Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

entire chase scene has the tempo set very high and the music is fast lending itself to the frantic chase that is happening on the screen. The music takes a slight tempo break leading to the belief that the heroes just escaped. Then the tempo picks back up and the bicycles are being chased again the strings start the feverish playing and amp up the tempo and dreadful mood. Then in the final chase scene the cars are in front and behind and all seems to be lost, Then when E.T. levitates the heroes…

“Star Wars Force Awakenings” Forced Me to Stay Awake All Night to Finish it, and I Loved it. (Movie Review) Characters in the movie Refresher of the last movie Basic one sentence summary of movie If you are a big fan of the entire Star Wars franchise then you are going to like “Star Wars The Force Awakenings”. It’s Basically a movie that takes place far in the past in a different galaxy with future technology. So if you need a bit of a refresher this takes a few decades Into the future from…

The book Star Wars: Thrawn by Timothy Zahn is a well written book about Thrawn and Eli Vanto, two soldiers in the Imperial Navy. It is a canonized twist on the story of a popular character, Grand Admiral Thrawn, in the Star Wars fan base after Disney bought Star Wars from Lucasfilm. (In this case, canon means what did or didn’t happen in Disney’s Star Wars universe, not Lucasfilm’s.) Eli Vanto wanted to be a supply officer in the Imperial Navy, but on an assignment to a backwater planet, his…

story we see that Odysseus can be characterized as the hero who is intelligent and curious. The movie Star Wars - A New Hope shows us Luke Skywalker’s journey to rescue Princess Leia and discover “the force.” In the movie Luke can be characterized as brave, courageous and quick thinking. In Homer’s The Odyssey, Odysseus is the archetypal “hero” going on a journey, full of adventure, similarly in Star Wars - A New Hope, Luke Skywalker is the archetypal “hero” who also goes on a journey.…

I will be carefully studying a fifteen second teaser for the third trailer developed for the movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This film is set “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away”. It has been thirty years in the Star Wars Universe since the conclusion of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and the galaxy has changed much in this thirty year time skip. The evil Galactic Empire has collapsed and its remnants have reformed to establish a successor organization called The First Order…

same basic storyline. Star Wars: A New Hope and Arthurian Legend both have a very similar storyline; however, there are a few differences. The Force and the Holy Grail are both something that people are trying to find. Han Solo and Lancelot are both main characters but they have very different endings. Star Wars: A New Hope and Arthurian Legend are similar because they both have something that the main characters are trying to find, but they are different because in Star Wars: A New Hope there…

Welcome to the Dark Side (Still deciding on an opening sentence) In the first episode of Star Wars the Phantom a Menace Qui-Gon Jinn, a Jedi master and his young padawan Obi Wan kenobi are sent to Naboo as ambassadors to negotiate a deal with the trade federation in hopes to end the blockade. Negotiations ended badly causing them to flee and they met a Gungan named Jar Jar Binks while running through the jungles of Naboo. Jar Jar took them to the hidden underwater city called Otoh Gunga to keep…

Enslaved or Empowered Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi (1983) is part of an iconic franchise and includes the infamous slave Leia. When Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) is captured by Jabba the Hutt she is forced to wear a metal bikini while chained to Jabba himself. Earlier this year Disney was rumored to be taking the slave Leia merchandise off store shelves. This could be due to the sexually revealing nature of the outfit which contradicts Disney’s more family friendly orientation. However, many…

Rey Kenobi Theory In the recent film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, many have surmised that the protagonist Rey, is Luke Skywalker’s daughter. In this essay, I will argue that Rey is not his daughter, but is in fact Obi-Wan Kenobi’s granddaughter. The reasons supporting this theory are, Maz Kanata implying that Luke is not a part of her family tree, the aura Rey emits is more powerful than a Skywalker 's, thus leading to the theory that Obi-Wan is in fact, Rey 's grandfather. Rey is a 19 year…

Initiation Stages of Luke Skywalker Hero’s Journey Star Wars is an American franchise film that changed the movie industry in 1977 with the released of Star Wars Episode IV: A new Hope. The film was created by George Lucas and inspired by the Hero’s Journey concept. Star Wars, it’s the perfect example of the Hero’s Journey. An ordinary hero who was called to adventure, experiences trials, loss, sacrifice, heroic moments, finds his purpose, and comes back with the ultimate boon. The film focuses…