Jim Jarmusch reveals why he’ll never watch Star Wars
nme.comStar Wars movies.The director said in a new interview that he takes issue with “mass things being shoved on me” and knowing “so much about them and the characters” without ever actually having watched them.He told The Believer: “I have particular things I will never see.
I will never see any ‘Star Wars’ films, because I resent that I know so much about them and the characters.“Why is all that in my head when I’ve never actually seen one, you know?
Why do I know about R2-D2 and Darth Vader and all these things when I’ve never even seen any ‘Star Wars’ film?”He continued: “I’ve never seen Gone With The Wind and I never will, just because I feel like it’s forced on me and it’s some kind of corny thing.”The Dead Don’t Die filmmaker added that he’s “not hierarchical” but he is less drawn to big, commercial works.“But because I really, deeply love the craft of filmmaking, I, of course, like masterful filmmakers’ work.
But I watch all kinds of stuff,” he said. “On a plane recently I watched Cruella. I love the Naked Gun movies because they’re so stupid.
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