![]() If something is missing from the classic fairy-tale elements in Star Wars, it is a dragon. But to use it as starting point would be cool. I am, of course, not calling for too blunt and unsubtle copying of fairy-tales. In Episode VIII, maybe we could see this witch owning a “Force Mirror” which helps her to track the remaining Jedi. Imagine him being exactly the same way he is, only as an evil “queen”, who in The Force Awakens sends Kylo Ren to hunt down his father in an unlikely take on the huntsman from Snow White. I think the newest trilogy missed something here with Supreme Leader Snoke. I think the figure of an evil witch – be it a hag from the woods, evil fairy godmother, or evil queen from Snow White – is really missing from Star Wars. Something similar has been touched by Star Wars makers in one way or another, but never in full, at least not in the original films. The Evil WitchĪ couple of kids get lost in the woods and find a witch hut. I have occassionally been thinking which elements of classic fairy-stories didn’t appear in Star Wars but might be cool if they did. But this time, I would really like us to think about Star Wars as a fairy-tale, nothing more, and nothing less. Many would of course say the tropes in Star Wars are not just “fairy-tale” tropes, they come (and there are even more) from “mythology” in general. Maybe on this day, to commemorate the first Star Wars film coming to cinemas on 25th May 1977, we could remember this. I believe it is also one of the chief reasons why the tale is still popular after what has been 40 years today. ![]() It is the kind of story we have heard in one way or another when we were children, and it resonates with us simply because of its familiarity. It is a story about a farmer boy who becomes a knight and saves a princess. And now I mean it in the most vulgar sense. I am sure you have noticed that Star Wars is, in fact, a fairy-tale (specifically, the first, original film).
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