PART I: Musical Style and Development in the Star Wars Universe John Williams, and the Musical Qualities of Star Wars John Williams has been attributed for the revival of the classical Hollywood system of film composition, based on his late-Romantic compositions for large orchestra in the Star Wars film franchise. Traditionally, composers used early science […]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens American film director, J.J. Abrams set out to return to the roots of the first Star Wars film and be based more on emotion than explanation with a smooth transition. Abrams felt that the film “needed to take a couple of steps backwards into a very familiar terrain” and use […]
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Get startedAlmost everyone is familiar with those iconic words before every Star Wars movie. And in the time of greatest despair there shall come a savior, and he shall be known as THE SON OF SUNS.’ Journal of the Whills, 3:127 No? Doesn’t ring a bell? Oh, that’s right, that wasn’t in the final draft. Here […]
Throughout the 1900’s, communism took the world by storm as it spread through Europe and Asia. Karl Marx wrote about the widespread ideology in his greatest work of writing, The Communist Manifesto(1848), and declared that all property in society should be equally owned, and payment would be dealt according to his or her abilities and […]
Star Wars represents a simplistic view of the conflict of light versus dark. The black and white morality with good guys, such as Luke and Leia wearing bright fair colors, while the villains, such as Vader wearing all black, are the first visual color motifs and cues that the Star Wars films rely on (Campbell). […]
Star Wars is more than just cinema. Beyond technological feats, lightsaber fights and the often promoted marketing venture, the saga created in the late 1970s by George Lucas conveys values and messages that reflect social, political, and even religious concerns. One of the concerns that Star Wars raised in the original saga is gender inequality. […]
The Odyssey sets the standard for many modern-day epic stories. There are many examples of this, however, focusing on Star Wars, this becomes quite evident Every epic has a plot around A Hero’s Journey. There is a theme for the film that has an acronym, G.O.E.S. Which stands for Glorified, On a Quest, Ethical, and […]
The movie, Star Wars, is about the struggle for control of the galaxy between the Rebels, representing the old Jedi Republic, and the Imperial Empire. The movie opens with a rebel space ship being stopped, boarded, and seized by Darth Vader and the Galactic Empire. Previously, the galaxy was a republic. After a war and […]
