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...desire to cut out before AIDS takes its toll. Posing as an expert on life, he spouts poetry with all sorts of pretentious and clumsy lines like "they could not hear his cries of sorrow." Evidently Silver intended a great deal with Todd's character, but his script trail him. some acceptable way of saying such silly things without cooing. Out of the struggle emerge two voices for Todd. One is angsty and rebellious, the other lilting and sentimental...
...angrily pitched a remote control across the room during yet another viewing of the trilogy when it didn't pause or rewind to the piece of information I needed. No longer. Now, thanks to some good person at National Public Radio and the Ballantine publishing group, the radio script is mine to peruse in the peaceful sanctum of my own room, and in some ways it's even better. It has truly made my Millenium...
Devotees of the "Star Wars" novels, which have continued the saga for ages, know that even if George Lucas isn't directly involved, he makes sure "Star Wars" spinoffs contain the quality thinking we expect The radio script is no exception...
Because the script has so much room for explanation, it goes deep into the story in ways the movie couldn't. Just how did Leia and the rebels get those plans for the Death Star? The radio script takes you to their schemes. If it wasn't powerful enough to watch Alec Guiness reel in pain on the Falcon when he said. "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror," you can experience that disturbance by forming an attachment of your own to the citizens of Alderaan...
...level, it's a pity the radio scripts pad the dialogue so much. The movie was good, in fact, it was the best movie ever!!! All the extra banter tends to drag things down. The parts of the script based in Tatooine and Alderaan are nifty because we have little or nothing to compare them to. The lengthening of the ride on the Milennium Falcon is gratuitous because we know exactly how it should sound. Obi Wan wouldn't have expounded at such length on the nature of Han's character, and the new condition of the ship. Ben Kenobi...