Although one of the greatest American films of all time, the imaginatively-chilling, strange, experimental, sophisticated work was idiosyncratic, film noirish, avant garde and expressionistically dreamy, but it was both ignored and misunderstood at the time of its release.Eventually, the lightsaber snapped and broke into two pieces, released energy from the explosion, and knocked the two backwards - Ren lay unconscious.The film""s screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett was adapted from Edward Streeter""s 1949 novel." Realizing that she will be quickly conquered, Cleopatra is attended to by her loyal handmaidens - she is dressed in black with a low-cut decolletage.