A long time
ago, in a theater far, far away Star Wars landed on the
screen, within weeks the concept of sci-fi geek changed.
Let's take a step back in time this movie
changed everything, it became cool to be a sci-fi dork.
What did dorks have before Star Wars?
Charlton Heston, and the depressing view of
the planet : "Planet of the Apes": The world had been
nuked or "Beneath the Planet of the Apes": The world was nuked
again.
"Omega Man": everyone wiped out by a virus,
except for pasty zombie army led by a former TV anchorman.
In these old movies the hero always died at
the end.
Then came Star Wars, it
was everything the culture had denied geeks.
It had good guys and bad
guys, and lots
of lasers. It had the best special effects
ever seen on the screen, from the complex and kinetic spacecraft
battles to Princess Leia's motionless earmuff hairstyle.
Villains? we had one of
the best villains ever created, Darth Vader.
And what an ending, Han
Solo conquers his selfishness and redeems himself.
Luke Skywalker uses the
Force to blow up Peter Cushing and his Death Star.
Star Wars saved science fiction. You could
even say that Star Wars saved Star Trek, this serial was not
having its best moment, but fans soon returned and the first
Star Trek film was made.
