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entei "Stc a fa too tain me ir Wars" ntasy tri uter limi lit VOrl ' xii?pl IlwIr^BPP* 1 - *1 Jtw 'i1 By CHUCK Entertainnw From thp have provide including th< swashbuckle ? encouraj | uniquely diff the past or fi ' evil, and the rescue eithei from an une These ger ? A. ^ should strive "W" JE them now, { B ^ death, loyalt self-sacrifice an everlastii THE SPA( most sparse $ "V 'Tig: mk i'II M ' !| i 9 CROMER nt Editor early days of filmmaking, filrr ?d viewers with an escape from smselves. These genres ? the ' r, samurai, space taniasy and w ?e us to romanticize envir erent from our own, perhaps cen lture, where good always trium| hero always arrives in the nick o a troubled society or damsel in nviable fate. ires usually reassert values i (to obtain because so few people >uch as honor, bravery in the y and compassion for others, fri ; for the salvation of others and ig, supreme being. :E Fantasy genre is one of the ol sly used of the escapist gem because of the decline reason or another, it comeback, possibly bea 1 genres vehicle to create fanta reality, realities or to reaffirm western, The format of the sp ar films among escapist genr< onments protagonists to become turies in other worlds that hav phs over meddlings of humans be f time to remains for filmmak* /4ir?4 n t uiaucaa numanoias on omer pu made an increasingly nankind mess of our own earth, w possess or comic strip or TV s facc of worlds." endship, In the 1930s and 40s wt faith in Rogers to relieve us of tli and war. "Forbidden PI help us overlook the p< Idest but "Star Trek" in the 60s es. Yet c ? ?O" ^ of the other genres for one appears to be making a ause our society still needs a sies to escape life's harsh basic human values. >ace fantasy film is unique es because it allows its ! involved in the affairs of e not been graced by the fore. As one critic wrote, "It ;rs to restore dreams of anets, other moons. Having oppressive and unwizardly e find much relief in any film erial that conjures up other ; had Flash Gordon and Buck le anxieties of the Depression anet" type films in the 50s to >tential of nuclear holacost; upholding the ideologies of ee STAK WARS, page 10