Star Wars Influence

Star Wars and its Influences
Star Wars defined the summer as the prime releasing season, placed a new emphasis on young audiences, used special effects, animation, computers and exhilarating action to speed up the pacing, and grossed so much money that many of the best young directors gave quest for the great american film and aimed for the box office crown instead. With star wars and its impact upon release in the 70s it brought a new focus to hollywood's filmmaking, making the films appointed the teens .Not only were people excited for the films by waiting in lines, they were all looking to find the star wars experience all on its own. With the star wars trilogy becoming one of the most influential films for other films made, what did star
wars do differently at the time for them to have such an impact?
With star wars becoming a popular film around the 1970s it played a role that lead it to become a influential film for many coming films. Star wars had a spontaneous impact on the box office upon its release extending the years of interest from fans, also by a wide range of products based on the films”. Filmmakers and the audience saw success and wanted to replicate the star wars experience. With the film mainly attracting teens who paid to see the film multiple times, the filmmakers hoped that it would also grab the attention of the teens family.
With new technological advancements star wars had seen some improvement in the characters, from makeup, and armour detailing. To digital enhancements with yoda,tatooine, and force lightning. This lead to the films overall best outcome. In with new ideas the star wars creative team managed to make emperor palpatine look substantially younger, with the help of makeup and some behind the scenes magic.he looks younger throughout the original trilogy.
ILM had some of the first 3D computer characters like casper , helping the star wars franchise and helping ILM itself by now creating an animation studio called pixar.
The impact of star wars wasn't limited to only politics and pop culture but had more correlation towards science and technological advancements, it seemed like our world was becoming more like that galaxy far, far away, so it seemed.
star wars portrayed a concert like vibe with lines out the door to see the film, while that still occurs today, when star wars first appeared it was unheard of for people to wait in line for a film, there was great films that came out alongside star wars like “Jaws” being one of them. But with star wars coming out of nowhere in the 70s and 80s it created a passion for moviegoers that lasted nearly four decades. Fans of movies was unlikely because many films at the time were solo films with no back up story or continuation.
Soon star wars would see the face of “New York Times” who said it was seen as a new genre “general and family films” which brought diversity amongst social groups in the cinema, no other film at the time was creating so much different positivity than star wars. With going to the movies today and in the past is very different. Since in the past there was no internet
there was no commercials or movie trailers. Whatever the title was and what the poster looked like was your insight on the movie. The movie industry itself was so different in the way we anticipated movies. When Lucas was making Star wars, there was no great anticipation it was an entirely different landscape. You could say that Lucas had the benefit of making a movie without expectations. Even though he had to deal with delivering a movie to a bunch of studio executives that had no confidence in Lucas or the film he was making. Big summer event movies like jaws and star wars made the moviegoing experience from going with your friends or family to a movie maybe every Friday night to the thing to do that summer. People lined up in drive ins, watched it multiple times and captured every detail as if they were striving for more.
Star wars was creating so much attention that people started to create film with the same intergalactic scenery like star trek.
Fan films were even being created, even big tv shows had their shot at the star wars craze like family having a star wars themed episode, even the music and been copied from the original to being heard by orchestras everywhere. With star wars becoming a hit the art containing star wars material skyrocketed.
Star wars also had more subtle influences on hollywood's filmmaking. It managed the modern special effects movies as well as movie trilogies creating a lane for movies like “Lord of the Rings’ and “The Matrix”. It showed how much money can be brought in only based on merchandise, sometimes bringing in more money that the movie itself. At the time sci-fi films were not huge in the filmmaking industry, until star wars appeared to hit the big screens. Star wars created the fanatic film culture that exist today. When the film was released to the public everyone was shocked, no one had seen anything like it. People forget how new everything was with SFX however the film gave us exciting characters,action, and mythology.Darth Vader became an instant crowd favorite. The movie broke records that it didn't even intend to, for a sci-fi film that was unheard
of.
Upon its release, star wars was what everyone was talking about. Kids gave up the cowboys and soldiers and picked up a lightsaber. Star wars merchandise was replacing popular toys at that moment. Tv stations started to buy into the star wars hype and started mentioning star wars as much as possible.The huge income of star wars influenced paramount to make star trek. From this summer on sci-fi was the dominant genre being produced. Before star wars sci-fi was a sketchy platform to invest in. before star wars no one really knew the limits special effects could bring. Despite the obstacles lucas faced he pushed to keep the film going and the turnout was successful not only for him... but the other filmmakers that used his film as an inspiration to create some of the secondary sci-fi films that are still popular today.
After Star Wars, everything was completely different. 1977 was the turning point for expectations and for industry standards. It was a barrier-breaking moment. It was a remarkable thing to experience. There’d never been anything like it before. Maybe there never will be again.