Star Wars (1977) is one of the world’s most successful films of all time. It has made a terrific impact on popular culture since its release. Furthermore, Star Wars changed the narrative and aesthetic style of future Hollywood films. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, illustrates how cinema has evolved since Fred Ott’s Sneeze (1894). Ultimately, this essay will explain the set up of Star Wars and how it connects to cinema history, in the point of views of the: narrative and cinematic style, genre, auteur theory and the global film industry. Star Wars is well known for its amazing stories and characters. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope portrays the established Hollywood’s narrative style through its plot. Princess Lia is held hostage by Dark …show more content…
George Lucas wrote and directed Star Wars, he had tons of creative and production control just like Hitchcock. Furthermore, the film demonstrates his aesthetic vision through recurring themes of good verse evil, heroes fighting for good and saving the day. Lastly, the film demonstrates thematic and stylistic consistencies to create the meaningful narrative. One thing that stands out from Star Wars that illustrates George Lucas’ control over the production is the credits. He did not want the credits at the beginning of the film so the audience can focus on the narrative. In the late 1950’s the auteur theory was introduced to filmmaking which created a new way of making films. Auteur theory went against the classical narrative by focusing on realism. Auteur films had ambiguous endings, which deeper into the character’s physiological state. Even though, Star Wars demonstrates certain auteur elements, it does not go against the classical narrative. To conclude, Star Wars mixed classical Hollywood techniques with the auteur theory that lead to a different and unique way of making a …show more content…
It has a huge impact on popular culture that people feel obligated to go see the films. Star Wars movies are shown and promoted nearly worldwide. In addition, Star Wars is one of the first films to have the most successful merchandise franchise. “These movies began building buzz long before they opened and commanded coverage in magazines and the emerging genre of infotainment television” (Bordwell and Thompson 683), basically Star Wars is a mega picture. It is everywhere and all over people’s faces, for example Episode VII has been promoted in the past year all over the world. The movie tickets in many theaters have sold out because people feel obligated to see it. On the other hand, films in the 1890’s did not have the type of promotion Star Wars has received, but a lot of people went to see the short silent films. Due to a few reasons: for entertainment, escape reality, popular culture, and going out to the movie theater to watch a film was a social norm at the time. When it came to merchandise, Disney was doing it for years, but merchandise did not make a huge impact until Star Wars. As a result, Star Wars changed and inspired new promotion and money-making strategies for all the Hollywood
Far off in a distant galaxy an infamous story would begin, A New Hope. This episode is the one that began it all and lead to one of the most influential sagas of all time. Opening with the beautiful rebel leader Princess Leia, her ship undergoes direct attack from the known and feared villain, Darth Vader. He orders his troops to look about for important documents, meanwhile Leia says her famous message into R2-D2, a droid unit “Hel...
Imagine flying through a ice covered planet or zooming through the sand plains of tattoine or battling against the dark side next to Luke Skywalker well sounds amazing right? These are the things that make the Star Wars universe so fascinating in the upcoming paragraphs about how Star Wars has elements of story, that make Star Wars so popular. Star Wars is a cultural institution of immense proportions. Its impact on Hollywood alone has been incalculable. It’s impossible to imagine Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., The Matrix, or The Lord of the Rings without Star Wars. Yes because all these movies have been impacted from Star Wars they all transfer you to a different era from you fighting off Nazis to walking into mordor.
On May 25th, 1977, the world was introduced to Star Wars. Star Wars: A New Hope is a scientific fantasy film written and directed by George Lucas. This movie was the first of its kind, due to the inclusion of extensive special effects and the captivating realm it was set in. No other movie had expressed such creativity in the way that George Lucas did in the first installment of the Star Wars franchise. With such a variety of intriguing creatures, from Wookies to droids, the film became an extreme success.
