Many of the greatest stories in history (The Odyssey, Dante's Divine Comedy, Die Hard) teli essentially the same tale, A hero is called to adventure. He at first resists the challenge, then accepts. He heads off into the unknown, where he learns about himself, returning smarter, more self-aware, and newly able to take out terrorists two at a time. Star Wars Is this story, Luke, a whiny, insecure farm boy, ventures into the bowels of the Death Star, then returns with the self-possession to evade Vader and blow that moon-sized battle station to bits. Over the original three-movie arc, Luke faces his fear of succumbing to the same temptations that claimed his father and emerges stronger of will than even the goddamn emperor, who has bent the whole universe to his desires. % This, of course, is no accident.
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