George Lucas's Star Wars: A New Hope

Ever since the release of film director, George Lucas’s epic science fiction opera, Star Wars: A New Hope in 1977. The cultural impact of the movie has grown tremendously over the last few decades. Star Wars is more than a movie. It’s a global phenomenon. Expanding into a franchise of animated television shows, comic books, expanded novels, toys, costumes, sequels, spin-offs, and novels. It’s a multi-billion dollar business, presenting a following of ultimate fandom, very few films have accomplished such a feat. Since its 40 years of existence as a pop cultural entertainment icon, Star Wars has become an important part of American history. It’s undoubtedly the case that Star Wars changed the science fiction movie industry and cinema arts altogether.

As a result, George Lucas collected material, combined them, and transformed them. Creation requires influence, things people make such as movies for example are a preexisting creations of our lives and the lives of others. Star Wars affirms the abiding value of adventures, our human capability to share our love for film and rich character story arch’s. The melding of different genres, the equilibrium of optimism and realism, of fantasy and opposing sides, of honoring mythological archetypes created a story that during its nationwide release felt fresh and riveting. Star Wars is a fantasy film set in space, however it’s considered science fiction space opera. Thus, space opera takes many of its elements from adventure fiction. The genre itself involves plots, battles, characters, and powers on a massive scale, all of which encompass Star Wars. It’s little bit of both of science fiction and fantasy. Calling Star Wars “sci-fi” dismisses its fantasy themes, such as the Force; but calling Star Wars only “fantasy” ignores its cosmic setting and sci-fi touch. Spanning across four decades, it has become the modern mythology upon which no other subsequent genre in the film business can rest. It created a movement as being one of the most important single franchises. As a result, Star Wars was an incredibly prominent film that revolutionized the film industry and without the films the preceded it, there would be no