THE POP EXPOSE – My ‘STAR WARS’ Experience!
Story By Mitchell Smith
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The Original Star Wars was released to theaters back in 1977. George Lucas who’s movie was almost canned, but it was kept alive by George and he fought to get it released in theaters. The movie became pretty much an instant hit and there have been a huge fallowing since 1977 to today. I forget the percentage but there is a great number of people in the world who list their religion as Jedi. Never the less Lucas fought to keep is vision alive, it started as a simple story of a farm boy with incredible misfortune to be thrown into a war where he becomes the hero.
I know Lucas always believed in his story but I’m not sure he ever envisioned the mega franchise that Star Wars would become. Not only has Star Wars grown and expanded from books, movies and cartoons, but there have been many spoofs and lines dropped referencing Star Wars. Some of the great spoofs include Space Balls, Family Guy, Legos, Sesame Street and the most recent I have watched was Phineas and Ferb. There have been countless lines dropped over the years in TV shows as well as movies.
As a kid I never really had any Star Wars toys or play sets. I did enjoy the movies but that was about the extent. In 1997 I moved from a secluded mountain town to a moderate sized city. It was there I played at an arcade and won enough tickets to get a 3-3/4 inch statue of R2D2 and C3P0. Later that year I was over in Vermont and found a Han Solo figure at a Flea Market. Soon after that I started picking up stuff here and there from retail stores. It didn’t take long before I was hunting and building my Star Wars collection. I have a mixture of vintage and modern Star Wars figures and vehicles. Somewhere around 2005 I constructed a Darth Vader costume for myself and thought about a Boba Fett but put that on the back Burner.
I’m trying to get inside George Lucas’s head back in 1976 and 77. I’m envisioning him sitting outside on a patio someplace in California. I picture him gazing up at the stars and thinking to himself that with the millions of suns he is looking at, that there must be a solar system around each one of those stars. If there are at lease 8 planets around each star there must be some that have life on them. Time would tell when we cut to the Mos Eisley scene, we got a glimpse of what he may have imagined that night. Lucas brings alive the possibility of sustainable life on those planets and the evolution of many different species as well. From there Lucas and a team of his best workers have created countless species and planets that all stemmed from that one crazy idea of life on other planets.
The original Star Wars has brought hours of entertainment to house holds around the world. One mans dream has become a metropolis of endless ideas and stories. I’m sure it will not happen in my lifetime, but it would be interesting to see beings from another planet watch Star Wars for the very first time.
