finding himself through his journey. You may know of this story because there was a clue in the first sentence. Yes‚ this is the story of Luke Skywalker and his journey to become a Jedi knight. However‚ you may not realize that during the filming of Star Wars IV‚ the director worked very closely with Joseph Campbell. What is a mythologist doing on the set of one of the greatest science fiction of all time? Well Luke experiences what Campbell calls the Monomyth Cycle‚ during the movie. While Luke followed
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In the opening scenes of the movie Star Wars by George Lucas Princess Leia‚ who is a leader of the Rebel Alliance‚ has stolen the plans for the Galactic Empire’s new weapon‚ The Death Star. Leia has to get the plans off the ship so she records a message to Obi Wan Kenobi‚ an old jedi knight in hiding‚ and loads them onto a droid named R2D2. She sends him and another droid‚ C3P0‚ off of the ship on an escape pod which lands on the planet Tattooine. This is the home planet of the protagonist Luke Skywalker
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Star Wars: An Intergalactic Joyride "Star Wars" is the highest grossing movie of all time. It is also one of my favorites. It was released in May 1977 and re-released in a restored and enhanced Special Edition just last month. There are many different criteria that can be used to describe Star Wars ’ appeal. Gary Arnold and Edward Rothstein‚ two movie critics who had the opportunity to review this great movie‚ explain its appeal in very much the same way. There is a difference though
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because every time you tried you were stopped by some form of wicked luck? Well for you this task may be star-crossed which means that it is thwarted by wicked luck and opposed by the stars. Just think what it would be like to have a romance like this. Star-crossed romances have always been a popular topic of writing. For example‚ Dreamless‚ Starcrossed‚ and Reckless Magic. Most of the time all star-crossed romances follow a different plot for each story this is what makes each story individually unique
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Star Wars is one of the best modern epics of its time. Starting with the world famous "in media res..."(The story starts in the middle of the action‚ in media res‚ and at a critical point; the events that happened before the narrative’s opening are introduced later on.) It is an epic with a great hero‚ setting‚ and a lot of captivating action. Although many people still think that epics were only written in ancient times‚ interestingly enough‚ many great epics are still being written today. The
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“Twinkle Twinkle little star‚ how I wonder what you are” What if the people we look up to‚ just bring us down? What if our heroes actually destroy us instead of saving us? What if there’s nothing special about those ‘incredible’ people we idolise? What if… There comes a time in our life when we come across a fantastic person‚ who we think is perfect. Sometimes it’s a famous person and sometimes it’s just someone in our community‚ school or family. We want to talk like them‚ think like them‚ walk
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The Physics of Star Trek – Warp Speed “Engage.” One simple command that triggers an entire series of complex reactions deep in the core and within the warp nacelles of the Starship Enterprise. Engage implied not only a command to fly off into the unknown reaches of space‚ but also a revolution of thinking that combined fundamental physics with the innovative ideas of the future. Warp technology‚ as envisioned by the writers of Star Trek‚ can be linked to today’s world of physics: Newton’s third
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Star Trek the Space Seed In the episode of Star Trek‚ titled Space Seed by Gene Roddenberry‚ there are plenty of examples of science fiction. At the very start of this episode and almost every Star Trek episode you see the crew in a spaceship flying in space‚ called the starship enterprise. This is one example of science fiction because even though we have spaceships now‚ in Star trek they can somehow cancel out gravity so they don’t need to wear space suits like we do today. Also the starship
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western style characters? The score to the Star Wars movie broke all the traditional rules to writing music for sci-fi films. The Star Wars Main Title‚ introduces the idea of using the Romantic style instead of modernistic music for films. This choice reflects the composer’s influences from that musical period and features key musical elements that are easily remembered by audiences. In 1975‚ director George Lucas was ready to select the music for his new film Star Wars. Lucas had heard of the great modern
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David Anholzer 6/10/12 Willis Essay In the movie “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” music is used to enhance the mood of the film. All of the scenes in the movie had music to represent what was happening at that point. For example‚ Leitmotif is a term which came from German opera to represent a character‚ place or idea being used in that clip. Also through composed is used in the movie which is music that has common forward motion. Leitmotif is very influential on the movie because
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