Star Wars

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With Star Wars, George Lucas created an epic as grand as The Odyssey, an ongoing drama as popular with the masses as Shakespeare was in his day, and a universe as rich as any fictional creation ever invented.

He wanted both to return to the days of the Star Wars movie serial format which enthralled him as a youth, and to recreate a Hero's Journey in the Campbellian mode. And although the Star Wars serial took quite a while to reach its conclusion, it can be argued that he succeeded on both counts.

When farmboy Luke is called upon to perform a heroic mission, the journey transforms him into a Jedi Knight, an evil empire is overthrown, and a new order of justice and truth is re-established. There are echoes of karma, and fate, in Luke's progress to become 'a Jedi Knight like my father'. And when we discover how his father has fallen, and then how he is redeemed, the Star Wars saga takes a spiritual turn.

Lucas tells his story backend first, with Luke the son, then regresses to tell the tale of Anakin the father. This was, he says, because of financial considerations - if there was only going to be financial backing for one movie, he wanted to tell the first tale of Luke. Fortunately, the success of the first Star Wars movie made the others inevitable.

In this category, we explore the Lucasian universe of Star Wars, the movies, the characters, the milieu and the merchandise.

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