It's amazing to look at this intelligent and provocative film, and then realize that what followed was American Graffiti, and three plus decades of juvenilia known as Star Wars (aka Film Franchise Ripping Off Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series Without Any Remuneration).
Here is a clip:
As I wrote in my review:
'In the commentary, Lucas vows that now that he has finally done with the Star Wars films, he is set to return to avant-garde filmmaking of this sort, and his heroes from the French New Wave. Let’s hope so, because after three decades of dumbing down the art of film with his simplistic and pallid Joseph Campbellian rot, the man owes literate filmgoers, and owes us big time for he became, wittingly or not, the very thing that his great first film excoriates, and, if the commentary is to be trusted, he still does not get it. Let’s toss him a softball and pray for the future.'
Still holds true, yessireebob!
