Re: He is Risen

Gene Ward Smith wrote:
> Gene Ward Smith <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>     They did EVERYTHING for the other aspects of SF. Note that 
>>>Spielberg's SF films came AFTER Star Wars.
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>>They did not. Close Encounters and Star Wars were both big summer films 
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> in 
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>>1977.

	I'll give you that. CE3K, though, is like 2001; for those who like 
it, a lovely film; for those that don't, a snoozer. And not 
influential in any significant sense.

> And Spielberg went on to release film after film of science 
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> fiction, 
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>>making him overall much more im****tant than Lucas for the genre as a 
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> whole, 
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>>not just space opera.

	No.

	Star Wars' influence was what made most of Spielberg's following 
successes (and perhaps not-so-successes) possible.

	
> I think when you compare that to George Lucas' oeuvre, it's clear
Spielberg 
> has been more im****tant.

	Nope.




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