Lets look beyond the obvious names to take over directing duties onStar Wars: Episode IX.
Bringing up his name has selfish motivation.
Does he have a deep and abiding affection forStar Wars?
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Johnson also started his career with smaller scale, intimate films.
His 2005 high-school noirBrickwould make a great double feature with Gordons teen defiance storyThe Chocolate War.
(I should know,I booked such a pairing for the American Cinematheque a few years ago.)
Gordon is not just a haunting visualist, but he has an incisive sense of human nature.
There is nothing else like it.
Star Warshas these things, too.
There is a lot about this galaxy that is ridiculous, and yet the humanity radiates through.
Ive always felt the same about Gordons work.
The good and the bad can drift across that line, finding redemption or condemnation.
Its Christmastime, and the war is drawing to a close.
One night, they hear singing: O Tannenbaum.
A battle ensues but this one is fought with snowballs.
The German soldiers at the edge of the property would like to surrender.
They dont want to fight or die for Hitler.
But if they give up, their families back home may pay the price.
A plan is set to stage a battle.
Those who fought on the side of darkness, trying to return to the light …
I think of Vader, reaching out to his son Luke.
You were right about me … Tell your sister, you were right.
