Challenge: Adapt Star Wars for a Child's Bedtime Story
Posted: 2005-07-07 11:14pm
George Lucas once lamented about how this generation doesn't have fairy tales of its own, and then went on to make Star Wars. It's also been described as a modern-day myth, a lot like how Tolkien did his thing.
However, I've never heard Star Wars told as an actual oral story. That kind of hurts my conception of it as a future folktale told in the burning tire fires of a post-apocalyptic society (though I think that's a scene in Reign of Fire ... which is on tonight on ABC... but I can't see it, pobre).
Write out how you would tell your children/nieces and nephews/young siblings ANH as a bedtime story. And by how I mean your actual dialogue.
However, I've never heard Star Wars told as an actual oral story. That kind of hurts my conception of it as a future folktale told in the burning tire fires of a post-apocalyptic society (though I think that's a scene in Reign of Fire ... which is on tonight on ABC... but I can't see it, pobre).
Write out how you would tell your children/nieces and nephews/young siblings ANH as a bedtime story. And by how I mean your actual dialogue.