baronaharon
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@baronaharon
i am a Jew. Hunter College & NYU Law grad. Wannabe screenwriter. Blogger at https://t.co/hmG07LEzQJ Tweets limited to Star Wars, Baseball, and the things I love
“Honesty, honor, humility, character. Integrity, truth, compassion. Humanity, thoughtfulness, morality, true strength. Don’t let anybody tell you these things don’t matter anymore. They do.” Springsteen in D.C. last night — and the reaction.
This is 100% why I love The Last Jedi. At the time it came out I was 41 years old. Had been going through some of the hardest years of my life. And Rian Johnson's version of Luke Skywalker spoke to what I was experiencing. The Hero's Journey isn't just a coming of age mythological framework. It continues on into later phases of the human experience. The Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi speaks to that.
The most consequential decision GL made about #StarWars was elevating the story from just action/adventure into a generational family space opera. That gave the story endurance beyond a summer blockbuster. RJ intentionally undid that, I’ll never understand why
Critical support to Rian Johnson for trying to rid us of inheritance based Jedi Dynasties
My brother-in-law and I were discussing the strange NYC phenomena in which the Giants and Yankees seem clearly more overall popular on average, but a Knicks playoff run ignites the city like nothing else.
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
