Fisher, who has bipolar disorder, became a cultural icon when she played Princess Leia in the first “Star Wars” in 1977. “They’d stopped traffic! You don’t want to be that guy”. No, I wouldn’t say I was really anything like him in real life.
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University of Calgary film professor Murray Leeder noted that the worlds Star Wars has built are so important to some people that they identify themselves as Jedi, the movie’s lightsaber-wielding intergalactic knights. But it’s just fun to kind of separate yourself and become somebody else for a few minutes in the day.
Teacher Stephen, 25, said: “I’ve got work tomorrow but it’s totally worth it, staying up this late”.
The male-centric universe of the original “Star Wars” gives way to a woman warrior and a female version of Yoda in the much-ballyhooed “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” that will inevitably take the planet – this one – by storm as it opens this week. Three? Five? That’s when you’ll know you’ve truly made it. And judging by the sheer amount of Star Wars porn parodies out there, George Lucas can finally rest assured that he’s made an impact.
So I’m not going to.
I fully expected to sit in the cinema thoroughly bored while the events played out on screen. “I can’t wait for the new one now – there has to be one after that!” he said. In case you can’t contain your anticipation, spoilers for The Force Awakens can be found on /r/TFAspoilertalk and /r/starwarsleaks.
Sharing the experience of seeing the newest addition to the franchise is something Crooks is looking forward to doing with her own children.
As one of the military leaders of The First Order, an organisation inspired by the Galactic Empire, “General Hux isn’t a particularly nice fella”, said the 32-year-old.
Porn retailer GameLink said sales of “Star Wars XXX” – a 2012 parody flick that features the classic characters making Wookiee – have surged 500% in the last two weeks.
Liam Rogers added: “I thought it was good, as good as I was expecting”.
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The seventh episode of Star Wars – “The Force Awakens” – will certainly appeal to audiences who have never seen, but only heard or watched bits and pieces of, the previous space movie series on TV or on video-sharing sites such as YouTube.
