Can you fix this sentence? "When the movie Star Wars premiered in 1977, it was both surprising and a revolution in its special effects."

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"When the movie Star Wars premiered in 1977, its special effects were both surprising and a revolution.

Sra
"When the movie Star Wars premiered in 1977, it was both surprising and a revolution in its special effects."

I've underlined the part that needs fixing. Sra's revision just needs one little tweak -- you need to find an adjective form of "revolution" to go with the adjective "surprising" -- in other words, you need to adjectives, not an adjective and a noun, in order to make this sentence have parallel construction.
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