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   From: anybody@anywhere-anytime.com   
      
   In article <5r8453t4e1im2bvv5hc55v14huopo52utl@4ax.com>, Howard Brazee   
    wrote:   
      
   > On Mon, 21 May 2007 15:38:52 -0400, Bill Steele    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > >I was hooked as soon as the "crawl" came on. It was exactly the way a   
   > >synopsis was done at the beginning of many Universal serials, and was   
   > >Lucas' message to old-timers like me that I was going to have a great   
   > >time.   
   >   
   > Especially when the crawl told us it was from our past.   
      
   That's debateable.   
      
   Does the opening crawl mean the story takes place "a long time ago" and   
   "far far away" from us.   
      
   OR does it take place "a long time ago" and "far, far away" from the   
   narrator of the story (some view C-3PO as the narrator, but that's   
   mostly a misunderstanding by him telling the story to the Ewoks) - the   
   unknown Whills mentioned in the novelisation.   
      
   OR is it simply an opening phrase just like any fairytale's "A long   
   time ago" even though we know the story never actually happened at all.   
      
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