Star Wars: A New Hope

The movie saga “Star Wars” seems to be known by many as the movie that “created” tThe sScience fFiction film genre and is claimed to be unique, but there are many similarities between the seven main films. During your time in the class, “History on Film B” you will watch eventful movies based on different genres that define that genre and their time period. My class had the genre of “Science Fiction” and we watched two Star Wars movies, one of them being “Star Wars: A New Hope” which came out before the newest one, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” In the movie, “A New Hope” a evil power called the Siths rise to power and plan to take over the galaxy unless one person, the newest and soon to be most powerful Jedi, Luke Skywalker defeats them. Also, the movie “The Force Awakens” has a similar plot where an evil force called “The First Order” rises to power and a new Jedi named Rey must stop them.
For example, there is a scene in “A New Hope” where Rebel forces are trying to destroy a ship called the “Deathstar” which is owned by the Siths and is set to destroy the Rebel base. The only way to destroy the Deathstar is to shoot and destroy its power source. Similarly, there is a scene in “The Force Awakens” where the Rebel Alliance once again needs to destroy a machine called the “Starkiller” which is again set to destroy a Rebel base and the only to destroy it is to destroy the power source. Not only this, but the plot twists are also similar. In the movie, “A New Hope” there is a Jedi named Obi-Wan Kenobi, Obi-Wan is a very important character who guides Luke to fight the Siths, Obi-Wan eventually gets killed by the Siths while fighting them. On the other hand, there is a very important character in “The Force Awakens” named Han Solo who guides the newest Jedi, Rey, to fight the First Order and while doing this, gets killed by the First