Star Wars: Episode IV-A New Hope

George Lucas was born on May 14, 1944 in Modesto, California where he was raised on a walnut ranch. During his teenage years he became very interested in drag racing and wanted to become a professional race car driver. Those dreams faded when he got into a horrible car crash that preceded his high school graduation. He enrolled in the University of Southern California after attending Modesto Junior College where he became a film student. He made many films, one of which won first prize at the National Student Film Festival. In 1967, he got a scholarship from Warner Brothers to watch the making of Finian's Rainbow (1968). This lead him to make his own company, Lucasfilm, in 1972. Lucas started writing the screenplay for Star Wars: Episode IV- A New Hope from 1973 to 1974. Lucas was inspired by Flash Gordon and the Planet of the Apes films. For the visual effects that were needed in the movie he established ILM (Industrial Light & Music) as well as Sprocket Systems, later known as Skywalker Systems, to edit and mix the movie. Star Wars was turned down many time until it was finally picked up by 20th Century Fox (“George Lucas Biography” par. 1-3). “Lucas agreed to forego his directing salary in exchange for 40% of the film's box-office take and all merchandising rights.” (par. 3). 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

She is then taken hostage. R2 and C-3PO are separated during their escape from the imperial forces but are soon reunited when captured by Jawas scavengers. They are sold to Owen Lars, the uncle of a young Luke Skywalker. Luke finds a hidden message in R2 from Princess Leia when cleaning the robots. Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, R2, C-3PO work together to save the Princess. During this they end up helping the rebel alliance, and bring back justice and freedom to the