Thanks to the cultural influence Of George Lucas’ Star Wars there is not a director in Holly. Voodoo that doesn’t look to cash in through other forms of movie sales. In late 1975 George Lucas began directing something that would soon become one of America’s biggest works of the 20th century. Firstly, it is apparent that Star Wars has gained a place in Western culture verbiage. This is evident of the fact that Star Wars is easily referenced. Much like the Bible and Greek Mythology, Star Wars has characters that are easily defined and referenced without much trouble.
It is this popularity that has driven Star Wars to the top of American popular culture. After all what other movie has ever displayed as much iconic reference as the Star Wars trilogies. Go any. Veer and there is an understanding of characters such as Dearth Evader and Luke Smaller among others. Everyone has been introduced to these names at some point and so they can reach a level of understanding when the name is heard. Along with the characters in Star Wars there is a basic understanding of plot, Star War; defined the good versus evil and so the story is easily told almost similar to a airy tale.
Lucas’ ability to create a movie that speaks to all levels has helped its uprising in popular culture. Some have even called it the most advanced fairy tale (Wastrel)_ But beside all of that Lucas was really creating much more than an iconic fairy tale. Moreover he was creating an empire. Similar to Italian Mob or Disney, Star Wars took over a culture. The only difference was that the Mob and Disney were large organizations Star Wars was just a summer movie. It turned out to be much larger however due to its centralization. By the early ass Star Wars was a cultural icon.
Its advertising was on the side of buses and on billboards in Southern California. Action figures, comic books, even lunch boxes were made in the name of Star Wars. The name was everywhere, something that was rare for a movie of that time, But by the early ass Star Wars proved to be much more than a movie. The movie was what people paid to see and the movie is what brought in the fans but the publicity on the side is what made Star Wars cultural, George Lucas’ Star Wars saga has had a significant impact on modern global pop culture, Its influences on culture have shaped the way Western society views many movies today.
Science fiction will forever hold on to similar visuals and sounds and productions that the Star Wars trilogies experimented with. In fact after 1977 it is tough to watch a science fiction movie without seeing some traits of Star Wars. So if Star Wars was the iconic genius for every movie why does Unborn author John Seabrook seem to dismiss the Star Wars empire’seabrook takes a stance on George Lucas’ empire like no one has in the past. He describes Lucas’ Star Wars as a type Of thief. Hollywood at the time Of the 1977 release was a place where there was little reach for creativity.
Movies were produced the way the money wanted it to be produced. The big time people in Hollywood wanted films to be cut and dry and certainly not over the edge. George Lucas was a small director With no power when it came to critiquing the movie industry, so he, in turn, began writing the Star Wars script in order to gain more independence. Within months of its release Star Wars turned the movie business into a merchandising business, and as a result, “a movie as fresh and unknowing as Star Wars’ couldn’t get made 20 years later,” according to Seabrook.
At the time of the 1977 release, Star Wars became a new and innovative film. Seabrook is right when he said that the film was successful because of timing. Lucas had captured something new and seemingly realistic. But he himself never could have imagined the success he endured. Seabrook hints that Lucas, who once set out to make his independence, now becoming his own powerful self. The thing he had set out for in writing Star Wars was to have freedom to write. Freedom from the big guns of Hollywood, Now Lucas himself had become one of those big guns that controlled all the money.
Seabrook describes Lucas as “the first of the great content robber barony’s He has built up his fortune and is completely content with Hollywood failure. In concluding, Star Wars might be the pinnacle of the film industry. It gave us our first look at the film industries use of centralization. Never before had a movie been So big that it was selling millions Of dollars a year on things such as pencils and stickers with the Star Wars name on it. It showed what a movie is palpable Of and how much advertising affect can have on the general public.
However through its success on the big screen Star Wars according to Seabrook is just another Hollywood get rich quick scheme. George Lucas sits on an empire worth 20. 1 billion dollars (Wastrel) and controls a great deal of the Hollywood market. However the concern for the small directors, as he too was once, is not evident. In fact he continues to rake in money and oversees his thousands of “workers”. The Star Wars empire has been overcome by something it sought out to fight in the beginning too much power,
