Redux - Solo in Casablanca

Looking back at Solo: A Star Wars Story because someone reminded me of it. 

A post on Bluesky said in part

"Please give me control of the Star Wars franchise. My concept is to just remake old war and samurai movies, but Star Wars. The Dirty Dozen but Star Wars. The Great Escape but Star Wars. Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman but Star Wars."

https://bsky.app/profile/revan.social/post/3lggkreqghs2m

I had a couple of ideas 

https://bsky.app/profile/generationalize.bsky.social/post/3lggylz3tas2e

https://bsky.app/profile/generationalize.bsky.social/post/3lggz33hats2e

But in any case I had previously proposed that Solo should have been "Casablanca but Star Wars," and this episode goes into detail on that. 

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What the generational model might have to say about the commercial success of Solo: A Star Wars Story, and the extent to which it is (or should have been) a remake of Casablanca.

The IMDB pages for Solo

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3778644/

Star Wars (since retitled A New Hope)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/

And Casablanca

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/

Another analysis of why Solo should have emulated Casablanca - no impact on my analysis, incidentally, as I didn't read it until after recording was complete. But it ends up in much the same place and for similar reasons.

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/06/the-key-to-the-young-han-solo-movie-casablanca-of-course/

Not-too-subtle references to Han-Shot-First throughout what I'm looking at.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_shot_first

Here’s my original blog post that summarizes my Generational Stories.

http://stories.generationalize.com/2015/12/four-stories.html

And how Han is a Nomad even at the end:

http://stories.generationalize.com/2016/01/the-force-awakens-han.html

You can find me on Bluesky as @generationalize and blogging at http://stories.generationalize.com