Myths and legends are made from might-not-have-beens; from the feats and marvels that turn likely and lowly outcomes into unlikely, transcendent ones. Theseus might not have defeated the Minotaur. Nelson might not have won at Trafalgar. And Mr Lucas might never have made the 1977 space fantasy, which redefined box-office success and has regularly polled as the world’s best-loved film. Thirty-five years ago Alan Ladd Jr, the president of 20th Century Fox who greenlit Star Wars after its rejection by nearly every other Hollywood studio, told this writer: “The script came to me at a time when science fiction was deadly at the cinema. No one made those films. I looked at it and said, well, it’s not only science fiction. It’s also a western. It’s a pirate film. It’s many of the things I enjoyed when I was a kid. So why shouldn’t it work today?
神话和传奇来自“原本也许不会如此式的假想,来自将司空见惯的寻常小事转化为难得一见的超然成就的惊人绝技。忒修斯(Theseus)也许并未打败半人半牛怪兽弥诺陶洛斯(Minotaur)。纳尔逊(Nelson)可能无法赢得特拉法加之战。卢卡斯或许也没能制作出1977年上映的太空幻想片《星球大战》,这部影片刷新了票房纪录并频繁被票选为全球最受欢迎的电影。二十世纪福克斯(20th Century Fox)的总裁小艾伦·拉德(Alan Ladd Jr)给《星球大战》的电影剧本开了绿灯,此前这部影片遭到了几乎所有其他好莱坞制片厂的拒绝。拉德在35年前对剧本作者表示:“当我收到剧本时,科幻电影在院线已经濒临绝迹。没有人制作这类电影。我读完剧本之后感到,这不仅是一部科幻片,还是一部西部片和海盗片,融合了当我还是一个孩子时喜爱的多种元素。因此当今的观众又怎会不喜欢《星球大战》呢?
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