Transcript of Star Wars according to three year old

Well... (3) Well... (3) OK (.) The sand people capture robots (.) and drive (.) and (.) sell 'em (2) in garage sale (.) kinda like garage sale except they're selling robots (1) and no-ones gonna buy R2 and the shiny guy (.) the shiny guy always worries. (.) Luke's gonna buy those. (2) And Obi Kenobis kind of a teacher (.) He's (.) teaching Luke (0.5) how to (.) learn how to do his little (1) light up sword he has to try to block the little pokey ball (Pokeball?) He tried to do it with out seeing. Obi Kenobi sometimes move things around sometimes he's disappears. Princess Leia got out of jail and out of the spacesip (.) And they got (1) the big thing that blowed up stuff they (.) we blowed it up together (1) it blowed up princess leias planet. But don't talk back to (.)  Darth Vader he'll get ya! It's an exciting movie...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBM854BTGL0




This text is a transcript of an edited monologue spoken by a young girl into the camera which focuses on presenting the key plot points of Star Wars: A New Hope. The audience for the YouTube video is likely people who have seen Star Wars and enjoy cutesy or short videos. The purpose is to entertain, as the main focus of the video is on showing the authors opinions and observations about a fictional movie. The form is a live-action video recording on YouTube. The fact that the text has been edited may mean that the video was staged, or perhaps irrelevant or inappropriate scenes were cut, or perhaps it was clipped to a 'highlights reel' of sorts.

The speaker in this text is a young toddler, which creates the gimmick that this video relies on: That a young person has strange, cute and funny ideas about movies they have seen. For example, "don't talk back to Darth Vader" is cute because it makes use of children's language as they understand the world, and is somewhat funny, possibly because of the implication that such a young child can not think of many more antagonistic actions than 'talking back' to someone. In fact, a large aspect of the entertainment on display in this text stems from the fact that, to a person well-versed in the English language, this child speaks very childishly, often stumbling over words or using non-standard forms of grammar, as well as novice level phonetic pronunciation (See: "Spacesip). This creates a sense of endearment in the reader to the young child, perhaps the reader is nostalgic about when they or someone else spoke a similar way, or they enjoy to witness the often care-free attitude of a child when using English Language.

This text links to today's other text both in subject (Star Wars) and in form: A young child talking about Star Wars. The child from this text is seemingly older, indicated by a greater grasp of linguistic techniques. One might say that the child from the above text is a toddler, whereas the child in the second text is more of an infant. In this text, which is edited, it does not seem as if there is anyone playing the part of an interviewer or interrogator, whereas in the second text, a voice who I assume to be an older female relative is prompting the child to speak. However, such sections could have been edited out in this text in order to make the child's insights seem more original, or perhaps not. Other similarities arise in that both texts feature non-standard english, as expected from such young children, though the first text merely contains simple non-standard errors, whereas the second text features heavy use of nonsensical language, particularly when imitating the bestial cry of a 'Wookie'.