the first time. Seeing the new generation of heroine Rey of the post-traditional trilogy at the last moment of the movie, facing the resurrected Pharaoh, shouting that I am all the Sith, facing the extremely powerful force lightning of Pharaoh, dying In the moment, the voices of all the Jedi spirits in the Star Wars rang in her ears! Stand up, the force is with me! As long as there is a little hope, I will fight to the end. Rey finally stood up and picked up the lightsaber representing the righteous side. It was blessed by the power of all the Jedi masters who passed away such as Yoda, Kuigangjin, Obi-Wan, Windu, Anakin, Luke, Leia, etc. Next, the counterattack finally destroyed the Pa Huang! At that moment, the super-burning BGM sounded. Looking back on the history of the Star Wars that was born more than 40 years ago, I couldn't help feeling a lot of excitement!
Rey of Star Wars 9 finally returned to the planet Tatooine that started in this "Ghost Threat." This is where Anakin Skywalker, Luke's protagonist begins.
The so-called start wherever it ends.
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