Samuel Delany reviews the first Star Wars movie, 1977, in Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy.
“In the film world at present, the token woman, token black, or what-have-you, is clearly propaganda, and even the people who are supposed to like that particular piece of it smile their smiles with rather more tightly pursed lips than is comfortable. In a science-fiction film, however, the variety of human types should be as fascinating and luminous in itself as the variety of color in the set designer’s paint box. Not to make use of that variety, in all possible combinations, seems an imaginative failure of at least the same order as not coming up with as interesting sets as possible.”
We’re getting there, not quickly enough, but progress is happening.
Sorry, I know my point is at best orthogonal to the point of this post, but I’m just baffled that Samuel Delaney–SAMUEL DELANEY–wrote a contemporary four-page essay-review-thinkpiece about Star Wars, and his central thesis was about how the movie portrays the future.
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