Help me Obi Wan

It was 1977 when my father and I went to see the original Star Wars, it blew me away! In the following years, I slept in a Star Wars sleeping bag and filled my home with plastic toy figures of all the cast.

This movie is a true classic and changed all subsequent Sci-Fi movies, and especially their budgets, forever. In the thirty plus years that have followed, this movie has been pulled to pieces by fans, critics and experts. We now know that the tie-fighter attacks were exact copies of World War 2 footage from American bombers. In fact the whole movie is really a patchwork of the best bits of other movies, but what this different is that it works as a whole. In an age before CGI this movie blew the audience away with cutting edge effects and created Industrial Light and Magic.

This is the movie that also launched a new religion (Jedi) and made all its cast internationally well known.

May the force be with you





9/10