"Luke Skywalker has returned to his home planet of Tatooine in an attempt to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of the evil gangster Jabba the Hutt.? So begins?The Return of the Jedi. This sentence seems to explain the meaning of the title, but there are...
The Empire Strikes Back begins on a seemingly dead ice planet, Hoth. The bleakness of the planet is contrasted with the warm relationship which has evolved among the four main protagonists. Although Leia is furious that Han is planning to leave, their conflict only...
As I mentioned in a previous article, when Star Wars came out in 1977, it was a ?breath of fresh air in that cynical era.? Although many are convinced that America (and the world at large) has gone to ?hell in a handbasket? in the past thirty-eight years, it could be...
Anakin Skywalker turns to the Dark Side. Why? The simple answer you may take away from this movie is that Anakin was afraid of losing Padm? because of the dreams he is having about her death. Darth Sidious has promised him the key to keeping her alive, so he turns to...
?The Dark Side clouds everything.? Yoda admits?to Chancellor Palpatine that he is unsure of what awaits them in the future. Senator Padm? Amidala has just returned to Coruscant, and attackers assault her ship, killing her decoy. Her company joins Yoda, Plapatine,...
As the world approached the third millennium, Star Wars movie fans were getting excited. After a decade and a half of waiting, we were finally going to get more details about the ?back story.? What we were about to find out would bewilder and confuse us a bit, and...
