“Not so much costumes as a bit of plumbing and general automobile engineering”

Posted on May 15, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

So said John Mollo in his acceptance speech at the Oscars after winning the Academy Award for Costume Design in 1978 for his work on Star Wars.

What reminded me of this marvelous quote was a vehicle I walked past in the parking garage at work. Doesn’t its aggressive-looking front end remind you just a little of a stormtrooper’s helmet in the Star Wars movies?

And speaking of Star Wars stormtroopers, here is one of my all-time fave film moments.

Don’t you wish all exchanges with law enforcement and similar authorities could be managed so smoothly? 🙂

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About Katherine Wikoff

I am a college professor (PhD in English, concentration rhetoric) at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where I teach film and media studies, political science, digital society, digital storytelling, writing for digital media, and communication. While fragments of my teaching and scholarship interests may quite naturally meander over to my blog, this space is intended to function as a creative outlet, not as part of my professional practice. Opinions are my own, etc.
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