Essays on Star Wars

It was a beautiful sunny day with white clouds sailing in the blue sky. I kept walking enjoying the breeze blowing in the face. Lost in my thoughts, I suddenly realized it was very dark and I was lost in forest so deep where I could not even see the stars. Apparently I walked into a dimensional portal that transported me into a different place. I am no longer in a dark forest but I was now floating in the middle of a galaxy. The short time that I could not see the stars was replaced with the most ...

Star Wars: The force awakens is the seventh installment produced and the first in line with the new sequel trilogy. The events of Luke Skywalker and the band of the rebels 30 years’ prior, during the return of the Jedi saw the end of Darth Vader and Darth Sidious hence the ultimate fall of the galactic empire setting the tone for this Star Wars installment. At the present time from the ashes of the galactic empire a new evil has risen called the first order whose main intention is to bring about the end of the republic and the ...

Advertising has for ages used women and more female celebrities to drive their sales, a strategy that has evolved over the ages but holds the primary concept. This strategy stands to date by exploiting many flaws that young women exhibit and capitalizing on them by creating the illusion that if they by the subject’s products they some way parallel the success of the personnel used by the marketer. A recent case suiting this context is the Vanity Fair Holly Wood 2016 magazine cover. The magazine’s cover featured a trifold cover image that was shot by Annie Leibovitz ...

Introduction

According to the New World Encyclopedia (2016), a gender role is an arrangement of behavioral standards related especially with guys or females in a given social gathering or framework, regularly including the division of work amongst men and ladies and the orderly complex of kid raising and socialization forms driving youth toward developing to propagate a similar example. Sex based parts incidental with sex-based parts have been the standard in numerous customary social orders, with the particular segments and workings of the sexual orientation/sex arrangement of part division fluctuating extraordinarily from society to society. Sexual orientation part is a ...

In the modern world, media is an important tool of communication that forms a message and sends it to a wide audience for analysis and interpretation. The message of mass media is usually rather clear, but when it assumes specific attitude in a controversial issue, the public frequently starts to blame media. It, for example, could happen on the issues of racism, femininity, or homosexuality. This paper aims to discuss the issue of homosexuality in mass media as exemplified by Campbell’s Soup ad Your Father (30s). One should say that gay tolerance is an essential part of the ...

Movie Review: THX-1138

THX-1138, the main character in the film THX-1138, works as a magnum operator in cell 94107. He was literally created to manipulate the magnum along with other people in his society. In general, the THX-1138 movie is one of the best films that the creator of Star Wars, George Lucas, has ever scripted and directed. In 1976, Lucas produced Electronic Labyrinth: THX-113: 4EB, a short film that won various awards and introduced Lucas to movie fans globally (“George Lucas Biography”). The success of Electronic Labyrinth impressed the director of The Godfather, Frances Coppela, who urged Warner Brothers to provide ...

This paper offers the summary of the article about Disney Company and its achievements through the nineteenth century. Fundamentally, Disney Company productions is best known for production of animated films and entertainment in the 20th Century, having been founded by Walt Disney. Initially, the founder, Disney, began an occupation in animation with a company situated in Kansas City. With another close person Lwerks, a talented animator, Disney established another Films studio within the same city in 1922, where they produced which began to involve itself in the production series of cartoon films, about fairy tales. Notably, Alice in Cartoon ...

LEGO Group is a toy manufacturing company which dates back to 1916 when Ole Kirk Kristiansen started a wooden toy store in a rural Danish village of Billund. LEGO has a widespread market in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, and in America and was ranked among the top ten Toy Industries in the world before it started to slump in the late 1990s. After a series of poor performance in the market, LEGO Group hired a thirty-six-year-old; Kudstorp in 2004 to fix the financial challenges the company was facing at the moment. This paper aims at looking at some ...

Executive Summary  

The purpose of the paper is to describe the launch of the new product by LEGO. It is very famous toy company, which produces kits of varying degrees of difficulty for the acquisition, as well as sets of differing details. The most famous series of LEGO are called “The Lego” or “The Lego system”. It is represented by a variety of series, “City”, “Castle”, “Space”, “Pirates” series, “Star Wars”, “Harry Potter” and so on. FIFA World Cup is one of the greatest events. Launched in 2012 series of FIFA World Cup brought profits of almost DKK5 billion (The LEGO ...

