Erik Jong
Traci Wargo-Lehman
July 20, 2017
GP: To Persuade
SP: To persuade my audience why Star Wars, A New Hope is better than Star Wars The Force Awakens
CI: Episode IV, A New Hope, reigns supreme when compared to The Force Awakens because the audience sees a flawed character progress through the “hero's journey”, there is a breath of brains to the Empire, and the story to A New Hope was original.
Introduction
(Attention Getter)
“Many of the Truths we cling to depend greatly on our own Point of View”-Ben Kenobi
In today’s day and age, many do not love the classics like they use to. Most are looking for that great new story to be told that no one has thought of before, but guess what, Star Wars A New Hope was just that.
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“The old man gave it to you”(The Force Awakens).
However, even though Kylo Ren is a wimp, he was able to figure out where the map to Luke Skywalker was put, and where to find it.
However, when Ren sees that Rey, the main character, has see the map, he forgets about looking for the droid and takes her instead. This act was one of the most foolish acts he had done because he became unsuccessful in extracting this information from Rey, and she had escaped. Transition: We have talked about the main characters, and have talked about the Empire, now we move onto the originality. III. Each Star Wars film has been original with inspirations from other films before it however one stole from another film.
Star Wars, the original Star Wars 1977, or otherwise known as A New Hope, was original. There was nothing like it. 1. “Akira Kurosawa’s Hidden Fortress is one of George Lucas’ biggest influences” (cineleet.com) to Star Wars. Flash Gordon was also a major influence 2. Even though there were many inspirations that lead George Lucas to create Star Wars, it was something new, that none had known the story
However the film had some flaws. The beginning failed at establishing strong characters. Most of the characters in the film had no in depth personality and instead were just objects to push the story forward. On the other hand, the ending of the film was very effective. It lead well into the beginning of A New Hope. It ends with the rebels fleeing from Vader while A New Hope begins with Darth Vader boarding the rebels ship. Also the audience got an explanation to why the Death Star was so easy to destroy. Galen Erso designed the planet killer with a flaw in the the center of the star. This allowed the rebels to easily blow it up in A New Hope. Rogue One accomplishes its main goal of developing a story outside of the normal episodes in the
The “Star Wars” franchise is familiar to most, and may be the easiest in which to discover the hero’s journey. In “Star Wars,” we find young Luke Skywalker, a rebellious youth, living on a farm on the isolated planet of Tatooine, taken in by his aunt and uncle following the death of his mother and father. Luke grows up with dreams of flying through the stars, only dreams until his chance meeting with Ben Kenobi. Kenobi informs Luke of his real past: that his father was a Jedi knight and that Luke was destined to become great. Though Kenobi’s guidance and Luke own adventurous spirit, he finds himself pushed into an intergalactic quest to become a valiant Jedi in a galaxy controlled by the evil Empire.
In his article titled, “Star Wars and the Roman Empire,” Martin M. Winkler writes on Lucas’ trilogy and compares the storylines in the films to the Roman empire while placing focus on the similarities
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Far off in a distant galaxy an infamous story would begin, A New Hope. This episode is the one that began it all and lead to one of the most influential sagas of all time. Opening with the beautiful rebel leader Princess Leia, her ship undergoes direct attack from the known and feared villain, Darth Vader. He orders his troops to look about for important documents, meanwhile Leia says her famous message into R2-D2, a droid unit “Hel...
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Screenplay & Dir. George Lucas. Lucasfilm & Twentieth Century Fox, 1977. Film
Star Wars: A New Hope. Dir. George Lucas. Perf. Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford Carrie Fisher. DVD. Twentieth Century Fox, 2006.
Lucas the chance to make a foothold in the film industry, and he certainly did.
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