|
star wars princess
Star Wars is a science fantasy saga and fictional galaxy created by writer / producer / director George Lucas during the 1970s. more...
 Home
Action Figures
 anakin skywalker star wars
anakin star wars
battle star wars
darth vader star wars
death star wars
empire star wars
george lucas star wars
han solo star wars
imperial star wars
lego star wars
lego star wars 2
luke star wars
obi wan star wars
original star wars
pictures of star wars
rebel star wars
star trek wars
star wars
star wars 1
star wars 1977
star wars 2
star wars 3
star wars 6
star wars action figure
star wars action figures
star wars attack of the...
star wars battlefront
star wars birthday party
star wars boba fett
star wars books
star wars ccg
star wars character
star wars characters
star wars chewbacca
star wars clone wars
star wars clones
star wars com
star wars comics
star wars convention
star wars conventions
star wars costumes
star wars creatures
star wars darth
star wars darth maul
star wars droid
star wars droids
star wars dvd
star wars emperor
star wars empire strikes...
star wars episode
star wars episode 1
star wars episode 2
star wars episode 7
star wars episode i
star wars episode iii
star wars figure
star wars figures
star wars force
star wars galactic
star wars galaxies
star wars galaxy
star wars gangsta
star wars hasbro
star wars hoth
star wars ii
star wars iii
star wars jedi
star wars jedi knight
star wars kenner
star wars kid
star wars knight
star wars knights of the...
star wars kotor
star wars leia
star wars lightsaber
star wars luke skywalker
star wars millenium falcon
star wars miniatures
star wars minis
star wars movie
star wars music
star wars news
star wars picture
star wars pictures
star wars poster
star wars princess
star wars program
star wars queen
star wars r2d2
star wars racer
star wars rebel strike
star wars republic commando
star wars return of the jedi
star wars revenge of the...
star wars rpg
star wars saga
star wars ships
star wars sith
star wars sound
star wars sounds
star wars stuff
star wars teaser
star wars theme
star wars toy
star wars toys
star wars trilogy
star wars unleashed
star wars vader
star wars vehicles
star wars weekends 2006
star wars yoda
stars wars
vintage star wars
x wing star wars
Art
Books
Clothing
Collectibles
Crafts
DVDs & Movies
Everything Else
Home & Garden
Jewelry & Watches
Memorabilia
Music
Toys
Video Games
The saga began with the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope), which was released on May 25, 1977, by 20th Century Fox. The film became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon - spawning five more feature films, three spin-off films, five television series and an extensive collection of licensed books, comics, video games, action figures, trading cards, card games, and other products - all of which are set within a fictional "galaxy far, far away."
An example of the space opera genre, the Star Wars story employs archetypal motifs common to both science fiction and mythology, as well as the romantic music motifs now often associated with those genres.
Feature films
Although The Ewok Adventure, later renamed Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, played in theaters in Europe and Australia and is technically a Star Wars feature film, it is generally associated with television, therefore it is covered in the television section below.
Setting
- See also: Star Wars opening crawl
Unlike the traditional science fiction films preceding it, the Star Wars world was initially portrayed as dirty and grimy, rather than sleek and futuristic. In interviews, Lucas tells of rubbing the new props with dirt to make them look weather-worn, a concept he has referred to as "a used or ancient future", a concept further popularized in the film Alien of the same era. He may have been inspired by Sergio Leone, whose 1960s films performed a similar function for the Western genre. It is also possible that he may have received the idea from Akira Kurosawa, who believed that it gave his actors a more authentic look.
Each Star Wars film opens with the text, "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...." Lucas intended this as an allusion to the classic fairy tale opening of, "Once upon a time, in a faraway land..." This is the only way the Star Wars Galaxy has been defined in relation to the real world. To some, Lucas's allusion suggests that the films are to be interpreted as allegorical and metaphorical narratives of the future, rather than literal events of the past. Lucas intentionally left the details open to interpretation. Events occur in the Star Wars galaxy; although the film series itself spans the events of only two generations, other stories set in the Star Wars universe (those from the so-called "Expanded Universe") cover events that span millennia.
The Star Wars films use an opening text to provide the audience with the background to the story. Lucas emulated the Flash Gordon serials by having his opening text "crawl" up the screen from bottom to top at a high pitched angle, as if the text were disappearing into the distant starscape. Also in all Star Wars films, a starship of some kind whooshes by after the crawl disappears completely. In a May 15, 2005, interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, Lucas described the creation of the distinctive crawl: "The crawl is such a hard thing because you have to be careful that you're not using too many words that people don't understand. It's like a poem. I showed the very first crawl to a bunch of friends of mine in the '70s. It went on for six paragraphs with four sentences each. Brian De Palma was there, and he threw his hands up in the air and said, 'George, you're out of your mind! Let me sit down and write this for you.' He helped me chop it down into the form that exists today."
Read more at Wikipedia.org
|
|