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The Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is a popular, interesting and entertaining science fiction film. Its popularity even to this day can be attributed to how the makers of the film portrayed the mythic characters, especially of Luke Skywalker who is the main hero in the epic story. For one, the Star Wars (1977) was considered as a groundbreaking movie, and much of its success can be credited to how George Lucas introduced Luke, his family background and ultimately the events that leads him to take the central role in the story. Just like most movie heroes, ...

Introduction

Campbell states that there are twelve stages of the heroes journey they are; The ordinary world - something occurs in the heroes life that causes stress. The approach - the hero and allies prepare for the challenge. The call to adventure - something occurs within the heart of the hero that starts them on their journey to leadership. The ordeal - the hero confronts, death, fears, anxieties, where something is learned (Campbell). Refusal of the call - the hero now aware of his / her call, feels anxiety about it, unprepared, unworthy etc. The reward - the hero fights ...

George Lucas, a multi-film Star Wars Chronicle has had a substantial effect on the American Culture. Star Wars stories are deeply rooted in well-liked culture; with explicit references being made in regards to the key actors and storyline of Star Wars. These have casually created in most English speaker nations, majorly the US on the presumption that people will comprehend the reference. ‘Gone With the Wind’ was the first bestselling film, notably theatrical in its production design, scale, and full visual sweep. The film was box office’s best film of all times up to the point when it ...

Films in the genre of science fiction portray storytelling that questions the underlying nature of current and historical human accomplishment. Science fiction goes above and beyond the realms of reality. Furthermore, a large number of science fiction films demonstrate a strong focus on technological innovation. Science fiction films have changed some people viewpoints on the world in just a few hours. Though the story hides behind a burst of imagination, the moral of the story stands strong. These accomplishments are often framed in relation to profound moral questions that are concerned with the circumstances of the human condition. In ...

Question One

The sales of the Lego’s movie themed products keyed to popular film franchises, such as Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Spiderman are performing well according to the company’s main shareholder and the Chief Executive Officer Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen who has served the company from 1979 to 2004 (Lego). The increased sales can be attributed to the increased number of alliances with Walt Disney Company and Lucas Films, which is the creator of the popular Star Wars Series. According to my opinion, I think this was the right strategy for the company to adopt considering the ...

Human beings as fans of outside work is nothing new: although modern society has the technology that allows large groups of these fans to gather, there is no doubt that fandom has been around a very long time. In fact, in Don Quixote—a novel written in two separately-published parts—the author had to write in a character who was initially created by a fan of the first part of the novel (Harris and Alexander 1998). This fan-made character then denounced his claim to being the true Don Quixote, and the novel meanders on—however, this is just one ...

‘Star Wars’ is considered to be the worldwide phenomenon. George Lucas, the creator of the film series, could not have expected that the adventures in a galaxy far, far away would receive such a commercial success. Before 2015, there were 6 movies in total: the three original ones and the prequels. Of course, the movies that were released between 1999 and 2005 were not that critically acclaimed and received mixed reviews both from the critics and from the audience. But still they did not leave anybody indifferent. And that is what the entertainment is really about, is not it? ...

Introduction

The Lego Group is a firm that manufacturers toys that are well known for their innovation, quality and safety. The objective of this paper is to conduct an external environment and internal competitive analysis for the firm. The paper is divided into four sections. The first section conducts a five force analysis of the firm. The second section identifies if any other environmental force (other than five forces) impact the organisation. The third section identifies the firm’s resources, capabilities and competitive advantage. The fourth section discusses if the business is sustainable given the external and internal environment.

Five Forces Analysis for the Lego Group

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The main purpose of the current assignment is to analyze one of the performances related to classical music and classical arrangements of modern compositions. In particular, the following paragraphs will discuss and analyze the performance by El Capitan High School Symphonic Band, “Pre-Festival Concert”. It is worth stating that overall performance has been conducted on a considerably high level from the technical point of view despite minor technical peculiarities, which could have been improved and eliminated. The concert included four compositions – First Suite in E Flat by Gustav Holst, Armenian Dances, Part 1 composed by Alfred Reed, O Magnum ...

The New Hollywood era is largely considered a contradictory period in cinematograph. Indeed, it was the time when the talents of many directors were reconsidered for the sake of the growing demands of film industry. Some were disregarded and neglected, others found their niche on the background of the emerging trends and genres. There also existed some directors, however, who managed to established their own view regarding filmmaking and fight back the seemingly unstoppable and insatiable manufactory of patterned movies. One of these directors was George Lucas, a true auteur who did his best in reconsidering the obsolete fashions ...

