Pale Fire: A Magazine in 12 Projects Group Three | Page 77

movie, interviewing for the
Explanation :
role. It is important to under-
This script gives a fictional ac-
stand that, in my story, Nabo-
count of how the film Star
kov is not the author of Pale
Wars Episode VII: The Force
Fire. Rather, Nabokov is a big
Awakens came to be. The
movie executive working for
Force Awakens very brazenly
Disney, and is a major influ-
takes its plot, emotional beats,
ence on how the film is made.
and characters from the origi-
Thus, we see the relationship
nal Star Wars film. It’s a very
controversial
film
between him, who wants The
amongst
Force
Star Wars fans, because while
‘plagiarized’
some feel that the film was
be
version of
a
the
Abrams, who is arguing that it
ie, others (myself included)
should not be so. Through this
feel that it was more an issue
argument, I explored what
of blatant copycatting, and in
Nabokov might believe about
that sense it reminded me of
relationship
to
original Star Wars, and JJ
‘inspired’ by the original mov-
the
Awakens
the idea of reusing and recy-
between
cling things in stories.
Shakespeare and Timon of
Athens.
The main point that I tried to
make with this piece was that
The script I wrote details JJ
Nabokov, by copying Shake-
Abrams, the director of the
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