star wars?

Question

I'm writing this very important research paper on star wars. strictly formal, so i need plenty of resources to list on bibliography. If anyone can tell me any good sites to visit it'd be helpful. I'VE ALWAYS BEEN TO WIKIPEDIA. I need some websites to inform me who came up with the idea and how, the process that was done for casting, things abou the technology and about how they built the set and did special effect, something about the audience response and something about the enterprise when it first came out and now. REMEMBER- I need resources, i have to cite everything.

Answer 1

A great website to go to would be www.starwars.com. This is the primary website for Star Wars information. Lucasarts.com is the website for Lucasarts Star Wars gaming. ILM.com is the website for special effects and such. TheForce.net is a fansite that may have some helpful information as well.

Answer 2

so, i always prefer books, and i know teachers tend to prefer or even demand a few print sources, so i looked up some stuff

Creating the Worlds of Star Wars: 365 Days seemed to be good. I mean, the reviews are good, and it seems to have a lot about teh visual and technological aspects of all six films.
The Ultimate Visual Guide to Star Wars also gets good reviews---''Providing fans and newcomers everything they need to know about the highest-grossing movie saga ever, this is the first-ever visual guide to the entire Star Wars franchise.''

I have the dvd set for the original three movies on dvd. They give a fourth dvd, with special features. I know it has a documentary, which was interesting. i never ended up watching the entire thing, but its packed with information. (I didnt even see the whole thing, but i remember specifically that they had lots on casting, technology, special effects, audience respinse, original idea, production.....everything)
...like how george lucas had originally planned it as one film, but it was too long.
''When it all started I wrote it as one little movie, which was Episode 4 and I wanted very much to start in the middle. I don't like to start at the beginning because the first act is not always that entertaining, but you have to have it. So I figured out this method by saying well, we can all just come in at the middle.''
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/interviews/george_lucas.html
(i really do think, though, that the dvd is somehting you should check out...if anything, you'll just waste a while watching it, which in my opinion, is infinitely easier than looking around forever and finding mediocre or even second-rate information)

George Lucas: ''The underlying themes in Star Wars come from mythology, and if you look through the history of world mythology, you see that there are certain ideas and concepts that keep recurring. Partly, that's because myths do incorporate some historical elements, and history seems always to repeat itself.
Certainly the political aspects of the prequels have a basis in historical events like Caesar taking over the Roman Senate and Napoleon taking over the Republic in France.
I've taken a story that is fictional and comes from my imagination and I've layered on top of it things I've learned about the world and our cultures. ...I had been trying to incorporate mythological motifs into a modern story...''
http://sci-fi-online.50megs.com/Interview/05-11-01_GeorgeLucas.htm

Answer 3

George Lucas. Also look up Ray Harryhausen for special effects and monsters.

Answer 4

I typed in the making of star wars & got

www.imdb.com/title/tt0295414

It came out in 1977


hope this helps