Outside Reading for 7/1

Today in class we watched the movie Star Wars, Episode 4. I have never seen any star wars at all so I didn't really know what to expect. It wasn't a bad movie at all. I find things like this hard to follow because I'm not interested in space movies or battle movies...picky I know. One of the themes I noticed was when they were trying to rescue Princess Leia. The theme means the central idea or ideas that a play discusses. This is the main one in Star Wars when they are trying to save her from being killed. It was the whole reason Luke went looking for Ben Kanobi and they were battling all the droids. An incidental symbol is a thing or action that ordinarily would not have a deep meaning but acquires one in a particular story. I recognized this when Ben Kanobi told Darth Vader that if he did kill him the force would be stronger within him. I didn't understand it until they went to get on the ship and Luke saw Ben and Darth Vader fighting and Ben looked at Luke and let Darth Vader kill him. After that you could here Ben's voice inside Luke's mind helping him along the way. This is where the part comes in when Ben said the force would be stronger within him. Princess Leia's significance throughout the film is the fact that she knows what the bad guys want but she won't tell them. She plays an important part because she has valuable information Darth Vader wants. Princess Leia would be a protagonist because she is trying to protect her people. Her motivation could possibly have been a soliloquy when she was talking into R2D2 asking for Ben's help explaining what had happened on the ship. She was the only one talking and she was alone. I think this film reached its popularity because when it was first made it was something original and nobody had ever seen it before. The movie blended in so well with the culture. I liked the fact that they were on one planet and then followed R2D2 to another planet and it was kind of back and forth until they went to rescue the princess. The similarity between a shoot-'em-up adventure and an epic tale set in grand landscape is that there was always shooting. They all had "lightsabers" and used them in both settings. When they were at the bar and Luke told the droid to leave because his kind wasn't allowed they started shooting each other because they didn't like Luke. They sensed he was up to no good. On the ship when they were trying to avoid the bad guys, if they were caught they were shot at because they were trying to rescue the princess and to them it was bad and they were considered up to no good.