Obi-Wan Kenobi

Star Wars is an all time classic movie that influenced generations of fans with its characters, score, and editing that created a legacy unlike any film before. Star Wars had the luxury of an all star cast that gave a heart to a far off galaxy. John Williams incredible score was able to bring a futuristic movie to audiences with a classic feel. Although, it was the award winning editing team transformed Star Wars into the iconic film we have today. Together all of these factors made the story…

This essay will discuss the Star Wars universe from a structuralist view point discussing the use of stereotypical, monomyth narrative structures to represent the signified and myths of American culture. I will discuss the binaries of light, dark, alien, human, freedom, control and how there contrasting binaries relate to the negative arbitrary nature of signification. More specifically these differences of the paradigmatic and syntagmatic relationships in the movies depiction of plot, special…

The Hero’s Journey is a widely-used formula to understand protagonists and is the perpetual basis for most story arcs involving good vs. evil. The portrayal of the main character, as introduced, is that of an average joe. Someone that would otherwise be indiscernible in a crowd of extras. For example John Connor, Bilbo Baggins and Neo from the Matrix. The “commoner to hero” narrative is generally the basis for most hero beginnings given it creates a sense of relatability between the audience and…

talk and explain who he is. Anakin Skywalker later known as daar is a star wars fictional character he was born on the planet tatooine a dessert like planet when he was a little kid he and his mother were slaves. Two jedis named qui gon jinn and obi wan kenobi were stranded in tatooine and they their ship broke down they needed a way fix it. They went to a junk shop were anakin was working as slave they couldn't afford to fix the ship anakin told them that they could stay at his place to rest…

The Star Wars saga is such a phenomenon in American that it has become part of American pop culture. Just by references or symbols from the movie, people already connect it to The Star Wars trilogy.The Star Wars saga is well known and easily recognizable by everyone of different culture and has impacted the economy positively. Because of the concept of galactic fantasy, it made Star Wars sequels and prequels more more enjoyable to any age group. The saga is very appealing because of the…

action in the form of a gunfight. Both films also make use of a wise old sage type character who later dies, with The Phantom Menace killing Qui-Gon Jin and A New Hope depicting the demise of Obi-Wan Kenobi. And while Qui-Gon is an interesting and unique character, the audience still felt more at the death of Obi-Wan due to his higher involvement in his respective film, stronger character traits, and likeability. Despite these deaths, however, ach film also shares the traits of being the most…

The legacy of Star Wars still exists today partly because it was constructed by so many different philosophies and religions. The trilogy includes aspects of Taoism, Zen Buddhism, and even Christianity. Sometimes it is hard to find, but the teachings of Christ and the truth of the gospel are paralleled several times in the films in the morality of the Jedi and Luke Skywalker. With that, while the Force and Holy Spirit are alike, the Force is not the only small aspect of God in the films. Caleb…

interesting. The characters appeared to be missing… character. Then fans saw, in the opening sequence of Revenge of the Sith, there was banter. There were jokes, and even, to the surprise of many fans, feelings exchanged between Anakin Skywalker and Obi Wan Kenobi. You saw that these two, who’d we had been told were great friends, actually were. Unfortunately, once the opening sequence comes to a close, the movie returns to more poorly written dialogue between characters who people really don’t…

Have you ever heard of Star Wars? You probably have. It’s “a space opera film series (created by George Lucas) that became one of the most successful and influential franchises in motion picture history.” Starting in the late 20th century, and brought back at the turn of the 21st century, the Star Wars films continually advanced the field of special effects, and developed into a massive merchandising industry. Lucas’s success as director and writer with his previous films got him the support of…

played was extremely memorable. As mentioned earlier, Lucas called Star wars a modern fairy tale. Luke Skywalker is the main character through who we experience the Star Wars universe. A boy starting to become a man who gets involved with a wizard Obi Wan Kenobi,…