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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope - DivX Version (Normal Quality), DVD (Good Quality), PDA Version, HD Ready:720p (Super Quality), Full HD:1080p (Best Quality)
November 19, 2009 | Tagged 19771977, Action, Adventure, Baker Kenny, Brown Phil, Byrne Eddie, Cushing Peter, Daniels Anthony, Fantasy, Ford Harrison, Guinness Alec, Hamill Mark, Jones James Earl, Mayhew Peter, McCrindle Alex, Prowse David, Purvis Jack, Sci-Fi |
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IMDB rating: 8.80 Plot: In a distant galaxy eons before the creation of the mythical planet known as Earth, vast civilizations have evolved, and ruling the galaxy is an interstellar Empire created from the ruins of an Old Republic that held sway for generations. It is a time of civil war, as solar systems have broken away from the Empire and are waging a war of rebellion. During a recent battle techical schematics for a gigantic space station, code named The Death Star, have been unearthed by Rebel spies, and a young woman who is a dissident member of the Imperial Senate, under the cover of a diplomatic mission to the planet Alderaan, is trying to smuggle these plans to the Rebellion. But her spacecraft is attacked by a vast warship of the Empire and seized. The dissident Senator is captured, but the plans for the Death Star are nowhere to be found. While soldiers of the Empire search the nearby planet Tatooine, a series of incidents sweeps up a young desert farmer with dreams of being a fighter pilot in the Rebellion, as he winds up with the Death Star plans and also the assistance of an elderly hermit who once served as a warrior of an ancient order whose chosen weapons were powerful energy swords known as light sabers. The pair recruit a cynical interstellar smuggler and his outsized alien copilot with an ancient freighter heavily modified for combat to help them reach Alderaan - but the planet is obliterated and now the foursome must rescue the young woman held prisoner by the Empire and lead an attack by the Rebellion against the Death Star before it can annihilate all hope of restoring freedom to the galaxy. |
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Actors: Ford Harrison,Hamill Mark,Cushing Peter,Guinness Alec,Daniels Anthony,Baker Kenny,Mayhew Peter,Prowse David,Jones James Earl,Brown Phil,Purvis Jack,McCrindle Alex,Byrne Eddie,Fantasy,Adventure,Sci-Fi,Action,
Special Effects in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope?
What significance did the special effects have on Star Wars: A New Hope in it becoming one of the best movies ever made?And/Or what long term effects did the special effects in Star Wars: A New Hope have.
Star Wars, in it’s un-altered, un-"improved", original form change everything about visual entertainment in the USA.
At a time when movie attendance figures were stagnating (or dropping), Star Wars reintroduced the concept of a movie as an "event". The moviegoers lined up for blocks to pay their money to see the film over and over again served as a model for other epic adventure movies in the years to come. The idea of a summer blockbuster movie that would earn zillions of dollars and finance the studios whole year riginated with Star Wars.
Movies like "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Back to the Future" and even "Ghostbusters" could not have happened had Star Wars not proven the concept.
George Lucas invented the "special effects" industry out of thin air. The cameras and computers that generate modern special effects did not exist before Lucas started Star Wars.
Now, the "special effects" segment of the moviemaking industry earns billions of dollars a year. As computers increased in power, the Lucas started investing in computer imagery, and special effects became a "must-have" staple in movies that would never have had budget for such effects before.
Visual effects that either could not have been produced, or would have been too expensive to consider can now be rendered in digital environments. Just about every segment of the entertainment industry makes use of digital imagery. Movies, television shows, even commercials display fantastic imagery once impossible to produce. Effects that even just a few years ago would have cost millions now routinely serve to pitch pizzas and sodas on television.
An entire industry blossomed as a mere subset of the fx industry. As computers became more powerful, digitally-produced "cartoons" emerged. These can be produced so quickly and cheaply that traditionally-hand drawn and inked animated films have all but disappeared. Digital cartoons even supplanting traditional "cheap" television animation.
Digital cable TV, digital movie projection systems, iPods,Tivo devices, Internet -streaming video, and more would not exist.
I know this is long-winded, but I have not really even scratched the surface of the impact Star Wars had on the world at large…
chocolahoma | Mar 06, 2007
Star Wars !V led to the creation of ILM, which has made special effects for tons of Hollywood movies since then. Also, some movies (2001: A Space Odyssey, for instance) had great special effects before Star Wars, but not as many as often.
chazzychef | Mar 06, 2007
I think that movie was so ahead of its time in the late 70s that it is destined to have a place in film history. Not only was it full of excitement, the special affects were amazing. Although it is common place now…Blowing up a planet was really neat!
Not to mention the fact tha directors where now free to ask for more money to create better special affects.
ebettis | Mar 06, 2007
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