Stars Wars : The Force

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.

Much of the Star Wars ' credibility and popularity is owed to the richness of its fictional world as defined by writer/director George Lucas. In an interview, Lucas states that the original idea for Star Wars was modelled on the movies of his childhood, The “Flash Gordon movie serials and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars Series of books.” The mise-en-scène in Star Wars plays a vitally important role, so the question explored in this essay is how the use of mise-en-scène adds depth to the themes in Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope (1977), paying particular attention to ‘good versus evil’. This theme stands out in because it speaks to one of the oldest struggles of all, the battle between right and wrong.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… there were two exceptional leaders by the name of Darth Vader, and Luke Skywalker. As many know, these two men are the leading antagonist and protagonist of the immensely popular franchise, Star Wars. For those that do not know, Darth Vader is the villain who leads a heinous army known as The Empire. Through methods of fear and intimidation, Vader fabricates a mega-weapon capable of destroying entire planets known as the Death Star. Luke Skywalker defies all odds as he uses the methods of stimulation and team building to try to lead the Rebels in an uprising against the tyrants. Each of these leaders is very successful in their own unique methods.

External influences may guide an individual towards their destiny, but only the person themselves can attain their full potential once they believe in their own ability to succeed. As American positivist author Norman Vincent Peale once said, “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy” (Brainy Quote). This can be seen in George Lucas’ Star Wars IV: A New Hope, the protagonist, Luke Skywalker, is an isolated young farmer on the planet Tatooine who is propelled in an unexpected mission to save the Rebel Alliance Leader, Princess Leia, as they struggle to defeat the Galactic Empire. To that effect, when analyzing George Lucas’ film from a Jungian psychoanalytic perspective, Luke is the main character

A “composite” of the character, including film or book title, personal/demographic information of their characteristics of giftedness, and any unique challenges they face are provided.

The dramatic war-like classic of a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, it is Star Wars. It made a huge impact in the 70s for its THX digitally mastered sound, new visual effects, but most of all the marvelous theme, without which, Star Wars would not be half the film it is now. It took the science fiction genre to a whole new era. Therefore, Star Wars IV is the best science fiction movies of all times.

Now Anakin Skywalker full transformed into what we know him now as Darth Vader. Now a Sith lord something that Anakin thought he would ever be now has turned into a powerful villain. Now wanting to get back at the jedi Vader leads clone troops and is going to try and kill the jedi. Vader meets with Padmé and tries to get her to go along side him so that they can fight this war and rule the galaxy together. Soon after obi wan comes out of Padmé’s ship and Vader fills with anger.

The romance genre is our vision of an ideal and innocent world. In our imagination, this world is full of hope and possibility. Romance shows a place where people are at their happiest and in their most desirable circumstances. It usually is associated in the summer, and always starts positively and ends positively. Star Wars IV:

The Millennium Falcon, that is carrying Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Han Solo, Chewbacca, R2D2 and C-3PO gets pulled into a force field and is forced to land in the space station, appearing to be vacant to the Stormtrooper, they are able to divert attention from themselves get to a control room and take it over. This is the point where Obi-Wan leaves the pack and tells Luke that “The Force” will always be with

Boldly, since Han does not back down much from a challenge, he decides to pursue the enemy Starfighter and it turns out to not be the right move at all. Because of the fact, that the imperial ship not putting up a fight against Han Solo was all part of the ploy to drag the Rebel group to the Death star where in turn the tractor beam from the structure sucked them up like a vacuum cleaner. Once on board of the death star, after C3PO and R2D2 aid the men in discovering that Princess Leia is on board, the group splits up in two different directions. The first group consisting of Luke, Han, and Chewbacca set up a scheme as it looks like they are arresting Chewbacca while dressed as Stormtroopers in order to gain access to the fifth floor where Leia was being incapacitated. Whereas, Obi-Wan Kenobi sought to find and disable the machines which were responsible for running the Death Star’s tractor beam system, but however ends up going on an essential wild goose chase. Obi-Wan’s goose chase derives primarily from the fact, that he felt an immense fluctuation within the force that he had not felt for a while and in turn sought to find out what he perceived as his old apprentice Anakin Skywalker now Darth Vader who most likely was causing it. Upon completion of the two segregated tasks the

Star Wars was originally released in 1977 and became one of the largest grossing films of all time. George Lucas developed two additional sequels and a prequel that developed the extremely successful franchise. The first film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope placed the viewers into the middle of a civil war between The Republic and The Empire. The story follows a young Jedi Knight (Luke Skywalker) and his journey to defeat (with a lot of help) The Empire. As the story progresses through the the next movie, more characters are introduced and Luke becomes closer and closer to completing his destiny of defeating the Empire. This is done through futuristic battles in space

The Phantom Menace wasn’t the Star Wars we all knew and loved. It was riddled with endless CGI, water-dwelling creatures that just wouldn’t shut up, and a little kid that you couldn’t help but want to perish in a pod racing accident. And, although the two sequels that follow, Attack of the Clones & Revenge of the Sith, gradually got better – it still didn’t change the fact that the Power of the Forced had been tainted and diminished.

'Star Wars IV, A New Hope' written by Alan Dean Foster is an adaptation of the motion picture 'Star Wars IV, A New Hope'. This novel is canon and included in the Star Wars universe. It is about a war raging on in space. As per the opening text, this war took place "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away". Just like the film, a young moisture farmer named Luke comes across an old, mysterious hermit who was a former Jedi Knight. Luke gains the possession of two droids (Artificial Intelligence robots). The Galactic Empire are on the lookout for these droids and Luke comes home to find his aunt and uncle dead. The hermit, Luke, and the droids set off into space to join the rebellion and save the galaxy. This novel gives me a sense of excitement

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi is final chapter in an epic story of good versus evil. The script was written by George Lucas and was released in theatres on May 25, 1983 (IMDb.com). It was the third film released in the Star Wars saga, following Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope and Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (IMDb.com). At the time, Episode VI concluded the story of Luke Skywalker and his Rebel friends fighting against Darth Vader and the evil Empire.

Set approximately 10 years after The Phantom Menace, this installment in the beloved saga sees Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and his Padawan Anakin Skywalker (newcomer Hayden Christensen) act as bodyguards to Padmé Amidala (Natalie Portman) who now serves as the senator from Naboo. Obi-Wan spends the majority of the film tracking down Amidala’s would-be assassin, discovering a secret clone army for the Jedi in the process. Anakin, on the other hand, begins to fall in love with Padmé and takes the first noticeable steps to becoming Darth Vader.