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Now. At my school we got another theme week. This week is about movies and what they did to people and the rest of the world.
I got Star Wars (what a surprice, I am the only one in school that likes it)
The topic linie is especially for thoose who saw the original Star Wars in 1977

So the questions are as following:

1. What did Star wars do to you in when you saw it for the first time?

2. What did it do to the rest of the world, by your point of view.

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1st Feb 2008

1.It made me think about the future. What the possibilities are, and how many cool Aliens we could meet. It also made me think about the fact that Evil is still there, and there will still be huge wars taking thousands upon thousands of lives.

2.I think the world probably just thought of it as a movie that was odd. Back then those things were not really thought about that much. Some people maybe even thought that Lucas was a pot head.(Probably why he didn't make them in order ).

PS: I am 15 and saw the movie when I was 4, this is just taking all the facts and putting the parts together.

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In 1977 I was 4 .. and don't remember it, if I even saw it. However, The Empire Strikes Back is the first movie I ever remember going to. I lived in a very ruarl part of Georgia so going to the movies was a big deal, at that time. Me, my father, one of my fathers friends, and his son .. we all got in his very old van, which had a hold in the bottom of it (we dropped trash out of the hole on the way to the movies .. got in trouble and got a spanking on the side of the road before we got there!!) and drove about an hour to the movie theatre. It was packed ... very packed .. I remember being beside a VERY LARGE man, and he smelled. Funny how a movie can bring back memories like that. So, I'm not sure how to reply to your post, except, the movie was very popular and brings memories of family and fun at the movies

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I saw EpV first at my uncles house when I was extreamly young. All I saw was the snow and the stormtroopers. A few days later we went home. I did not know much about how to work the TV, so I kept looking for a show with snow and Stormtroopers. I never found that show on my dads TV. Years later EpIV was on HBO and I saw what looked like black Stormtroopers flying in Spaceships over a big metal planet. I put two and two together and realized that this might be the show I had been looking for all those years. Back then HBO played the same show 5 or 6 times a day so I made sure to catch the movie from the beginning and I watched EpIV all day long, over and over…. But I never saw stormtroopers in snow. Had I been dreaming at my uncles, I was very confused.

Years later I figured it all out…. And pondered why the first movie had EpIV in the text scroll. Now I know why the first movie started as EpIV… Now there are no more mysteries left in this world.

1. What did Star wars do to you in when you saw it for the first time?

-Star Wars made me think cartoons were not the best things on TV anymore. As a result I started watching TV with real people in them.

-Star Wars Opened me up to Science Fiction, and the world of possibilities that exists in that genera. It is in Science Fiction where tomorrows inventions can been seen today.

-Star Wars gave me a myth that seemed more appropriate for today’s world than the old worn-out myths of the past.

2. What did it do to the rest of the world, by your point of view.

-Showed the world that Space did not have to be cheesy. As a result Hollywood opened its arms to better quality space movies and all that Science Fiction had to offer

Click here: http://slate.msn.com/id/3207/ It may help.

I also did not see the movies when they originally came out, but maybe I can still help you out.

I think Star Wars affected me and the world in similar ways. It is specifically structured to be an archetypal quest following patterns from Greek myth and beyond. I don't know if you would be able to find anything by him where you are, but I think there's an author named Joseph Campbell (at least something like that) who wrote a lot about the structure of the epic, and I've heard that Lucas was aware of this work. Myths of this type can be found far back in human history, particularly in oral traditions from before the widespread use of writing. This story of the struggle of good and evil, the hero and his allies and enemies, all of it is ancient stuff that seems to really tap a vein and could even be said to have a spiritual resonance. This is also why the Lord of the Rings is extremely popular (and I'm sure you could draw parallels between the two.) So I think Star Wars just successfully fit as the type of story that we are conditioned to love, at least in the Western tradition.

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We as children grew up looking for a hero, a role model, or someone to look up to. I think some of us turned to Star Wars, because the movie had some heros in it. Luke Skywalker was a hero fighting the evil bad guys. It's so very appealing to us now because most of us grew up with it.

The kids who are all seeing the Harry Potter movies will probably love those movies forever because they're growing up with them.

Here's what I've heard by my historical teacher. (He likes Star Wars.... a bit) Star Wars changed the world in the way that it was helping people to pull away from the "flower power"-way of life. (wonder what he was in 1975) Took the last people with them.
Making people more thinking of technology than nature.

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Some of you might be wondering why I'm sending out such question. The reson is that I don't know so much about Star Wars vs. Real world.
Besides, when I'm making my "speech" I have to stand in front of the whole school. That is about 250 other srudents, that has to listen to me. Including the teachers.

Everyone is looking up to me since I am working alone.

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1st Feb 2008

I never saw any Star Wars movie, how good are they ?j/k

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If you haven't seen the moies, but are playing SW:G you should see them, you'll get a better understandment of the game it self.
If possible try reading some of the books.

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1st Feb 2008

I woukld like to say thanks to all of you who have send in their thoughts.
But the precentation is tommorow, so if anyone got anything at all please post it now. I would love it.

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1st Feb 2008

sorry, I was probably like 3 years old when the first SW movie came out. the first time i have seen it was a cuple of years ago...

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I would like to Thx to you who has given me what they know.
The precentation was finished en minuttes ago.
A succes. We saw Ep. VI og people like it. (or so they say)
Some of them was playing cards. I threw them out when the last part came in. The part were the Battle of Endor is beginning.
So when we had seen the movie, thoose who were thrown out asked again and again of what hapenned.

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1st Feb 2008