There’s no avoiding it, I’m afraid; it’s coming around again. No, not Christmas — Star Wars. The neverending movie franchise is at last coming to an end, or rather its original ennealogy is (it opens Dec. 19, as anyone who actually cares already knows). Though Mel Brooks made an entire movie to spoof the first installment, it didn’t do the job at rendering it ridiculous as well as one minute of a Bill Murray skit, in which his lounge singer Nick gave John Williams’ movie theme the lyrics it needed. Before Murray debuts his character’s most-quoted “hit,” he delivers about five minutes of obnoxious awkwardness — decades before Larry David and Ricky Gervais fashioned entire careers out of that.
One of the stars of the trilogy that ends with this film is Oscar Isaac, who was a musician before he took up acting. Isaac, who gave life to the Coen brothers’ Llewyn Davis, updated those lyrics for the new set of films in a GQ interview in 2015.
