Psychoanalytic Criticism on Featured Film‚ Star Wars A Myth-Freudian Criticism Star Wars is a classic movie written and directed by George Lucas that encompasses a vast array of archetypes and phallic/yonic symbols that yield fascinating "between the lines" interpretations. An analysis of such archetypes reveals a great deal of what the main characters are thinking. The synopsis of the movie is as such: The story commences with Princess Leia escort ship being boarded by Empire in hope to
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Star Wars fulfils the Sociology function‚ By representing a social class and showing terms of wealth as in who has the most power. People for centuries have set up a social classes based on; Strength‚ Money‚ Parents‚ and your accomplishments. A lot of this system is flawed because what it intends to do is to keep the poor poor unless they know how to use their talent and increase their standing amongst the people. This is represented in The First Order and The New Republic. In the first order you
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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
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“The Origins of Star Wars” Not so 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
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Movie Review “May the force be with you” is a quote that people of all ages know. Even people that grew up years after Star Wars was shown know what a light saber is. Star Wars was the first movie of its kind‚ using technology never used before to rise above the other movies and set a high standard so other movies can follow. Admittedly‚ the setting for star wars is very vague and unspecific having been said that the movie takes place a long time ago‚ in a galaxy far far away but the storyline
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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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Essay on Star Wars “Aren’t you a little short for a storm trooper?” (Lucas New Hope 40). Rings a bell‚ doesn’t it? This is one of the many quotes and a memorable one from Princess Leia in George Lucas’s saga Star Wars. Lucas had created an all American myth and was the first to do it. His movie saga used every archetype known to man and was inspired by the book The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. Campbell’s book also had every archetype known to man in it. It affected an innumerable
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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 made robots stick in the imagination of people with droids such as R2-D2 and C-3PO (“Robot Facts”). Robots in Star Wars assist the main characters in the movie. Robots are essential to the world. The first electronically controlled and customisable robot was created by George Devol in 1954. This led to the basics of the robotic construction seen today. Commercial and industrial robots are currently in global utilization performing jobs cheaper or with better precision and consistency than
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Does One “Star” Out Shine the Other? Star Wars and Star Trek are both highly recognized as the two science fiction teams that battle it out‚ on and off screen with the fans determining which one is best. Constant debates about which one is better or worse then the other. How they have very similar stories‚ or that they are polar opposites. The two franchises have many similarities‚ including the word ‘Star’ in their respective titles‚ while they have similarities Star Trek and Star Wars are vastly
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