Chris Taylor's How Star Wars Conquered The Universe

I remember I watched the Revenge of the Sith for the first time in 2005. I grew up watching the original trilogy with my dad, who has always been a fan of Star Wars. We weren’t overly fond of the prequel series, but he still brought the movie home from Blockbuster and turned it on for all of us to watch. Anakin Skywalker, the protagonist, speaks to his wife for the first time since he turned over to the dark side. “I don’t want to lose you the way I lost my mother. I am becoming more powerful than any Jedi has ever dreamed of, and I’m doing it for you—to protect you…Don’t you see? We don’t have to run away anymore. I have brought peace to the Republic. I am more powerful than the Chancellor. I can overthrow him and together you and I can rule

Timothy Findley in his novel The Wars uses a postmodern device where the narration is nonlinear in chronology, making it subjective and more based on memory, ultimately deeming the reader’s perception of the past and the present to be precarious and unreliable. The Wars focuses on a young Canadian WWI officer named Robert Ross. Robert’s story is recounted after his death through many other characters such as Marian Turner, Lady Juliet d’Orsey, and the archivists. Yet, these characters are separated from Robert Ross through one main medium: time. Since these characters are separated from Robert Ross through time and space, the consistency of their perception comes

To the United States, World War II is believed to be a good war, and why wouldn’t it be considered as such? During World War II, in addition to stopping mass genocide and stopping the spread of Nazism and Fascism, the United States beat Japan after their attack on Pearl Harbor. As a result, the U.S. was no longer in the Depression and the United States became a world power. However, in “The Best War Ever,” Michael C.C. Adams argues that as a result of Hollywood’s glamorization of the war, government propaganda/censorship, and the widespread of economic prosperity, Americans were kept in the dark about the truth regarding World War II resulting in the popular belief and myth that World War II was a good war.

Timothy Findley’s The Wars portrays the effects of war on soldiers in battle, as well as the members of family and friends that suffer from loss and insanity. As each character over the progression of the story is exposed to change, the character’s ability to adapt has a significant correlation with their survival, those that can quickly adapt to survive can manage to get by. Soldiers must be able to suppress the extreme stress on the battlefield. Those that cannot overcome these challenges do not survive in war. Murder is quickly pushed out of a soldiers mind, killing others in effort to protect their own life or the life of others around them. Findley demonstrates how war can negatively alter a person’s behaviour. This is seen through

George Lucas was more interested in cars and motor racing and wanted to be a race car driver, but, on June 12, 1962, when he was in a serious car accident, he changed his mind. While studying in

When intrigued or often obsessed with something, you may seem to bring it into all aspects of your life. The Columnist Christopher Borelli has certainly done just that with his writings. Although some articles are not about Star Wars, I chose, as an invested fan in Harry Potter, to see how someone just as invested in Star Wars viewed the world.

For an event, which has impacted a whole generation to fight a war, Pearl Harbor does not always hold up to the word infinity. In the past seventy years there have been countless books, articles and movies written about World War Two and Pearly Harbor. Each book brings a different approach to the impact of Pearl and how it has impacted the world since. In the book, The Best War Ever, by Michael Adams, and A Date Which Will Live, by Emily Rosenberg both tackle the issues of memory after the war and myths, which have been, proceed by the war. In smaller circles school newspaper is a good source to study to see how one school remembers events such as Pearl Harbor and the memory of it.

Luke, I never really knew what to think of my name it was just there my Whole life, although behind the name there was another world that I never knew about. “Light Given” that is what my name means in greek. I get related to the movie “Star Wars” as Luke Skywalker all the time, almost every day I get called “Skywalker” or someone always says “LUKE, I am your father…” Something I will never be able to escape, although now it is apart of me. Every time someone calls me skywalker I play along because really they are just complimenting my name. The name Luke, from Star Wars was give to him by the creator of the character, George Lucas. If you think about it it fits the movie so well and it was well chosen. Although that was not my case, my name was chosen because my parents thought it fit me well. They refused to name be befor I was born just so my name would fit me. Otherwize I would have been named Samuel. Everyone that knew me said it would be weird calling me Samuel, and I would have to agree with them.

"A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." (Lloyd) is the infamous beginning of one of the biggest, if not the biggest pop culture phenomenon of our time. Star Wars is a famous trilogy well known for it's action-packed scenes and technological achievement. The movies center around the all-powerful, all-controlling "Force". With all that we have come to know about Star Wars, we have yet to discover the true meaning of "The force" and if it is really a representation of some thing much bigger and much closer to us than we think.

As a result, “popcorn space epics,” like Star Wars, were not appealing to Hollywood (Untold). Also, before Star Wars, Hollywood’s science fiction movies were mostly dreary, and were about miserable human societies (Myint). For example, Logan’s Run (1976) was a famous dystopian themed movie that was about a seemingly perfect society in which people over 30 must die (Turner). Since science fiction was not a popular genre at the time, the expectations that the audience had for Star Wars were pretty low. Nevertheless, George Lucas believed that there was a chance for science fiction to be a leading genre in American cinema (Norwich

George Lucas Master Movie Mind Historical, famous, and master mind are three words people often think of in connection with George Lucas. Many people know George Lucas as a hero in society because he changed the world as a movie director of Star Wars and more. He showed America, that people could be successful in the hard times of life. He left a legacy as a Master Movie Maker.

Did you know in a film such as Star Wars, a huge franchise in today's world, can not only have a cultural but a technological impact on our world today? Star wars is a major franchise known for its technological devices and it's sci fi style format. But can also be seen as a persuasively impactful tool used in society today. Not only from a technological standpoint but also from a cultural point of view. Star Wars is not only entertaining but also impactful in society.

Jim Sciutto conducted a 1-hr documentary on the inevitable war in space. Sciutto interviewed more than ten national security, defense and high-ranking military personnel to include the entire chain of command for space warfare. Sciutto explains that American (citizens, military, and government) depends on our satellites every day. However, our adversaries are targeting America's satellites and are preparing to disarm America from her satellites usage with weapon systems such as lasers, kamikaze satellites, and even kidnapper satellites.

The two most popular Sci-Fi movie franchises are compared a lot to one another either by fans or movie goers everywhere. “Star Wars” and “Star Trek” are the two biggest names that pop up when you think of Sci-Fi films. But a lot of movie goers think that these two franchise are a lot alike, just because they have aliens and there in outer space doesn’t mean the franchise are alike at all. Star Wars and Star Trek are two completely different genres itself when it comes to the Sci-fi genre.

I will be considering that Star Wars appeals to many different people, proof of this is that it was released again in 1997 and still was groundbreaking to the millions of older viewers, also capturing the imagination of the younger generation. Sci-fi films are known to have