Conditionals

Conditionals from the article : http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/mar/18/what-if-star-wars-never-existed 

-How would cinema have been affected had Akira Kurosawa made it as a painter and never made Seven Samurai? What if the 1998 best picture Oscar had gone not to Shakespeare in Love, but Gummo?(2 type)


-And, more particularly, how the next few months might look had the one movie that changed studio films forever not had the chance to do so. In short, where would we be now had there never been a Star Wars?(3/2 type)


-Harrison Ford, for example, would have stuck with his carpentry, turning out 34 years' worth of occasional tables and leaving Blade Runner to have starred, as was long mooted, Dustin Hoffman or Burt Reynolds.(3 type)


-Free of the dead hand of typecasting, meanwhile, Mark Hamill would have frolicked into the sunlit professional uplands and claimed roles in Apocalypse Now and Raging Bull.(3 type)


-In a Star Wars-less history, for instance, sci-fi and fantasy would never have so momentously interbred, the latter remaining the preserve of Krull and The Dark Crystal rather than some of the last two decades' most profitable franchises.(3 type)


-But even that's rivalled for impact by the disappearance from cinema of the man who by his own account would have stayed a truck driver without having seen Lucas's opus: James Cameron.(3 type)


- Because there is a school of thought that goes thus: had all that swords-and-sorcery-in-space not corrupted the average filmgoer, the golden second age of Hollywood that was the pre-Star Wars 1970s would have just kept on trucking, with Terrence Malick, Hal Ashby and Robert Altman dominating the screen into the 80s.(3 type)


- Without Star Wars, we wouldn't have all the faux-religiosity and Yoda impressions, but George Lucas wasn't the first mogul to milk a cash cow.(3/2 type)


-And the terrifying thing here is that, even without all the merchandising and fanboys, I wonder if the whole creaking edifice of cinema might not have come crashing down sometime between 1977 and now.(3 type)


-Indeed, it seems to me that the original Star Wars fans and their Comic-Con descendants would, without Lucas, have never come to the movies at all, drawn instead to a full-time relationship with comics and games – and that film, with all the wily survival skills of a survivor from the fag-end of the 19th century, evolved in order to take their money.(3 type)


-Without which, let's face it, the real alternate history may have been a sea of boarded up cinemas, and in the final analysis even less chance of catching a good movie than you'll have this summer.(3 type)