The White Color Archetype In Star Wars

Throughout the past four decades, the Star Wars movie series by George Lucas has become one of the most popular fantasy series around the world. The movies depict the saga of Luke Skywalker, a young Jedi warrior who is talented, ambitious, and unyielding. However, he unexpectedly vanished after he defeated the villains; thus his sister Princess Leia led an expedition to both find Luke and protect the galaxy. Although Star Wars is a space opera, but similar to the movie Pan’s Labyrinth, it blends some unique qualities with technology —the mystical color archetypes. Among various colors, the color white is not only used to represent purity, peace, and innocence but also evil, death, and destruction. Throughout Star Wars, the white color archetype appears several times and plays a vital role since the color white establishes the audiences’ impression of purity to Princess Leia in a visual but subconscious way, and imply the evil traits of the stormtroopers for the readers as the author intended. All the way through Star Wars series, the white color archetype appears multiple times in the movies. Typically, the white color associated more with the ethical characters rather than immoral characters. For example, in fig.1, the protagonists Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Han Solo are all represented in white clothes; however, the archetype …show more content…
Moreover, it helps the audience to interpret the common characters in the movies. Hence, the white color archetype acted as a vital role in Star Wars since it appears several times, controls the audiences’ cognition on Princess Leia in a visual but subconscious way, and imply the evil traits of stormtroopers for the audience as the author intended. In brief, just like Joseph Addison has said, “Colors speak all