The creator and director of Star Wars, George Lucas, was incredibly successful for his movie series, but even more successful for its overall purpose: to sell toys to ten-year old boys. The use of ethos, pathos, and logos are very abundant in this movie. Ethos, Greek for “character”, is anything referring to or relying on the author’s credibility. Pathos, Greek for “emotional”, is anything that makes you feel emotion. Logos, Greek for “word”, is anything that makes you think. By using these he was able to persuade the audience into thinking, feeling, and loving Star Wars, making the audience want to purchase figurines.
“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.
Star Wars Episode 8: The Last Jedi was released in December 2017 with much fanfare and generally positive critical reviews. As a lifelong fan of the Star Wars franchise, I was thrilled to see the next continuation in the saga and find out what direction it would go. After leaving the theater I was duly impressed. The movie featured some beautiful visuals and adequate plot twists to keep the audience interested. It also provided some surprisingly humorous moments that added comic relief although it did feel somewhat forced at times. However, despite the good, I had a few issues with the movie in general. The biggest flaw was its treatment Supreme Leader Snoke. He could have been an interesting character; however, there is little to explain him
Upon its release, Star Wars: A New Hope, had an immediate impact on society and aspects of this film are still embedded into popular culture today. This film is considered to be the pioneer of visual effects. These new-found visuals led the public to believe it was the inspiration for the United States Department of Defense to create a missile protection system during the Cold War.
In 2005, the year “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith” came out, I was a mere 9 years old. My parents being rather strict about my movie watching, I was not allowed to see the film upon its release. I was crushed, especially since my best friend who is a month younger than me saw it in theaters (the injustice!). Two years later, my parents gave me the gift I wanted most for my 11th birthday: a “ticket” to watch “Revenge of the Sith” with them on my dad’s DVD copy that night. (I still have that ticket, a green, rectangular piece of paper with a simple black font with the words “ADMIT ONE” across the top). It was the highlight of my moviegoing life to that point. I loved the film.
“Bang!” The sound of the Death Star getting destroyed sending echoes across the galaxy, “Cut.”. George Lucas is one of the galaxy’s known filmmakers of all epochs, making two of the biggest movie series ever, “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones”. George Lucas has nostalgic early years, many gargantuan accomplishments, he filmed and wrote many movies, and there are many other crazy facts about this filmmaker.
The Star Wars Trilogy always have one thing that is stated: the Force. The Force is an unlimited power that is in every living objects. As exciting as that sounds, the idea of the Force has been created out of many religions. The idea of the Force came from different religion such as: Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity
Star Wars is a global phenomenon that brings fun, adventure and excitement to millions of fans worldwide. With the release of the three movies of the prequel trilogy a whole new set of characters and adventures were introduced to the Star Wars fandom. Characters like Obi Wan Kenobi, JarJar Binks, Padme Admidala introduced a new generation to the battle for control of the galaxy between the suporters of the Peaceful Galactic Republic and the evil Galactic Empire. To celebrate the new films in the legendary franchise LEGO released a wide range of building sets based of scenes, characters, and events of the movies. For those who love star wars, especially episodes I, II, and III these sets are a great way to bring the action to life in your own home regardless of your age.
The choice is theirs to cut off their leg and shoot a man or die. They chose not to die even though the consequence means someone else's demise. This is the premise for every saw movie made life and death decisions on a whim. All movies have this same dilemma or set of choices, maybe not as violent but still decisions need to be made. A man with a thousand faces a book to describe this phenomenon of movie magic and all storyline progression. The themes are simple as Joseph Campbell describes in the book pointing out that every story has a repetitious style stolen throughout history. Every motion and step already taken a hundred times before. Of course, this gets old after a while so the scenery changes with the people, but the steps are still
Despite big budgets and record entries in cinemas, some movies are just not as good as they are thought to be or as at least the expectations of the fans are. Among such movie is the Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Many have reviewed it positively based on its budget and popularity but whereas it might deserve such positive reviews, the fact that the movie is overrated is evident since there are many rip offs, poor cinematography and many other cinematic flaws.
The 1977 scientific fiction film ‘Star Wars’ introduced huge advancement in special effects from aliens to spaceships to planets, each and every element of a young cinematographer George Lucas gave a new edge of visual effects in Cinema. The film also spawned a new special effects house, Industrial light and Magic, which are one of the most popular visual effects studios today. Dykstra and Lucas used extremely detailed miniatures, animation and a pioneering system of computer-controlled motion photography to create special effects (SFX) that still look fresh today. Star Wars was the first big-budget blockbuster to rely on realistic action scenes and explosions, and essentially invented the techniques to achieve this. Dykstra destroyed the Death
Star Wars, a galactic sci-fi fantasy directed by George Lucas, has been a growing American cult classic for the past few decades. Ever since its first premiere in 1977, the franchise has been a growing success in the entertainment and film industry, inspiring a number of directors and filmmakers to shift towards creating action-packed blockbuster hits for younger audiences. It took years of multiple rough drafts and sketches to form the ideal vision Lucas had been trying to unravel in his head. Everything regarding the film— from the film set to the buttons on the costumes— went through scrutiny The purpose of this essay is to acknowledge the creation of Star Wars and the creative process running through Lucas’ mind — his ideas and
During the 1970s many studios closed their in-house special effects departments. Many of the now job-less special effects artists became freelancers or founded their own effects companies. It was also during this time period that a major blockbuster success that relied heavily on special effects was released. George Lucas’s Star Wars gave birth to a new era of science-fiction films with big budgets and impressive special effects. Lucas’s team of special effects artists further developed and refined many existing effects technologies. The team developed a computer controlled camera rig call the “Dykstraflex” that allowed for the camera to do the exact same motions every single take. Lucas and John Dykstra’s assembled effects crew were
To get to the origins of the billboard, we need to start with the story of Star Wars. In 19xx George Lucas has an idea that become Star Wars. In 1976, with the first novel, and again in 1977 with the release of the motion picture that idea became a reality. But not even Lucas knew what a phonomenia it would become. He captured not only the minds but the hearts of the public. Those most enraptured with his work would clamber for every scrap we could get are hands on. It was slow coming after the Original Trilogy was released. Then through the dedication of a lone Lucasfilm employee, Lucy Autrey Wilson, The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn was published.
When I first saw the trailer for this movie about a year ago, I couldn’t wait for it to come out. So when it finally did, I took the first chance I got and went to see it. The seventh chapter of the Star Wars saga is centered on the search for Luke Skywalker by the Resistance, before the First Order finds him. The First Order wants to destroy the last of the Jedi, but let that be the help that the Resistance needs in order to defeat the First Order.