Word: magic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fifty laps into the race, Gordon wrecks his car and finishes 38th. It's his fourth washout in a month, and he begins to wonder, for the first time in his career, if the magic is gone. Earnhardt, running on steak and potatoes, wins the race with Martin on his tail, a nickel short with that lousy can of tuna he had for lunch...
...race day, Gordon begins strong and gets stronger, hypnotizing everyone else into a trance. The magic is back, the slump is done, and he leaves everyone in the dust. It's his third win this year...
...movies again as they did in the pre-Lucas days. The race would be not to make the most stimulating or challenging movie but the most scintillating one--the movie with the biggest effects, the most explosions, the greatest body count--all in the hope that this time, the magic that sold Star Wars would be found again...
Lucas started a quest in Hollywood for the magic of childhood. Sometimes that quest was successful. Without Luke Skywalker and Hans Solo, there would be no Indiana Jones. Sometimes it was not. Without stormtroopers there would have been no Starship Troopers. But successful or not, that mad attempt to find the stuff of childhood and put it in a bottle defined much of the movie scene for the past 20 years...
...Fans are essentially interested in Lucas' imaginary universe, but because the magic of that universe depends on the richness of Lucas' imagination, Lucas has to do more than just make up more "stuff." Unfortunately, the point of a prequel is to explain a story already told; it relies on the inertia of another story. It is simply more "stuff." It does not truly enlarge the Star Wars universe...