It is sometimes surprising to me that so many movies are made from novels. Well it is also understandable because we have so many great novels which we hope to see in visual scenary and actors playing the characters. Sometimes (maybe always) movies are not made from its true original. Original stories are long and beyond visual creation. So movies are different, and it's OK because movies are movies. It's not realistic to sit down in the theatre to see the 20-hours long true verion of the original, even if the film is separated into 10 episodes.
Movies are movies. It has different style of creation from novels.
So why novels are so long?
Because we expect them to explain everything, every details behind the story.
Then what if novels don't explain everything and rely on the reader's imagination?
It is possible, and it is poetry, I think.
Starwars is unique. It started with a story (director Mr George Lucas told that he wrote a myth) but it was created to become a movie full of visual images which was so well-made. Its story is unique, too. It's not our planet, it's not even our future,
but it's a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.... !!
The world of a galaxy far, far away is not explained fully in the 6 episodes (well, actually, 6 episodes are not so short ) and people can freely imagine to fill in the gap of the untold, unexpressed part of the story. It's like a epic, a great poetry so I think it's still mysterious and wonderful.
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