Personal Narrative: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Movies have the ability to transport people to different times and places and distract them from ordinary everyday reality. They allow for a range of emotions to be experienced. At their core, movies examine the human condition. There are plenty of deeper truths woven into screenplays and plenty of lessons to be learned, even when an individual is solely seeking entertainment.

In “A Century of Cinema”, Susan Sontag explains how cinema was cherished by those who enjoyed what cinema offered. Cinema was unlike anything else, it was entertainment that had the audience feeling apart of the film. However, as the years went by, the special feeling regarding cinema went away as those who admired cinema wanted to help expand the experience.

Although the best reasons for “going to the movies” are to be entertained and eat popcorn, understanding a film is actually quite complex. Movies are not only a reflection of life, they also have the capability of shaping our norms, values, attitudes, and perception of life. Through the media of film, one can find stories of practically anything imaginable and some things unimaginable. Movie-makers use their art to entertain, to promote political agendas, to educate, and to present life as it is, was, or could be. They can present truth, truth as they interpret it, or simply ignore truth altogether. A movie can be a work of fiction, non-fiction, or anything in-between. A film is an artist’s interpretation. What one takes away from a film depends upon how one interprets what has been seen and heard. Understanding film is indeed difficult.

“Do or do not,” says Yoda, in the acclaimed science fiction movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, “there is no try” (Empire). This quote is perhaps the most famous of the character’s, and perhaps one of the most famous in the whole franchise. It highlights an idea that the scene perpetuates: the fact you intend to do something doesn’t matter, only whether or not it is done. This is not a perfect metaphor for the application of knowledge, but it fits in rather easily. Without an effect, an application, all you have is abstract knowledge – that trying that Yoda denies – and in that way value has been diminished. Two areas of knowledge which especially highlight the values and limitations of that claim are the natural sciences and religion.

In the original three films of the Star Wars saga, the theme of individuality plays a huge role in the development of the characters and the good versus evil dichotomy as a whole. The Empire oppresses individuality within their officers and stormtroopers, whereas the Rebels embrace it within their troops. In the prequels, the usage of individuality gets needlessly complicated. The strict Jedi Code seems to encourage all jedi to act like emotionless machines. Lucas establishes the clones and droids as completely identical and expendable soldiers, making battle scenes relatively unengaging. However, in the animated series The Clone Wars, this lack of individuality in clones and droids gets a do-over. The creators of this show accomplish the improbable by imbuing the battle droids and clones with individuality. Additionally,

First and foremost, I would like to say thank you and show my appreciation for the ability to make up the Jedi versus Scott game tonight. Unfortunately , I have to inform you of events from tonight's game that were very unfortunate. For starters there was no game card for the coaches to sign and put comments of tonight's game and discrepancies. I was allowed a sub during the end of the second half. Before the sub process was complete , the ref on Center named Christian put ball in play. I did not have a full defense. This resulted in a goal. There was a goal caught in the opposing team's goal. The goal was counted. Whenever I approached the ref at the end of the game to sign the card, he had immediate attitude. I asked him about the sub situation.

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

In 1949 Joseph Campbell published his book on myth and heroic archetypes known as “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”. Most importantly, the book outlined the 17 stages of a mythological hero's journey. Star Wars: A New Hope is no exception to the many stories that contain a lot of the main principles presented in the 17 stages of a mythological hero's journey. While writing Star Wars, George Lucas became fascinated with Joseph Campbell’s book. Even though this wasn't necessarily the basis of his story, he was certainly influenced by his obsession with the monomyth.

"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;

We all showed up at Grant’s house at around 10:30. I showed up second to last and I walked up to his house on Grandview. Everybody was inside playing on Bryan’s computer. I’ve never been in his house before, so it was a little weird. I walked in and his dog, Oliver, attacked me. He was a fairly big dog that looked like he weighed as much as me. He was still a puppy so he was a hyper dog. I slowly went over to Bryan so the dog wouldn’t attack me. I was already tired and I wasn’t too sure why. I had to find something that would keep me up. So I went over to his TV and started watching South Park. The episode was of Cartman stealing votes from different states so Obama would be president again, so he could be in the new Star Wars movie.

Motion Pictures have always had a strong influence in today’s culture, but maybe none as prevalent as Star Wars. Originating with Episode 4 A New Hope, the series boomed from 1977 to 2005 with yet another addition coming in 2015. The strongest of the series was the original trilogy episodes 4, 5, and 6, all generally released in the 1980s. As one of the strongest film francaises still today, it’s impact within the 1980s was only the tip of the iceberg. Children and adults alike still anticipate the new edition of this seemingly endless journey. If any singular film series still holds prevalence in its future decades it is Star Wars: Original Trilogy.

Comprised of Tudor houses and firm maples, Shaker Heights was my first teacher. The city was made up of half whites and half African-Americans, so my Asianness stuck out like a sore thumb. But, I learned to find connections with my peers no matter how trivial. A Star Wars Episode V reenactment or an Uno game was enough to start a lasting relationship. In a town that also thrived on the stage and it’s performers, my fascination with the fancy buttons that the adults pressed during plays led to programming lights at the middle and high school, and eventually an inclination towards computer science.

     The First of the three part series, Star Wars, is the tale of a band of

Ever since I was a young kid I have always been interested in movies. My grandma, who was full of the wise the life experience left, always knew about my interest in movies. She feed my vain for the art. Even though her religion, she professed Adventist of seven-day religion, didn't let her go to the cinema, she always found the way to took me to the cinema. She and I enjoyed watch movies. We used to sit in the darkness room, with our faces illuminated from the reflection of the light which rebooted from the screen, both absorbs in the plot of the movie which made us laughed or cried. After the movie, while we went back to her home, she started to talk about the movie. She had a particular point of view where the main story

From flying across the galaxy to massive space battles and interactions between multiple species of aliens and other worldly creatures. just about everyone nowa something about George Lucas’s famous space sage Star Wars and has at least watched a few of the movies and so,e people may even think they know everything about this movie and it's creators but most likely there are things you do not know about these famous and successful movies so today I am going to talk about six fun facts that you most likely do not know about Star Wars.