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Caravan Of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984)
Being a movie nerd podcast where movie nerds talk about movie nerd stuff, it was probably inevitable for Reel Deep Dive to do an episode about the Star Wars saga at some point. On the other hand, it's a bit less expected for this program to go with a minor, disposable TV movie centering on the cosmic teddy bears for its maiden outing in this particular franchise.
Ryan is joined on this episode by Peter Cronan, host of the Fearless Films Podcast. They go over the plot of Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure. They also delve into the film's production history, its thematic motifs, its episodic story structure, its penchant for spoon-feeding every plot point to a presumed audience of small children, and the movie's wider impact on Star Wars in general. However, since there isn't actually all that much substance to Caravan of Courage, they also talk about the conception of Ewoks as characters, the Ewoks' roots in silent film comedy and 1930's animation, and whether or not their presence "ruined" Return of the Jedi (1983).
There's also a big ol' tangent about the career of Burl Ives, the folksinger and character actor who serves as the omniscient narrator of this movie.
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Being a movie nerd podcast where movie nerds talk about movie nerd stuff, it was probably inevitable for Reel Deep Dive to do an episode about the Star Wars saga at some point. On the other hand, it's a bit less expected for this program to go with a minor, disposable TV movie centering on the cosmic teddy bears for its maiden outing in this particular franchise.
Ryan is joined on this episode by Peter Cronan, host of the Fearless Films Podcast. They go over the plot of Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure. They also delve into the film's production history, its thematic motifs, its episodic story structure, its penchant for spoon-feeding every plot point to a presumed audience of small children, and the movie's wider impact on Star Wars in general. However, since there isn't actually all that much substance to Caravan of Courage, they also talk about the conception of Ewoks as characters, the Ewoks' roots in silent film comedy and 1930's animation, and whether or not their presence "ruined" Return of the Jedi (1983).
There's also a big ol' tangent about the career of Burl Ives, the folksinger and character actor who serves as the omniscient narrator of this movie.