A New Hope Movie Analysis

The book Religion and Film compares the beginning of every Star Wars film to Genesis 1:1 in the Christian bible, in that the reader/viewer is transported immediately into the realm of myth. “A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” prefaces the films, which has the same effect as “In the beginning, …”, according to Plate (28). The vague time and

"Star Wars" was arguably the first in a new breed of high concept, high budget sci-fi action films. It was directed by George Lucas and originally released in only a few cinemas in 1977. However, the buzz around the film grew, and it is now one of the highest grossing films of all time, and along with its sequels, prequels and re-mastered re-releases, has a large cult following. I feel this is because of Lucas` ability to engage the audience through careful use of sound and camera technique;

Throughout 13, 1977, 21, Jonathan Lethem explains how he was thirteen years old and watched Star Wars twenty one times in the summer of 1977. He goes into detail about each time and explains how he saw things differently or how his experience of the movie had changed. Later in the story, Jonathan states that his parents got a divorce and his mom has health issues. The topic of the story transforms at this time and puts more focus on how he used Star Wars as a distraction from his real life.

Lucas’ movie Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, was not only the biggest sensation of its time,”...winning seven Academy Awards…” (Kiminski 10) , but also a substantial influence on the toy world. Lucas stated in his interview, “Ten year old boys will

With the record setting release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens the sci-fi franchise is the center of attention. No small talk begins without saying, Have you seen the new Star Wars?

Star Wars was not the original Blockuster, Episode IV came out two years late to get that title, that title goes to Jaws. Jaws, much like Star Wars, caused the shift from the film industries typical, personal filmmaking, to a much faster paced, big budget movies, aimed towards younger audiences (10). Before Star Wars came out

Star Wars was first released in May 1977. It is a series of movies based on an epic space adventure and was created by George Lucas. The franchise depicts a galaxy described as "far, far away" in the distant past, and portrays two important characterization like the Jedi as a representation of good, in conflict with the Sith, their evil counterpart. The overall box office produced over 4.38 billion dollars, making Star Wars one of the fifth highest grossing films of all time. Many believe the film would not have reached its highest without the prominently themed music created by John Williams. The renowned themes 'the force' and 'imperial march' are one of Williams most widely known music scores and motion pictures of all history. John Williams was able to vividly depict the characters conflict between good and evil through the use of musical elements like timbre, pitch and duration to create the individual characters.

While observing the set Lucas says that the set is so much better than his set and the movie will make much more money than Star Wars to Lucas’s dismay. Lucas also said “Oh my God, your movie is better than Star Wars! This is gonna be the biggest hit of all time. I can’t believe this set” Lucas said he would trade some earnings with Spielberg. They would each trade 2.5 percent of their movies earnings to each other. Then Spielberg agreed to the bet but actually Star Wars made $775 million at the box office and close encounters only making $304 million. Though Lucas did not lose much money since after the movie he was still a billionaire so there was not a giant hole in his wallet after the bet which surprised Lucas. He was very surprised that Star Wars got almost double the earning of close encounters and now had so much money.

The force was definitely with everyone because the first installation for the new trilogy hauled in a hefty $517 Million, making it the biggest North American debut of all time according to a studio estimates. Now I think, to say that the force was strong on this one is an understatement.

Filmmaker George Lucas's blockbuster film Star Wars changed the way movies are made. The quirky action-adventure film would be just one of the writer/director/producer's four entries on the list of the highest-grossing films of all time. Since his first attempts as a film-school student, Lucas challenged the way films were shot, edited, and mixed. His experiments in special effects

George Lucas founder of Lucasfilm Ltd. (1971), director, writer, producer known for his creativity, due to the film Star wars and TV series Indiana Jones. “ A Filmmaker, visionary and entrepreneur, George Lucas has not only changed the way we experience film and filmmaking but also revolutionized film industry practices and standards.” “ George Lucas, on an economic, aesthetic and cultural level, has contributed more than any other individual to the shaping of the New Hollywood and is, by far, one of the most important figures in film history.”(McCarthy 1) George was born George Walton Lucas Jr. to his parents Dorothy Ellinore Lucas and George Walton Lucas on May 14,1944 in Modesto, California. George Lucas also had three siblings Ann,

The Star Wars franchise has enlightened us about visions of the possible future; from flying cities to powerful weapons that can destroy entire planets. The mystical Jedi, the guardians of the Galactic Republic and users of the light side, fighting the Sith, evil warriors of cunning and treachery who use the dark side, both of whom wield the Force, an interconnecting of all living things, set up the back-story to this space epic. However, the one character that has been given the most depth is, the one that the movie series chooses to focus on: Darth Vader.

It was given the challenge of competing with Star Wars which was released on May 25th, 1977 and immediately became a box office success winning six out of ten Oscar nominations, and becoming the then highest grossing film of all time. (Wikipedia 1977) Star Wars was written and directed by George Lucas, released by Lucas Films and was followed by five other Star Wars trilogy films. Also at the same time “Roots” began its phenomenally successful run on ABC’s television network. (Wikipedia 1977) Speaking of television debuts the famous Tonight Show with Jay Leno debut in 1977 as well.

There are few people in the world who have not hear of Star Wars. The daring tale of Luke Skywalker’s journey to defeat the evil Empire led by Darth Vader and restore peace to the galaxy is so well-known that people who have never seen the movies know the basic plot line or at least know the phrase said multiple times, “May the Force be with you.” Star Wars immediately changed the world because of

Today people still have the taste for star wars like people did in the 70s. I think that because the people who were kids when star wars came out now have kids so, they are pushing it on their kids. I truly believe star wars will forever affect our world, and will stand