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Star Wars A New Hope Analysis

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Star Wars - A New Hope The Academy award winning movie Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, originally released as Star Wars, is a 1977 action packed, fanciful, thrilling space opera. Ably directed by George Lucas and distributed by Twentieth Century, Star Wars: A New Hope is among the most successful and influential films of all time. As well as, being selected to be preserved by the Library of Congress as part of its National Film Registry The first of 8 films in the Star Wars Saga is jam-packed with aliens, futuristic technology and supernatural abilities, such as the Millennium Falcon, Choobaka and of course, ‘The Force’. In the beginning of the film, we see Princess Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher), the leader of the Rebel Alliance was captured and taken to the Death Star; a planet destroying mobile space station. Meanwhile, a young farmer named Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) unintentionally buys the two brave and ingenuous droids, who have stolen the architectural plans of the Death Star in the hope of finding its weakness. This leads Luke Skywalker to meet Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness), who has lived in seclusion for years on the desert planet of Tatooine. When Luke's home is burned and his aunt and …show more content…

For instance, The Cantina Scene had a very long shot of the Pirate City and then zooming into the Mos Eisley Cantina. In addition, the film also had an abundance of close-ups of the actors faces to enhance their emotions to the audience. Lastly, they had a lot of point-of-view shot to put the audience in the characters’ shoes. Close-ups and point-of-view shots are used lots when the characters were on the escaping from the TIE Fighter in the Millennium Falcon, to show the characters’ concentration, pressure and point of

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