"Star Wars" creator George Lucas‚ center‚ celebrate the opening of a theme park ride in 2011. Disney is paying $4 billion for Lucas’ film studio Lucasfilm. Updated at 7:15 p.m. ET: Walt Disney Co. is buying Lucasfilm in a $4 billion deal that brings the best-selling "Star Wars" franchise under the Disney umbrella‚ with plans to release Episode 7 of the long-running saga in 2015. Disney has long had a close relationship with closely held Lucasfilm and founder George Lucas‚ including featured attractions
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point remains. The theme of possessing obedience is exemplified in several places throughout the movie and script. The best examples are towards the end of the story. One example in particular is the scene in which Petruchio and Kate are returning to Padua. Petruchio points out how brightly the moon is shining‚ in the middle of daytime. Kate then corrects him‚ but Petruchio then tells her‚ “It shall be moon‚ or star‚ or what I list.” (Shakespeare). Kate listens and then agrees that the sun is indeed
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long ago in a galaxy a bit closer to home‚ George Lucas crafted one of the most iconic movies of all time. That movie was soon followed by a series of mind bending movies that captured the hearts and minds of generations up to this day. From light saber duels to the destructive power of the Death Star‚ Star Wars is one movie saga that we are all familiar with. But how did this captivating series come to be? How did it all begin? Just how did George Lucas come up with such brilliant ideas for Star Wars
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position of African Americans within society as well as their fight for civil rights. Faulkner employs his ideas through the thoughts of a sixteen year old boy named Chick Mallison‚ who embarks on a journey to prove the innocence of his black friend‚ Lucas Beauchamp. Chick’s light skin color prematurely determines his role in society‚ deeming him superior to those of a darker color. In accordance‚ the members of society constantly remind him to assert his dominance with every African American he encounters
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How does Shakespeare present marriage in the Taming of the Shrew? In The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare is using Kate and Petruchio’s relationship to present marriage as something women should not aspire to‚ this is different to the conventions of other comedies‚ for example; in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing the two characters dislike each other but become better people through love and marriage. Apart from this ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ does seem to have many of the conventions that
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farmer named Marais Van der Vyver. One day he is out hunting with his twenty-year-old farmhand‚ Lucas. While they are out hunting‚ Van der Vyver drives over a pothole in the road and the gun‚ which lay beside him in the cab‚ goes off and shoots through the roof and into Lucas’ brain. He is killed instantly. Afterwards we are told how the outside world will view the incident and in the end we find out that Lucas was not only a farmhand‚ but also Van der Vyver’s son. The main character in this short story
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relate this gruesome glimpse into my subconscious because I know precisely when the dreams began. It was eight years ago‚ when a professional player — a former NFL defensive lineman — suffered a fatal spine injury on the field. His name was Al Lucas and he played defensive tackle for the Arena Football League’s Los Angeles Avengers. He died on the hard carpet of the Staples Center eight years ago this week‚ on April 10‚ 2005. He was 26 years old. No‚ he wasn’t torn asunder by opponents. Instead
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How Star Wars Changed the World George Lucas was a young Hollywood director in the mid-1970s that had the opportunity from 20th Century Fox after his hit movie American Graffiti to create his own original space adventure movie that will soon be known as Star Wars. It has been forty years since Lucas has transported us to a “Galaxy Far‚ Far away.” The huge blockbuster franchise movie that we all know as Star Wars has truly changed the film industry‚ special effects and pop culture with just a draw
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As a teenager‚ Lucas’ mother was a prostitute and caused him to hate women by forcing him to be a bystander while she performed sexual acts with various men. This was ongoing occurrence for years‚ but as Lucas got older he would often go home late or not go home at all in hopes of missing this common practice of his mother’s. There would be consequences once Lucas did return home for missing his mother’s acts such as beatings. His first crime
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setting and the characters‚ with few changes to the basic plot. The target audience is teenagers‚ and all the major characters are also teenagers and are all in high school‚ making it much easier for the viewers to relate to them. The film is set in Padua Stadium High School‚ which is intended to be representative of a typical American high school. The film isn’t meant to be realistic and would be boring if it didn’t dramatise teenage life‚ but at all times it retains the suspension of disbelief. The
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