The First of the three part series, Star Wars, is the tale of a band of
George Lucas wrote the move Star Wars in the late 1970’s. “The film became and international success because of its creative special effects, appealing characters, and suspenseful story of good versus evil” (World Book 513). The original Star Wars garnered 8 Academy Awards for George Lucas. He did not stop at just making one Star Wars movie, George Lucas went on to make 2 sequels, both written by George Lucas, by 1983. The first sequel he wrote was “The Empire Strikes Back” in 1980, which was nominated for a PEO award in 1981 and took the Academy award in 1980 for sound. In 1983 Lucas gave it another go by releasing “The Return of the Jedi” which did not win any awards but was nominated for best film in the 1984 PEO awards.
George Lucas is best known for the Star Wars series. Most people have heard of him or seen a Star Wars movie or show. He made other movies than just Star Wars however. This would include his first film THX 1138 4EB later renamed to just THX 1138 which had become a flop but some critics would see a deeper meaning. He also made American Graffiti which became a phenomenon.
“Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back” is regarded by many fans as the best of all the Star Wars films. In the beginning, it definitely lives up to its title as the Galactic Empire does indeed strike back and drive the rebels from their new base. It also establishes hope for the future in that most of the rebel forces survive, and we see their fleet at the end of the film. This fleet and the main characters are then instrumental in the next film in one of the greatest sagas on the big
Ancient Greek and Roman films are an established fixture in the history of classical cinema and have inaugurated powerful themes that repeatedly emerge in popular culture and contemporary films as a monument to the potency and importance of the ancient world. An exemplary model based upon the concepts and motifs of ancient Rome, is The Star Wars Saga - an extragalactic space opera weaved with both visual and narrative parallels to the Roman Empire. From the iconic chronology of Christianity opposing Rome, to the conversion of the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire - Star Wars is a modern epic that has profound and compelling connections to the ancient world.
The film I chose to analyze was “Star-wars The last Jedi “. Although this film has not yet to been released ,I chose this film because it is one of the most raved about movies of all time and has already been advertised and highly talked about by fans.After analyzing the films site ,I found that most of the photographs on the site were of some of the main characters of the movie that many Star Wars fans will find familiar. The main attraction to the site is the live background,which includes action scenes from the movie . The live background scenes definitely made me more interested in watching the film and explore the page a little more. What caught my attention the most from the site was the “Story”. The story provides a small insight on
If a film prequel film makes you want to run home to watch the films that come after it, you know you made something good. The moment I got in my car to go home after seeing the film, I knew that I had to head home and watch the originals. It wasn’t like I wanted to, but I really had to. Once you see this film, you can appreciate it even more once you see A New Hope. It’s when you watch the original that you appreciate how well done they did Rogue One.
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Screenplay & Dir. George Lucas. Lucasfilm & Twentieth Century Fox, 1977. Film
Quite possibly one of the most iconic openings in cinematic history is “A Long time ago in a galaxy far far away.” Of course, I am referring to Star Wars. It is such a fascinating and great movie going experience. There have been a total of seven Star Wars films, but in this essay I am going to be focusing on Star Wars: Episode 3- Revenge of the Sith. This film was written and directed by George Lucas and of the science fiction genre. Revenge of the Sith was released in theaters on May 19, 2005.
Although Star Wars takes place "in a galaxy far, far away," that does not mean that it is not significant or that it cannot be used to help us better understand our own society. Star Wars has had an enormous impact on our society and our popular culture. Just as anthropologists study other cultures, which in turn helps them better understand their own cultures, we can better understand ourselves by studying how technology is represented in this far-off place. By studying ...
Koenrad Kuiper, writing in the Journal of Popular Culture in the mid 1980s suggests that "[the] Star Wars trilogy creates and recreates imperial myths which serve to sustain imperial culture" (77). He goes on to contend that the Empire of George Lucas’s long ago and far away world recreate these myths for us now as, essentially, a form of social control. Since Kuiper was writing, however, we have been graced with the first in the Star Wars series, The Phantom Menace.
‘Then came the films’; writes the German cultural theorist Walter Benjamin, evoking the arrival of a powerful new art form at the end of 19th century. By this statement, he tried to explain that films were not just another visual medium, but it has a clear differentiation from all previous mediums of visual culture.