![]() ![]() That makes Abrams just the person to plug the newest ready-made pre-fab blocks of quasi-Biblical legend into the template left by Lucas, and Abrams does so with a vigorously responsible enthusiasm joined with a palpable wonder at his contact with the venerated text. A movie fanatic, Spielberg is himself a master of the graft-especially grafting the mythic memory of the cinema onto a child-like sensibility formed by television.Ībrams stands at an extra remove from the source-one step down from Spielberg’s worship of a world of images to the modern worship of a world of stories. ![]() That’s not an inherently bad thing-if it’s done by Steven Spielberg. Abrams has long been channelling the spirit of Steven Spielberg, and here he splices the Spielbergian gene into George Lucas’s mythology. For better and worse, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is a work of directorial authorship. ![]()
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