Quote by Ursula K. LeGuin

What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film? With the whole universe and all the future to play in, Lucas took his marvelous toys and crawled under the fringed cloth on the parlor table, back into a nice safe hide hole, along with Flash Gordon and the Cowardly Lion and Luke Skywalker and the Flying Aces and the Hitler Jugend. If there's a message there, I don't think I want to hear it.

What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film?

Summary

In this quote, the speaker questions the presence of nostalgia in a science-fiction film, particularly referring to George Lucas' Star Wars franchise. They criticize Lucas for taking creative and imaginative possibilities of the future and instead retreating to safer, familiar territory by incorporating references and motifs from older stories and characters, such as Flash Gordon and the Cowardly Lion. The speaker suggests that this nostalgic approach is unappealing and doubts that any meaningful message can be derived from it.

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Science Fiction

By Ursula K. LeGuin

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