This evening I went by myself to see Solo<\/i>. All of my fellow Star Wars<\/i> fanatics had already seen it, and the name itself suggested that a solitary experience might be apropos.<\/p>\n
I found it to be an excellent action adventure film, and I liked the way it smoothly filled in the gaps in Han Solo’s history. Weirdly, though, he was definitely not the character that Harrison Ford played more than four decades ago.<\/p>\n
This guy is simply too nice. Han Solo is one of modern pop culture’s best exemplars of that classic literary figure, the lovable rogue.<\/p>\n
He is our era’s equivalent of Lord Byron, who was, as Lady Caroline Lamb famously quipped, “Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know.”<\/p>\n
Back when Star Wars<\/i> first came out, everybody fell in love with Han Solo precisely for that wild streak. For all his charm, there’s something dangerous about him, and that’s his real super power.<\/p>\n
Kind of like Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca<\/i>, come to think of it. Which is why I was vaguely disappointed when the movie ended and our hero never actually said the line I was secretly hoping to hear: “Chewie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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