The Star Wars Trilogy

The book Religion and Film compares the beginning of every Star Wars film to Genesis 1:1 in the Christian bible, in that the reader/viewer is transported immediately into the realm of myth. “A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” prefaces the films, which has the same effect as “In the beginning, …”, according to Plate (28). The vague time and

to destroy the Death Star is made. Luke is chased by Vader and Solo comes to the

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

In just the course of A New Hope, Luke’s character changes immensely. The critical incident that sparks a change of his

"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;

The Force Awakens is the newest episode of Star Wars that has been released in theatres, and takes place many years after the fall of the Galactic Empire. The Resistance, the new Rebel Alliance, now faces a new threat, the First Order. In the hopes of defeating this threat, they look to Luke Skywalker, who’s whereabouts are unknown. Rey, the capable and independent protagonist, rescues a BB-8 unit and discovers it holds the missing piece of the map that leads to Luke. Together, along with Finn, Han Solo, and Chewbacca, they must find a way to deliver the piece of the map to The Resistance and stop the First Order’s plans of annihilation.

Episode IV was set during a time of war between the Rebellion, the good side, and the Empire, which is considered the evil side. The science fiction story is about a young man, Luke Skywalker, who travels into space to fight against the Empire. Luke is from the planet Tatooine, a desert, where he farms water with his uncle. Luke’s uncle buys two droids, R2D2 and C3PO, who happen to have been involved in the war and worked for the rebellion. Luke discovers a recording in one of the droids of Princess Leia saying she needed help, and that sparks the beginning of his journey. He meets Ben, also known as Obi-Wan Kenobi, who becomes his mentor, and teaches him how to use “the force”. In Star Wars, “the force” is a magical way for people to control things using their unconscious minds. Luke sets out on a journey into space to rescue the princess and join the Rebellion in the war effort. Luke and Obi-Wan meet Han solo, a pilot, and ask him to take them into space. They plan to go to Alderaan, Princess Leia’s home planet; however, they are unintentionally sucked into the Death Star, the spacecraft and weapon of the Empire. They find out that Princess Leia is being held in the Death Star, and they plan to help her escape. While Han and Luke try to help Leia, Obi-Wan is fighting Darth Vader, the evil leader of the Empire. Unfortunately, Obi-Wan is killed by Darth Vader; although, Luke, Han and Leia escape the Death Star. They go to a Rebellion headquarter and find the weak spot of the Death Star.

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George Lucas was a very credible director because he was influenced by the small town he grew up in Modesto. According to The Secret History of Star Wars, “Lucas’ father felt that George never quite measured up to his ideals of what a good son should be.” (Kiminski 9) Lucas seems to be comparing himself to the main character in Star Wars: A New Hope, Luke Skywalker. Both Luke and Lucas grew up in small towns, didn’t have a strong relationship with their father (or in Luke’s case, didn’t know their father), and they both thought they would never leave the small town they resided in.

• Luke Skywalker is a sensitive human male Force who helped defeat the Galactic Empire in the Galactic Civil War and helped found the New Republic, as well as the New Jedi Order.

Over the course of her adventure with Finn, she discovers new friends within in the Resistance. She goes up against General Leia’s son, Ben (known now as Kylo Ren), with whom she develops

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: 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.

When it comes to the upcoming Star Wars movies--owned by Disney, logistically disowned by George Lucas, partially corrupted by sub-par prequels, and an aging Harrison Ford--most fans of the franchise are split between semi-religious release at the thought of a continuation to the universe the epic tale has weaved, or abhor the idea of seeing some favored actors limp around on stage for what may amount to nothing more than symbolic mania, deadening the old trilogy’s significance.

This is supported by my favorite quote of the article, ”’We were at Pinewood and Peter Jackson was in town. We were like, ‘oh we should get Peter along, we should try and get him to come’, Edwards explained to Empire for its latest podcast special.’” Empire is a film review site in which they rate the newest movies to be released, they conduct interviews with the directors and actors, and also give short summaries of the movies that they are rating. Peter Jackson explains in one of his interviews that he’s always enjoyed making movies and inspired by watching movies, Star Wars being among his favorites. With the immediate response to the email sent by Edwards, he shows tremendous interest in the manga, so much so, that he would even take a directing role to supervise it and introduce a whole new world to the Star Wars series. Jackson later goes on to say in an interview with Cinemablend, “[George Lucas] is the Thomas Edison of the modern film industry,” and that he, “is more of an inventor or an innovator than a