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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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Movie - Enemy Mine


Movie- Enemy mine

Score : 10/10 

Year : 1985
Cinematography: Tony Imi
Music:  Maurice Jarre 
Country: USA. West Germany  
Language: English. 
Duration:  1h48 
Writers: Edward Khmara (Screenplay) ; Barry Longyear (Story)


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Enemy Mine - In the media

A poignant, powerful and dark movie : a human and an alien, stranded on a dangerous planet… from foes, they become friends.
The human will have a quest : to preserve a life, facing many dangers…

A strong role for Dennis Quaid, but even more so for Louis Gosset Jr as a very touching alien who should have won an award for his interpretation.
Beautifully directed by Wolfgang Petersen in 1985, this movie offers alien landscapes and creatures, an interesting and moving plot, with relatively innovative elements, making Enemy Mine a rather unique movie experience.
Costumes and dialogues are well made and the few special effects are rendered correctly.
Maurice Jarre doesn’t miss his composition, for once, giving us a beautiful music.
I simply loved Enemy Mine. Score 10/10. 



Enemy Mine...influence

The unas, an alien race in Stargate SG1 is directly inspired from this movie. appearing in 5 episodes, the last of which is titled ''enemy mine'', thus not hidding this link.

Several Star Trek the next generation (= TNG) and Enterprise use similar ideas ; thus Paul Winfield in ''Darmok'' resembles Louis Gosst JR. He and Patrick Stewart are totally alien to one another and learn to cooperate in the face of adversity, but in a different manner than the one told in Enemy Mine.

We see this again in TNG ''the enemy'', but the alien, a Romulan, doesn't look at all akin to the reptilien appaerance of both ''Darmok'' and ''Enemy Mine'', but the stroy revolves once more around cooperation in the face of adversity, in spite of an initial animosity. 




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