Module 5

Toys! I suppose the name is enough for anyone to have a psychological throwback to their childhood. Moreover, seeing a child playing with a toy gives an utmost joy to the parents and when this desire of generating happiness for children is combined through the process of prudent market research, not only the child gets their desired product, but it also benefits the company manufacturing those toys in the form of higher sales and profitability figures. Fortunately for me, I had a recent experience of visiting a LEGO store where the newly launched TRANSFORMER toy series was creating a ...

Electronic Arts (EA) has four primary divisions, namely EA games, EA Sports, EA Maxis and EA Al Play. EA Games, the label being analyzed in this paper is the biggest division with the most numerous studio and development teams. The label has action-adventure, role-playing, racing and fighting games in its portfolio (EA, 2015). The primary business level strategy of EA Games is through a vertical complementary strategic alliance because it shares resources and capabilities with other firms through partnerships, licenses and joint ventures. The strategic alliances formed within the company’s value chain allows it to gain competitive advantage. ...

PREFACE

Ever since Dr. No came out in 1962, the James Bond film series (produced by United Artists and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) has held itself up as one of the longest, most profitable series of action films in the history of studio filmmaking. One central component of its popularity is the film series’ ability to repurpose the sights, sounds, and trends that were occurring at the time that they were produced and released, acting as cultural touchstones to stay relevant . As they were designed for mass appeal, the Bond producers smartly find ways to capitalize on what is popular for their audiences, ...

Analysis of an Advertisement

Introduction The car company Volkswagen has been known to produce clever commercials. One of the most notable was the commercial entitled ‘The Force,’ which was aired as one of the Super Bowl commercials in 2011. The ad featured a kid, probably 3 to 5 years old, dressed as the Star Wars villain, Darth Vader. It can be seen that the toddler goes on trying to influence various objects with an imaginary force. All his attempts failed until his dad arrived in his Volkswagen 2012 Passat vehicle. While at the car was parked at the driveway, the kid tried again ...

Walt Disney is an international leading family entertainment company that has five segments of business (Slide, 1998). The segments are media networks, interactive media, parks and resorts, consumer products and studio entertainments (Booker, 2011). In 2011, it was estimated to be over $40 billion in worth. Lucas film, on the other hand, is a fully integrated family entertainment, which is privately owned by George Lucas. The company’s activities are television production, motion picture, industrial light and magic, and Skywalker sound. Walt Disney Company agreed to acquire Lucas Film Company in stock and cash basis. The main circumstances that ...

The Changing Identity of the Invaders in Science Fiction

INTRODUCTION There are very few people in the United States who do not know what the quote “May the Force be with you” means, even if they are not fans of the Star Wars franchise. The same could be said for “beam me up,” “resistance is futile,” and “boldly go where no one has gone before.” Science fiction, its characters, phrases, and worlds presented, have become part of the social paradigm. Granted, science fiction is a genre that does not appeal to everyone, but to those who favor the genre they are often committed and loyal. Science fiction can ...

In 2010, James Cameron presented his epic film Avatar. Many cinema critics waited for the opening night. Manohla Dargis in The New York Times wrote a fantastic article dedicated to the film. She indicated that “several decades in the dreaming and more than four years in the actual making, the movie is a song to the natural world that was largely produced with software, an Emersonian exploration of the invisible world” (Manohla, ‘A New Eden, both Cosmic and Cinematic’). And she was right. The film covers the eternal questions of love and relations, friendship and faith. I guess, that the main ...

Parents and educators have raised and echoed their concerns for the roles of toys and toy stores in determining and designing gender roles for kids. Most of these parents have shown support for toy stores in which toys are arranged based on themes and not gender. Although several toy traditional toy stores have failed and died out due to the introduction of traditional toys, large toy stores like Toys’ R US have adapted the new trends to survive the flexible demands of the market. A visit to the Toys’ R US stores revealed that, today, they sell a range of ...

Accounting

PESTEL ANALYSIS FOR THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY Political - Cable television industry is impacted by government regulation. - Government regulate business conduct to avoid monopoly - Government eliminated laws that permit own subscription fee. - Ruling authority fluctuations within the industry. - Consolidation within the industry has placed a great problem for the company. - International regulation make it hard for American company to expand e.g. European countries - Foreign ‘block’ policies e.g. in Asian countries. This has an effect of causing the company to incur extra advertising charges as it thrives ...

