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Epic. Graffiti. 1. Preliminaries . Star Wars : A New Hope ( 1977 ) and The Empire Strikes Back ( 1980 ) , the first two movies in the middle trilogy of George Lucas's ambitious nine - part Star Wars saga , cover the boyhood and ...
Epic. Graffiti. 1. Preliminaries . Star Wars : A New Hope ( 1977 ) and The Empire Strikes Back ( 1980 ) , the first two movies in the middle trilogy of George Lucas's ambitious nine - part Star Wars saga , cover the boyhood and ...
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Nonetheless , I think that we should also impute part of Jedi's evocative power to its tenacious epic motifs , still able to move us after all these years . But since Lucas began the Star Wars cycle in medias res — a standard epic ...
Nonetheless , I think that we should also impute part of Jedi's evocative power to its tenacious epic motifs , still able to move us after all these years . But since Lucas began the Star Wars cycle in medias res — a standard epic ...
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In order to give Jedi an epic “ feel , ” Lucas uses images that have analogues in no less than eight different epic authors : Homer , Virgil , the Beowulf poet , Dante , Ariosto , Tasso , Spenser , and Milton .
In order to give Jedi an epic “ feel , ” Lucas uses images that have analogues in no less than eight different epic authors : Homer , Virgil , the Beowulf poet , Dante , Ariosto , Tasso , Spenser , and Milton .
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