May the 4th Be With You
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Geek History 101: Star Wars IV
So happy May the 4th be with you day everyone!
The Short : Star wars is a space adventure, in which we learn about a mysterious power known as the force and meet a father and son. It originally was released in the late 1970's and re released multiple times since 1997. May the Force be with you is a standard greeting between Jedi to so have a safe journey.
The Long : So you want to be more involved in the Geek Culture, yet you dont know much about Star Wars except it has glowing sticks. Well Star Wars is a space opera released originally in 1977. The first movie released was actually the fourth part in a six part story. Why would you make the first movie the fourth in a series? As George Lucas explains, over the years of writing the story he came to realize that he was writing the middle of a Saga. He had written out the entire saga of the Skywalkers and the Jedi Knights and realized he was writing the middle portion.
Anyway he went on to write this movie, with the intention that if it wasn't successful in the box office it would continue as a series of novels, which it did anyway, but we'll continue with that later. So George Lucas gave us a story about a young man who didn't know his father. His name was Luke Skywalker and he grew up not knowing much about his father. He then buys two droids from local alien vendors which conveniently contain a hidden message for a local Jedi master. Our good samaritan Luke decides he will take it upon himself to bring the droids message for help to the local Jedi.
It is here that every young boys dream comes to fruition. Every young boy dreams of waking up one day and finding out we were destined for more then we have been living and on top of that we have magical powers!
Luke finds Obi Wan Kenobi and they watch the recording on the droid which is princess Leia asking for help from the Jedi Master Obi Wan Kenobi as she has been captured. Obi Wan proceeds to inform Luke that the Jedi and the Force are real. He explains that Lukes father was killed by the evil leader of the Sith, Darth Vader. So to break this down, the force is a supernatural ability that both the Jedi and the Sith use. It allows them to do countless things, but is mostly displayed within the movies as being telekinesis, mind control, levitation, enhanced speed, enhanced jumping and the ability to shoot lightning from their finger tips. Throughout the history of Star Wars the idea behind the force is expanded on and added to, both for good and bad in the eyes of the geek culture, but we'll get into that later.
So the story continues onward as Luke ad Obi Wan are now on a quest to save the princess from Darth Vader and the Empire. Obi Wan explains to Luke that he has the same abilities as his father and that with the proper training he could also be a Jedi. Once again this is every young boys dream, now not only do I have powers, but I have a mysterious past and a quest to save a princess! IN SPACE!The Short : Star wars is a space adventure, in which we learn about a mysterious power known as the force and meet a father and son. It originally was released in the late 1970's and re released multiple times since 1997. May the Force be with you is a standard greeting between Jedi to so have a safe journey.
The Long : So you want to be more involved in the Geek Culture, yet you dont know much about Star Wars except it has glowing sticks. Well Star Wars is a space opera released originally in 1977. The first movie released was actually the fourth part in a six part story. Why would you make the first movie the fourth in a series? As George Lucas explains, over the years of writing the story he came to realize that he was writing the middle of a Saga. He had written out the entire saga of the Skywalkers and the Jedi Knights and realized he was writing the middle portion.
Anyway he went on to write this movie, with the intention that if it wasn't successful in the box office it would continue as a series of novels, which it did anyway, but we'll continue with that later. So George Lucas gave us a story about a young man who didn't know his father. His name was Luke Skywalker and he grew up not knowing much about his father. He then buys two droids from local alien vendors which conveniently contain a hidden message for a local Jedi master. Our good samaritan Luke decides he will take it upon himself to bring the droids message for help to the local Jedi.
Luke finds Obi Wan Kenobi and they watch the recording on the droid which is princess Leia asking for help from the Jedi Master Obi Wan Kenobi as she has been captured. Obi Wan proceeds to inform Luke that the Jedi and the Force are real. He explains that Lukes father was killed by the evil leader of the Sith, Darth Vader. So to break this down, the force is a supernatural ability that both the Jedi and the Sith use. It allows them to do countless things, but is mostly displayed within the movies as being telekinesis, mind control, levitation, enhanced speed, enhanced jumping and the ability to shoot lightning from their finger tips. Throughout the history of Star Wars the idea behind the force is expanded on and added to, both for good and bad in the eyes of the geek culture, but we'll get into that later.
This scene is also the first of many that many geeks consider "ruined by George Lucas." In the original airing of this movie you find Han Solo originally in a argument with a bounty hunter who is here to capture Han Solo and turn him over to Jabba the Hut for dumping cargo where he wasn't supposed to. The term "Han Shot First" came out of this scene. In the original Han shot Greedo after a little argument to prevent Greedo from shooting him. In the rerelease in 1997, George Lucas changed the scene to make it so that Greedo was shooting first and that Han was shooting in retaliation.
George Lucas stands by his statement that the change was to make sure children knew that Han had no choice but to shoot Greedo. Regardless of the change it has long been a argument of Star Wars fans that the change needs to be removed as it makes Han's change from anti-hero to hero less meaningful. Regardless, any good fan knows the truth, Han shot first.
From here Luke, Obi Wan, Han Solo and Han's co-pilot a furry teddy bearish alien named Chewbacca begin their journey to save princess Leia. They go to her home planet, only to find it destroyed by the Death Star. It is here that Obi Wan dies in a fight with Dark Vader and the final last ditch plan to destroy the Death Star comes into fruition. In the end of this battle Luke uses his new found powers with the force to destroy the Death Star himself by launching a torpedo into a small hole in the side, the space stations only weakness. From here the story continues into The Empire Strikes Back, but we'll get to that another time.
The reason that Star Wars is such a big deal in the geek culture is the whole idea of people discovering they have these abilities within the force is just fascinating to everyone. Its like a child's dream to discover your more then you seem to be and to have this grand destiny. The universe of Star Wars expanded out of this whole movie also into novels, comic books , video games and even rides at disney world. But now that we have gone over the idea's behind Star Wars episode IV we'll move onto the rest of them another time.
Also for the record, Star Wars is still a amazing property and the Imperial Deathstar will take out the Enterprise D anytime.
Oh and I also have beaten my current Xbox title that made me literally break a controller. DARK SOULS IS DOWN! I ended it with 735 Achievement Points completed and am currently plowing through my second play through to wrap up these achievements.
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| You defeated EVERYTHING. Isn't that translation amazing? |
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