Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) Review
A New Hope is the film that created modern blockbuster cinema, and it did so by being something very specific: a myth engine. Lucas wasn't writing charact.
David Prowse was a competitive bodybuilder and weightlifter who played Darth Vader physically across the original trilogy, delivering all the dialogue on set.
He was not told his voice would be replaced by James Earl Jones and learned about it at the premiere, which he discussed with lasting irritation.
He was also the Green Cross Code Man in British road safety campaigns for children, for which he received an MBE, and was banned from official Star Wars events for years after leaking plot details.
Alec GuinnessA New Hope is the film that created modern blockbuster cinema, and it did so by being something very specific: a myth engine. Lucas wasn't writing charact.
Anthony DanielsEmpire earns its 8 by doing what no Star Wars film before or since has managed: it takes the universe seriously. Lucas's original Star Wars is a myth engine, archetypes, simple morality, the pleasure of a world with clear rules.
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