Block 4-5B September 30‚ 2009 Star Wars and the Hero’s Journey In “Star Wars: A New Hope” created by George Lucas‚ the elements of the movie are very similar to those of Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With A Thousand Faces or “The hero’s journey”. This paper will describe how Lucas’s picture meets the elements departure‚ initiation‚ and return. Campbell describes all these elements in his book…the motivation for many of the themes and characters in that of Star Wars. “The point in a person’s life
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[pic] (Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith n.d.) Star Wars III DVD cover- Textual analysis Communication is imperative to the life of our culture. Fiske (1990:2) describes communication as “the production and exchange of meanings. It is concerned with how messages‚ or texts‚ interact with people in order to produce meanings”. All humans instinctively look for meaning amongst countless forms of texts all the time‚ whether it be in television commercials‚ friends ’ fashion sense or architectural
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films since Star Wars‚ with his latest film premiering last year. I’m so tired of the LFL brass and the media continually lying to us‚ and much of it has been tracked back to Disney by way of shills and astroturfers. Its surprising not only how quickly after the purchase of Lucasfilm‚ that everything that wasn’t the Original Trilogy began to be discredited; but also that this discrediting was so readily accepted. While Mr. Plunkett laid the ground work for the Prequel hate‚ the Star Wars Expanded Universe
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Star Wars is one of the greatest movie series this world has ever seen‚ and maybe ever will see for that matter. The original trilogy (A New Hope‚ The Empire Strikes Back‚ Return of the Jedi) has and always will be the first Star Wars‚ and because of that it will always hold a special place in many people’s hearts. But I also think that nostalgia has blinded people from seeing just how much better the prequel trilogy (The Phantom Menace‚ Attack of the Clones‚ Revenge of the Sith) really is. And I
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is a great tragedy. Although very well beyond the time of modern readers; Macbeth’s classical themes of betrayal‚ guilt‚ and revenge are still shown in most modern tragedies. The play of Macbeth seems to very similar to the modern sci-fi films Star Wars (Episode 1-6)‚ written and produced by George Lucas‚ for the sheer fact that both heroes of the stories turn to the dark side‚ which inedibility leads to their destruction. Although the main character‚ Macbeth‚ starts off as a good man eventually
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Star Wars One of the most important functions of film music is to create a mood or atmosphere so as to create an aural frame of reference for viewing visual images. As movies and television plays a major role in today’s society‚ film composers have become fascinated in creating meaningful musical film score by experimenting different elements of music in order to enrich‚ enhance‚ develop and dramatise movie action. One of the most popular and successful American orchestral composers of the
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The single-player aspect of Republic Commando takes you on three distinct campaigns during the Clone Wars-era of Star Wars. You’ll invade Geonosis‚ along with the rest of the Republic army‚ investigate a derelict starship‚ and assist the wookiees in fending off Trandoshan slavers on the planet of Kashyyyk. The campaigns are paced extremely well throughout the game‚ offering up new and interesting challenges at just the right junctures. Whether it’s hunting down and assassinating a Geonosian lieutenant
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playwright of Macbeth written by William Shakespeare in the 1600’s takes place in Scotland‚ Europe at Macbeth’s castle. The galactic‚ futuristic saga of Star Wars written in 1977 by George Lucas takes place all around the galaxy. Both big creations even to this day and have very similar characters. The character from Macbeth is Macbeth and from Star Wars is Anakin Skywalker‚ their personality traits favor a lot. Not only do these two parallel but the supporting characters were very similar. The characters
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there are villains even if they do not look to be evil. In the famous “Star Wars Trilogy”‚ Darth Vader is the main villain. In the cartoon “Spongebob SquarePants”‚ the main villain is Plankton. Lastly‚ in the “Spiderman Series” there are many villains but for this sake‚ Venom will be the villain. Not all villains are born to be evil‚ something makes them evil. In the end‚ villains can be found all around. In the “Star Wars Trilogy IV‚V‚IV”‚ there are many villains but the most memorable and iconic
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which will lead only to pseudo-arguments? Imagining someone who disagrees with you‚ explain why you think the question is arguable (or not) in a short written passage. 1. Are the Star Wars films good science fiction? This would probably lead only to pseudo-arguments because many people are fanatic when it comes to Star Wars. In addition‚ there are not accepted assumptions regarding what is good science fiction. You can never get people to agree on what makes “good science fiction.” 2. Is it ethically
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