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RS 1118 Film Response Questions Prof. Hanson Star Wars IV: A New Hope 1. How does the film follow Joseph Campbell’s pattern of myth? If you think the film does not follow one of the criteria below, please explain why. 1)

Once the hero has received his Call to adventure, like George Lucas’s Luke Skywalker from Star Wars, they must go on to face their first challenge, the threshold guardians, which ultimately challenge their will to take on the burden of the task. For young master Skywalker, the threshold guardians come with guns. Shortly after young Skywalker receives his call to adventure, from R2-D2, the little droid disappears. When Luke finally locates R2, a group of warriors called Tusken Raiders strike at Skywalker, knocking him out. The sand savages scavenge through Luke’s vehicle, until Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi arrives scaring off the savages, saving Luke.

One boy with a dream that becomes a harsh reality? Everyone encounters dreams or goals in their life, but some never get to complete them. This young hero has a dream of being a pilot for the rebellion, but he gets more than he bargained for. This young hero is Luke Skywalker from the Star Wars series, the son of Darth Vader and the new hope of the rebel alliance. Throughout these movies Luke Skywalker demonstrates the “Hero’s Journey” clearly with a lot of detail.

Sylvester Stallone has a net worth of $400 million. He was born Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone in New York City, New York on July 6, 1946. Stallone is the oldest child of Frank Stallone, Sr. and Jacqueline Stallone; his brother is musician and actor named Frank, Jr.. He is a writer, producer, director, and an actor. He went to college at University of Miami, but dropped out to pursue a career writing screenplays.

Star Wars earned seven Academy Awards and broke all box office records. While Star Wars is based on western ideals, we have to ask ourselves; what exactly makes star

“The secret to film is that it 's an illusion” -George Lucas. In 1977 he created the movie “Star Wars.” 7 Star Wars is space adventure which broke box office records around the world and to get 20th Century Fox to approve the then-massive budget of almost $10 million, Lucas pitched Star Wars with a series of 21 drawings. In 1930 George Lucas created another very famous movie “Indiana Jones.” 8

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens is the triumphant return of Star Wars to cinemas. The last live action Star Wars film, The Revenge of the Sith, came out nearly eleven years ago. Since then the Star Wars franchise has created three animated series and three animated movies. The plot of The Force Awakens begins with a droid named BB-8 who has a map to Luke Skywalker.

In the year 2047, a global nuclear blitz erupted between the Earth’s most powerful nations in a furious dash for the little and precious remaining oil that remained in the Middle East. The bitter nemeses stopped at nothing to ensure that they were the victors of the avarice-induced bombardments to follow, which eventually led to the ultimate annihilation of the human race, barring a few astute survivors. The remainders only persevered through waiting in pre-constructed underground fallout shelters, which were isolated from the rest of humanity, save for their own select communities; they were powered only by geothermal means and sustained only by what their artificial greenhouses could procure. Forty-six of the fifty bunkers had fallen to disease, insanity, starvation, and rebellion over the centuries after. Of the four remaining by the year 2468, three more had been distinguished by cave-ins.

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The Star Wars is an epic space opera franchise that needs no introduction. The movie series has more cult followers than most religions. Beside being the cutting edge of CGI at the time, Star Wars was (is?)

For example, hearing that Ron barfed banana slugs when a spell went wrong doesn’t have as much of an effect as seeing the poor wizard throw up on the big screen. In the end, the films did rise up to the bar that the books had set. They were nominated for 12 Oscars, but didn’t win any. The first film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone earned $317 million and none of the other films beat this record until the release of of the final film, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Part 2, at over $60 million more than the first. Then, to contrast, five years later, a film based on the setting of Harry Potter (but earlier in time), written by Rowling, came out and earned less than every single film in the Harry Potter series (The Numbers).

Together, both movies generated a total of $176.3 million

This book follows the tale of Darth maul and what happened before he got cut in half. The start shows him on a lava planet and he says that he wasn’t even born on that planet. Then this guy in a masked hood comes to Maul and tells him that he is going to help and teach him to be a Darth because he was so strong. They started exercising Maul and while the droid was fighting him he grabbed the far away pole from the ground. When they ate the masked man(Sidious) told Maul about the people who used to rule with there names starting with either Darth or Sith.

That’s right. It took less than two weeks for Star Wars to gross $1 billion ($1.09 billion) – crossing the mark faster than any other film. The film has amassed a staggering $544.5 million on the domestic front alone ($546 million, foreign) – and as Star Wars continues to post these types of numbers, Avatar is sure to be shaking in its boots. Avatar grossed $2.7 billion ($2 billion of which came from foreign markets).

In Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope directed by George Lucas produced in the United States and released 1977 is an science fiction film that demonstrates the beginning adventure of a young man name Luke Skywalker who plays an important role of maintaining peace in the galaxy. He comes in contact with few friends on his quest to learn the force under a mentor he meets name Obi-Wan and struggles to progress throughout his training due to the antagonist, Darth Vader. Lucas had a goal to make this film culturally around space western as an element, but later was inspired to make it space fantasy. His pursuit in a western type of movie could have been inspired due to his interest in the 19th century culture.