According to legendary boxer Sugar Ray Robinson, “To be a champ, you will have to believe in yourself when no one else will.” The importance of believing in oneself is illustrated in George Lucas’s Star Wars IV – A New Hope in which Luke Skywalker, a tentative teenager, is thrust into a new life of adventure and self-cultivation after stumbling upon a plea for help in the form of a message embedded in a droid he purchased named R2D2. To that effect, when analyzing George Lucas’s film from a Jungian perspective, Luke’s individuation becomes apparent through his development from a self-doubting and indecisive teenager into a decisive leader capable of channeling the power of the “force.” Luke’s attainment of higher consciousness is showcased …show more content…
Princess Lea is an independent woman who is not afraid to get her hands dirty. In fact, as a ruthless Darth Vader’ invades her ship in the beginning of the film, she calmly transfers a critical message, the plans of the death star, into R2D2 who is jettisoned from the ship in an escape pod. Indeed, such quick thinking represents Lea’s cunning which she will inevitably transfer onto Luke. In fact, Princess Lea’s effect is seen on Luke when he finds out that she is being held prisoner in the death star. Instead of listening to Han’s cries to stay inside the control room, Luke takes initiative by attempting to rescue Lea. Thus, this moment represents a stepping stone for Luke, who shows his first signs of self-dependence by breaking free from the chains of his indecisive nature. Moreover, Lea, to an extent, also represents the romantic anima, as Luke calls her “beautiful” upon first seeing her in the hologram from R2D2. Evidently, this serves as one of the root motivations behind his call to action. Lea’s influence on Luke is further demonstrated when they are forced onto a ledge with storm troopers in pursuit. Luke ingeniously devises a tarzan swing and swings across while under fire from storm troopers. This is reminiscent to Lea improvising in an earlier situation by blasting a hole in a grate in order to escape from storm troopers. Thus, Luke comes one step closer to realizing the …show more content…
Indeed, after leaving Tatooine on the Millennium Falcon, Obi-Wan teaches Luke about the force telling him to “let go of the conscious mind … and feel the force flowing through you.” (1:00:00). This serves as an important lesson for Luke’s final onslaught on the death star and plays a critical role in him reaching the Self. Indeed, until his death, Obi-Wan provides Luke with continuous guidance, thus representing his positive shadow, as he holds the qualities Luke needs to become a Jedi knight. Moreover, Obi-Wan’s connection with the force is demonstrated when he leaves Luke in the death star control room telling him that “your destiny lies along a different path than mine.” Indeed’ Obi-Wan already knows of his fate. He does not expect to get off the death star once again echoing such sentiments in his battle with Darth Vader where he says that “if you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine” (1:26). Furthermore, he harnesses the power of the force by becoming one with the force himself, or in other words, a force-ghost. Furthermore, during the rebel assault on the death star, Obi Wan communicates with Luke telling him to “use the force … let go.” As a result, Luke disables the targeting system on his fighter and destroys the death star using only the force, thus pointing to his newly found confidence. To
Nicole Hendricks USP 107 Final IDs Professor James Ingram. “Empire Strikes Back” Mayors Source: Lecture 18 Meaning: An “Empire Strikes Back” mayor refers to the white republican mayor that often times comes into office following a minority mayor. In cases such as the “Empire Strikes Back” mayor, the minority mayor has failed to hold forth to the issues that he intended to solve upon being elected. The minority mayor was elected in order to improve racial tensions. Yet, the minority mayor must somewhat “dilute” his stance in order to appeal to multiple ethnicities, rather than just his.
Each time that Luke is knocked down he keeps getting up and refuses to concede despite the social pressures coming from the crowd telling him to “stay down” since it 's not possible for him to win (Rosenberg 1967). Luke’s carelessness for his own life and need to cause trouble is an example of non-conformity.
It is amazing how in many stories a group of the most unlikely characters can overcome the most impossible odds. The battle of good vs. evil is reenacted in thousand upon thousand of movies. A lot of the times in these movies the group of heroes consist of very ordinary or odd characters, those who seem to possess few heroic traits. As seen in the movies Labyrinth and the first made Star Wars, a group of small and seemingly powerless characters can overcome great evils.
He is being forced to abide by the rules in prison and at first, does not get a warm welcome by his fellow prisoners because he refuses to abide by the captains order which is simply to get their minds right. He is soon challenged to a fight by one of his fellow inmates. Throughout the fight, it is clear that Luke is being brutally beaten. He can barely stand up on his feet but he refuses to give up. To me, this is a sign of resistance of power because he does not want to just face the fact that he lost this battle.
Luke’s eventual departure is set in motion by the purchase of two androids that were previously involved in the rebellion. Luke receives a call to aid in the form of a prerecorded message stored in one of the android’s memory. Luke finds a traveling companion and a teacher in Obi-wan Kenobi. Luke is hesitant to leave his home planet until the empire kills his Aunt and Uncle, leaving him no option but to fight. Luke’s next step is initiation.
