Paper Proposals

I have two ideas for my paper.  One is how Star Wars has become a cultural phenomenon in terms of how much merchandise it has and how there are conventions for it.  I like this idea because it is something that I have a lot of first-hand experience with.  In my last blog, I talked about how my mother collects a lot of the merchandise so I, in turn, got quite a few items myself.  I even got a Darth Vader balloon shape made, it was awesome.  But what I really want to address in this topic is how much more Star Wars is than just a film.  Most movies just come out with posters of the main characters face that no one really cares about or a book adaptation of the movie but Star Wars gives people something tangible to have that represents the movie to them.  For instance, there are literally thousands of action figures that you could buy and then recreate different scenes from the movie or come up with a whole new sequence of events, like maybe Anakin didn’t become Darth Vader.  So much merchandise and memorabilia allows people to create their own little Star Wars world.  My second idea was more general about the film industry and its impact on life.  It is also a little far-fetched in terms of making it into an 8-10 page paper but I wanted to possibly focus on the use of dialogue and how some lines become so iconic, like “Luke, I am your father.” That particular one is quite amusing because it’s not even the actual line but anyways, I would not only focus on Star Wars but also on movies like Scarface and the quote “say hello to my little friend” and so forth.  Research for the first topic was relatively easy because there’s quite a bit about how Star Wars has affected lives, one guy creates a one-man-show about the original trilogy but I need to find more about how the products themselves affect people.  If I were to choose the second topic, I might have more difficulty with research because I wouldn’t even know where to begin so most likely I will choose the first topic.

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