Star Wars- A New | Hope

Red and Gold squadrons dive toward the Death Star’s trench. Vader leads TIE fighters personally, picking off Rebel pilots one by one. Gold Leader is killed. Red Leader misses the exhaust port.

Luke's life changes when he stumbles upon a message from Princess Leia Organa hidden in the droid R2-D2. The message is a plea for help from the Rebel Alliance, who are fighting against the Empire. Luke meets an old Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, who reveals that Luke's father was a Jedi Knight and was killed by Darth Vader. Star Wars- A New Hope

A New Hope (retroactively titled, though we all know it’s just Star Wars ) is the ultimate B-movie with an A+ budget. George Lucas didn’t invent a new mythology; he stole the best parts of the old one. He took Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces , dissolved it in Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress , and poured the mixture over Flash Gordon serials and World War II newsreels. Red and Gold squadrons dive toward the Death Star’s trench

: They hire Han Solo and Chewbacca to transport them to Alderaan in the Millennium Falcon . Red Leader misses the exhaust port