Star Wars
Category
Action & Adventure / Fantasy / Science Fiction
Director
George Lucas
Cast
- Mark Hamill
- Carrie Fisher
- Harrison Ford
- Peter Cushing
- Alec Guinness
Release Date
27 October 1977
Synopsis
With the story beginning in medias res, Star Wars has the qualities of an epic, with heroic and powerful characters like Skywalkwer, Han Solo, and Obi Wan Kenobi fighting against an equally formidable opponent in the character of Vader. But at the end of the day, even with the fanciest, most advanced technology, Death Star and the Imperial army are defeated. Darth Vader is temporarily displaced and the heroes are welcomed back to Yavin with a glorious ceremony.
Star Wars became a huge hit in the seventies because of its classic good-triumphs-over-evil plot. With spectacular effects, strange setting, and weird alien creatures, Star Wars makes a viewer stop and marvel at "the Force," as seen through the epic hero Luke Skywalker. What Star Wars is really all about is the celebration of the human spirit, that which compels one to do good and to battle evil; and George Lucas puts this basic idea so skillfully in a world of fantasy and adventure.