Both also have a sort of supernatural force helping them, giving them an advantage over ordinary people. Luke learns the ways of the "force" which about three other people have mastered: Darth Vader who is evil, Obi-Wan his mentor, and Yoda (who he does not know yet). Bruce learns the ways of advanced ancient Ninjitsu and the ways of being one with the shadows. The two of them are also both very limited in their allies fighting against a world of evil. Luke is contained to Obi-Wan, Chewbacca, Han Solo, and eventually Leah. Bruce is limited to the few uncorrupt people in his city, Alfred, Mr. Fox, Jim Gordon, and Rachel. During the ordeal, both hero's have a long line of conflict that they must deal with. Bruce has to save Rachel, escape his on fire mansion, fight Ra's al Ghul, and then stop the city from going crazy from the gas. Luke must save Leia, escape a trash compacter, watch Obi-Wan die, escape Darth Vader's station, and finally come back to destroy it. A last similarity is that both hero's rewards made them realize what they were actually destined for. Luke
In Cool Hand Luke, the movie begins with the word, VIOLATION, across the screen. The word is from a parking meter and sets the tone for the entire movie. Luke Jackson, the title character, is arrested for cutting off the heads of the town’s parking meters while drunk, or in legal terms, for destroying municipal property while under the influence of alcohol. When asked why he cut the heads off the parking meters, Luke answers, “You could say I was settling an old score.” While it leaves the viewers believing that he probably received a parking ticket at some time in the past, no clues are given to what the old score may have been.
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.
“I want to come with you to Alderaan. There's nothing here for me now. I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my father.” With this statement, Luke Skywalker is already on his way towards a story that is both familiar and different to all heroes. He identifies with several reoccurring traits that many heroes are cast with. Luke is estranged from his natural parents and, as he gets older, finds himself anxious to pull away from his loving foster parents and become a man of his own.
Luke has flaws that make his views subjective instead of objective. Furthermore, Luke has a firm position that something miraculously exhilarating will give him a “‘life-altering experience’,” but when it doesn’t occurs, he becomes despondent (9). This shows one of his major flaws of assuming and expecting, but not acting upon the event for the dreams he wishes to be. Consequently, the resulting disappointment from expectations makes him feel “less like a soldier and more like [he] was going trick-or-treating dressed as a soldier” (4). He becomes overly critical of others as well as himself for joining for “all the wrong reasons,” yet never explains what the right reasons are (3). The closest actions the reader will receive depends on Luke’s desire to do anything. The author utilizes Luke as the narrator to effectively parallel Luke’s ordinary life to the expected dramatic life Luke wishes for. The similarity of the two situations is Luke’s lack of effort to better himself. In Luke’s recent years, he earned an associate degree, landing him an office job; however his pessimism and laziness to put in effort to better himself, such as going back to school for a bachelor’s degree in order to acquire a more entertaining job restrains him. His attitude towards his
Though Dragline had the physical advantage, Luke persevered through the beatings and had even said that he would have to be killed to be stopped. Moreover, Dragline is unable to defeat Luke and he is not allowed to kill him either. Coincidentally, Dragline leaves the ring in defeat, thus showing the whole prison that Luke has the superior authority and influence and therefore becoming the new leader (Pierson et al., 1997). Luke attempts to show that if you endure the challenges of petty authority and power [representation of Dragline], you will come out victorious and that you don’t need anything more than ‘nothing’. One of the most crucial lines of the film, spoken by the Captain, was, “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate’ (Pierson et al., 1997), and was said on behalf of the non-conformity Luke had portrayed by escaping prison.
Luke Skywalker from Star Wars: A New Hope is able to complete a task seemingly impossible by man. Although, at the beginning of the movie he seems very ordinary, he always had the want to be a jedi, like his father. When Luke found out he was not able to go to the fighter pilot school, his aunt said, “Luke’s just not a farmer, Owen. He has too much of his father in him.” This shows that Luke aspires to be a fighter like his father. You can infer that this is one of the reasons he agreed to fight The Empire. The task achieved by Luke is accurately shooting a proton torpedo into a small port of the “Death Star”, an enemy space station. This port leads to the reactor, and when shot, causes the station to explode. This mission was attempted by several other
The Novum presented in Starship Troopers is the rule of the Veterans and the resulting primacy of the military. This Novum sets the novel up as a utopic pandering to a readership demographic that the author himself is a member of. This is a normative sci-fi construction. Starship Troopers deviates in that the true target readership is the young man who has not yet been given a chance to join up. He is meant to gain a favorable understanding of the military man by sharing in his dream. The dream then - the world created – is the persuasive device.
Star Wars (1977) is one of the world’s most successful films of all time. It has made a terrific impact on popular culture since its release. Furthermore, Star Wars changed the narrative and aesthetic style of future Hollywood films. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, illustrates how cinema has evolved since Fred Ott’s Sneeze (1894). Ultimately, this essay will explain the set up of Star Wars and how it connects to cinema history, in the point of views of the: narrative and cinematic style, genre, auteur theory and the global film industry.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is much like a moral tale due to, that the movie shows the principles of right and wrong. Which conforms the standards of behaviours and the characters on those principles. Some characters are non-human (by our standards) which could be loosely perceived as talking animals, another common theme among moral tales. The movie also teaches morals that are imbedded psychologically which every watcher can understand in their own way. Morals are different in different ways in every person which is what makes Star Wars: The Force Awakens a fairly great moral tale since almost any viewer can relate in some shape or form to the movie and its characters.