Star Wars is an American space-themed multimedia series directed by George Lucas, which began with the 1977 film (Episode IV: New Hope). It has been spun off into various television and animation productions. Many other expansions were made out of Star Wars theme, including video games, comics, novels, and even theme-based areas like parks.
In 2012, The Walt Disney Company paid $4.05 billion to George Lucas for the rights to the brand. After that, Disney divided Star Wars into two primary categories: Star Wars Legends and Star Wars Canon, with Canon being the series’ “official” plot.
Star Wars: Plot
“A long time ago in a galaxy, far away,” where humans and many species of aliens coexist with robots. The Star Wars series shows the adventures of characters; space travel between planets is standard due to lightspeed hyperspace technology. The worlds range from opulent, world-spanning metropolia to deserts barely inhabited by savage tribes. Almost every biome on Earth and many imaginary ones has a Star Wars analog that is teeming with sentient and non-sentient alien species. Other celestial objects are also included in the series, like asteroid fields and nebulae.
Spacecrafts range from small starfighters to massive capital ships like Star Destroyers and space stations like the moon-sized Death Stars. There are also examples of telecommunication included, like Two-way audio and audiovisual displays, holographic projections, and HoloNet.
More details about the plot
George Lucas credited Star Wars’ enormous attraction to its mythology, which draws on thousand-year-old psychological patterns and roots of humanity. Lucas considered youngsters as the primary audience for such stories. Star Wars films are similar to Japanese Jidaigeki flicks and Roman mythology. Lucas has indicated that his objective with Star Wars was to build modern mythology based on the research of his friend and mentor, Joseph Campbell. He has also dubbed the first film’s resemblance to Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress a “homage.”
Unlike the pristine, futuristic worlds of earlier science-fiction films, the Star Wars films depict a universe full of filth and technology that appears to have been utilized for years. In interviews, Lucas stated that he rubbed the new props with dirt to make them appear weatherworn. Lucas may have been influenced by Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Western films from the 1960s, which served a similar purpose in the West many years before. It’s easy to think that this departure from standard science-fiction cinema impacted the emerging cyberpunk movement around 1984.
Cast and characters of Star Wars
The films’ casts include renowned performers such as Sofia Coppola and Keisha Castle-Hughes. Acclaimed performers who performed minor roles include Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Oliver Ford Davies. Professional models played non-speaking minor characters in the prequel trilogy.
George Lucas was looking for actors. Lucas had chosen an unknown cast against the advice of his buddy Francis Ford Coppola, who had cast The Godfather with prominent theatre and movie performers. Hundreds of actors and actresses auditioned for the three principal parts: Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Han Solo.
Burt Reynolds and Jodie Foster auditioned for the roles. Still, Lucas ultimately picked 25-year-old Mark Hamill (who had only worked on television) as Luke Skywalker and 19-year-old Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia, daughter of Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. Initially, Harrison Ford was disqualified for the character of Han Solo because he had collaborated with Lucas on American Graffiti, but he was finally cast.
Padmé Amidala
Padmé Amidala Naberrie is a fictional character in the Star Wars saga, played by Natalie Portman in the prequel trilogy. First tangentially referenced in Return of the Jedi, she is presented in The Phantom Menace as the youthful Queen of Naboo and, following her reign, becomes a senator and an anti-war activist in the Galactic Senate.
She secretly marries Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker before dying while giving birth to twins Luke and Leia Organa. Anakin’s dread of losing Padmé is the spark that drives him to the dark side of the Force and eventually leads to his transformation into Darth Vader.
Padmé’s critical reaction was divided; some admired her personal and political motivations, while others condemned her reversion to a story device for Anakin’s descent into the dark side. Portman’s performance also garnered mixed reviews, with some blaming it on Lucas’ directing and storyline.
Despite the conflicting reactions to Portman’s portrayal of the character, the role helped her attain international notoriety. Padmé has appeared in various Star Wars media, including The Clone Wars, and is one of the three main characters in the prequel trilogy.
How old was Padmé in Episode 1?
In episode 1 of Star Wars, Padme Amidala was 14 when she first met Anakin. When Amidala and Anakin first met, she believed the nine-year-old Tatooine kid was a charming yet educated young man. However, after the Naboo Invasion, Amidala had repaid Anakin’s friendship; she had assisted him in coping with the loss of his mother Shmi on Tatooine, while Skywalker had given her a jar fragment for her to have good fortune. After a lifetime of avoiding romance, she reconnected with Skywalker 10 years later and fell in love with him.
