Jawas Capture Threepio (3)
Last Updated (Wednesday, 11 August 2010 21:52) Written by Administrator Monday, 09 August 2010 00:00
"Yippiee!"
ZAP!
Today's page - finally here - is a goody! Another of those "what if George had taken this approach? - thank goodness he didn't." sort of affairs. But - but! - we get to see what actually happened to poor whinging pain-in-the-arse Threepio after he hailed the sandcrawler. A scene cruelly kept from us by George. Oh right, so you think George was trying to raise the tension and suspense? I suppose you think George knew more about film-making than me when I was nine? - or my 4 year old son Johnny? Well at least I understood IRONY! "YIPPEE!"
Art Notes
Dammit! There I was sticking-in photos again. Now I'll never know what the drawing was like.
Film Theory
Yep, when I sit watching Star Wars with my little fella, we arrive at the scene where Threepio and Artoo are reunited in the sandcrawler. Sorry - should have yelled "SPOILER ALERT!" Not many people have seen the film yet...
So there they are reunited. Johnny's got to see how artoo ended up in there - great. What's not great, and very difficult to explain to a 4 year old is the answer to this question "But how did C-3P0 end up there? We didn't get to see it!" (Frustration - wailing - tears).
"Well Johnny, remember when he waved to the shining thing?"
"Yes..?"
"Well - just after that - he got captured by the Jawas. See? Simple."
"But why didn't we see it happen?"
"Because the man who made this film wanted to make the story more interesting for us by NOT showing it..."
"But that's not more interesting. It's just annoying."
"But when we're watching artoo in the next bit after that we're wondering 'gosh, what happened to Threepio? Who was it in the distance?'. And then, when they meet again in the sandcrawler we realise 'Oh... THAT'S what happened to Threepio. The same thing that happened to Artoo..."
"What happened to Artee Dootee?"
"You know, he got zapped and fell over like a dust-bin and got sucked-up like in a vacuum cleaner..."
"But why didn't we see what happened to Threepio?!?!"
"Look Johnny - there's another robot that looks like a bin! (diversionary tactic)"
On Wednesday: ???.
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