Since A new hope It premiered in May 1977, it has not spent a single day without Star Wars You have stopped being news. Spain succumbed to galactic fever a few months later, in November. Star Wars: A new hope (The subtitle was not incorporated until 1981) was One of the first cinema blockbusters and raised more than 775 million dollars.
Star Wars It is, like The Lord of the Ringsone of the few franchises that public and Loan academy equally. The creation of Lucas adds 10 Oscar, most of them won by A new hope. The awards cycle has closed with the honorific gold palm that Cannes has awarded George Lucas, which has been without directing almost two decades and whose last film outside the universe Star Wars was American Graffitiof 1973. In it, an overwhelming and still unknown Harrison Ford. Four years later, the force was with him.
Why on May 4 do we celebrate Star Wars day?
Although the first six films of the franchise (the original trilogy and prequel) were released in May, None arrived in cinemas on this month. George Lucas, meanwhile, was born on May 14. The month Bulle of Midiclorian activity, but the sheet of May 4, however, remains blank. The explanation is somewhat less obvious And, to develop it, you have to go to English. Already Margaret Thatcher.
On May 4, it is pronounced, in the mother tongue of the George Lucas galaxy, May the fourth. Similarly, one of the most popular phrases in the franchise, May the force accompany youappears in the original scripts such as May the force be with you. The sound is similar and, phonetically, there is not much difference between “the force accompanies you” and “that on May four accompany you.” Why could end there. But not. There is still Margaret Thatcher for joining the equation.
The Iron Lady and Jedi Master of Neoliberalism was congratulated for her party companions, following her arrival at Downing Street, in a British newspaper. The headline under which the praise were mixed was this: May the 4th Be With You, Maggie (“May May 4 accompany you, Maggie”). Thatcher began his legislature on May 4 of 1979 and this was, supposedly, the first time that day and phrase were linked.
On May 4 it became, informally, on World Wars World Day from 2011. Since then, this date has had various memorable celebrations, such as the franchise films marathon that, in 2015, saw the astronauts of the space station, or the star on the Hollywood ride that granted him to Carrie Fisher in 2023.
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