Darth Vader is the villain, sure, but he doesn’t directly encounter the core hero. It is a basic story of good versus evil.Įxamining A New Hope, we struggle to identify the protagonists and antagonists as individuals. It has exciting space action, the likes of which had never been seen, but it doesn’t provide the rich character growth or symbolic depth of the pictures that follow. A New Hope has the makings of an epic story that suffers from being crunched into an assumed single film. Its narrative comes across as something that was just the beginning of a larger picture, but the expectations were that the rest of the story would never get told. The first film, Star Wars (1977), later re-titled A New Hope, originally lacked the subtitle because it was expected to be a huge failure upon release.
#Star wars an empire strikes back series#
Roger Ebert cited it as such, saying Empire Strikes Back is more “thought-provoking” and noting “it is because of the emotions stirred in ‘Empire’ that the entire series takes on a mythic quality that resonates back to the first and ahead to the third. In the original Star Wars trilogy, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) is widely considered the “best” of the three pictures, from fans and critics alike. Yet we all hotly believe certain things deserve the title and will defend our claims to the end. “The best” is never absolute-it’s a subjective and personal statement that, on its own, has no validity. It’s always tricky calling something “the best.” Someone will always disagree.
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