Little Background on the Cinematographer

American cinematographer George Walton Lucas Jr. is producer, director, editor and screenwriter; he was born in the town of Modesto, located in the state of California. George Walton Lucas, Jr. (May 14 of 1944, Modesto, California, United States) is a filmmaker States, creator of the hit film of Star Wars and later Indiana Jones, president of Lucasfilm, LucasArts Entertainment Company, and Lucas Digital Ltd, Lucas Licensing, and Lucas Learning Ltd LucasBooks. He was considered two consecutive years as the number 4 of the most powerful in the entertainment industry, just behind the owners of Time Warner, Turner and Steven Spielberg ( ...

For André Bazin, the famous film critic and theorist from France, cinemas were a realist medium. This is why majority of film theorists would perhaps argue that that if he got a look at the computer-animated film WALL·E (2008) by Disney/Pixar, he would turn over in his grave. His theories revolved around the notion that there is always a mummy complex underlying the origin of any form of art, including cinema. Bazin’s notion suggests that art struggles to immortalize the mortal, to preserve the physical existence on screen. According to Bazin, the medium that eliminates most of the distance between ...

Film Studies Paper – Star Wars

What is the point of a teacher, aside from the obvious work of teaching? Is he merely there to talk about things in a hypothetical manner? Is he there to pass on things that he has learned even if they mean nothing to him? Is he there to take credit and blame for all of his student’s achievements and failures? These questions have always buzzed around the heads of teachers and students since the dawn of time but one thing that is known about this profession is that there is nothing more rewarding in such a stressful job than to ...

Abstract

A number of different psychological perspectives based on well established theories are used in understanding and managing individual behaviors. Knowledge of the psychological principles and relating them to psychological perspectives contribute to a well informed response to an individual’s behavior. Different people show different behavioral characteristics that depend on the environment, culture, and personal understanding of an individual. The following research analyses the psychological behavior of Darth Vader. The analysis represents three main perspectives that describe Vader’s behavior. These are cognitive perspective, behaviorist perspective, and humanistic perspective.

Introduction

Different people demonstrate different behavioral characteristics that determine analyzed using the ...

Introduction

‘The flip side of the internet fame’ an article by Jessica Bennett. The author seeks to elaborate the negative impacts of posting on the internet on the overview of a private video concerning the video of chubby Canadian teen of the name Ghyslain Raza. The author clearly illustrates the how the character made a film of himself while acting out a specific fight scene in the film produced in the year 2002 by the name “star wars”. On the same perception a year later the chubby Canadian teen was on the media recorded in a funny digitalized manner in the TV studio of the ...

TIME CAPSULE

Time Capsule Letter to the Future Generation Dear Future Reader/s, As you read pass this electronic mail, perhaps you are using a highly sophisticated gadget and you might need a document translator to be able to read through this text. Notwithstanding, I would like to share with you a common life in our times. I am a wife and the mother to six beautiful children, with two sets of twins included. I have three daughters and three sons ranging from ages six to twenty. My days are full of excitement as one can only imagine. Every day is different ...

One of the most known movie lines of all time is “Luke, I am your father”, found in the movie Star Wars, The Empire Strike Back. In fact, Wizard magazine awarded the Empire Strike as the best cliffhanger of all time. Unfortunately, currently not anyone can share the same thrill as of the people who heard the line when the movie just came out in 1980. The reason for depreciation of the thrill is that everyone is aware of the amazing quote even before watching the movie. In addition, everybody knows that Darth Vader (The warlord of the Dark ...

Eragon is a remarkable work of fantasy in that it was written by a 15-year-old boy, Christopher Paolini. The scope of the action, inventive language and overall idea make the first offering in the Inheritance Cycle an enjoyable read and all the more amazing for having been conceived of by a teenager. On the other hand, it is difficult to think of Eragon as a truly original work because of its many similarities to other works of literary fantasy, with influences ranging from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings to Harry Potter and the Star Wars saga. A story featuring a dragon, ...

Abstract

May 4 is the 124th day of the year and the 125th in leap years in the Gregorian calendar. It is a significant day in time ranging recorded events to birthdates of renowned personnel. Besides the birthdays, many famous deaths have also been accorded to this day. This particular mini research papers briefly summarizes these events, births and deaths that occurred within this period in time.

The 4th of May in History

The 4th may is a rich day in terms of History. These events, births and deaths range from onset of time, the year 1256, when the Augustinian monastic order was formed at the Lecceto Monastery ...