star wars Archives - Westin Lee https://www.westinlee.com/tag/star-wars/ Homepage of writer Westin Lee. Fri, 22 Aug 2014 22:33:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 48931760 Hey Darth Vader, Justify Your Plot Twist https://www.westinlee.com/2014/08/22/hey-darth-vader-justify-plot-twist/ Fri, 22 Aug 2014 22:33:17 +0000 http://www.westinlee.com/?p=1197 io9 did a prompt, and I liked my response enough to repost it. It's taken years, but I think I'm finally forming a coherent ability to talk about Empire Strikes Back's great thematic integrity. There's so much zeitgeist around Star Wars that the reasons Empire is super compelling (and the reason the Dark Side is [...]

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]]> 1197 Frozen: the Best Line in the Movie https://www.westinlee.com/2014/02/13/frozen-best-line-movie/ Thu, 13 Feb 2014 02:06:25 +0000 http://www.westinlee.com/?p=938 So, I finally saw Frozen, and I loved it. Disney has had a good run of late. There is a favorite line of mine in Frozen for its ability to explain away magic rules that do not matter in the context of a story. It's a marvelous line that ripples and flares with life the [...]

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