Blending Art,Science, and Fantasy in Star Wars

摘要

The Star Wars franchise began nearly 40 years ago with Episode IV: A New Hope (1977). I was not old enough to see a Star Wars movie in the theater by myself until Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983), and I remember that event very clearly. Characters from the first three films are so well known that it is hard to imagine a world without Luke, Leia, Han Solo, R2D2, Yoda, or Darth Vader. The language of the films even entered the political sphere when the missile defense program proposed by Ronald Reagan was dubbed the "Star Wars" defense system.