STAR WARS

Star Wars revolves around a teenage Luke Skywalker bored with his lackluster, uninteresting life, and he longs for adventure and something more important than his moisture farm. A chance encounter with two droids leads Luke into a world of adventure.

This movie resonates loud for me. I wasn’t born when it came out in 1977, however growing up it was the first movie i wrapped my arms around and embraced as my favorite. It was an adventure story at its core and it was the kind of movie I liked and my parents could enjoy as well. Now things have changed in my view of the world and films in general. Being a film major in college, my eyes were opened to the vast amount of motion pictures made and how one can view films very differently. I’ve found Star Wars to be even more significant in this regard. When it came out in 1977, American Cineam was in a drought and many people weren’t excited about movies. Star Wars brought back the excitement and wonder of going to the movie theater. It reinvigorated a dying culture and brought a whole new audience to the theaters. It also changed the way movies were made. The technologies Lucas and his crew created are still in many cases the standard used today, and its lasting effect can be seen in the film industry today. A final note about Star Wars concerns the film score and sound structure overall. This score and sfx made this movie come alive. It was one of the first movies in which the score and the sfx were as important as the characters on the screen. The music resonates deep with each theme, and going to the theater to hear the large explosions and lasers was an amazing experience, not just a casual movie outing. It may not have been the best directed or acted film in the history of Cinema, but it is one of the most influential and important films of the post-code era.

BY: James Burke