Star Wars in Popular Culture!!!

32_4_1

now im not a massive star wars fan by any means. but it's just ridiculous how ingrained in popular culture its become, so much so, it doesnt even register with people anymore. an unappreciated phenomenon. so unappreciated infact, this phenomenom isnt even discussed as its such a natural and regular occurance......its just there.....just as the sky is blue. only today i came accross star wars references 3 times. in a crossword, the 70's show and stepbrothers. had i not been watching out, it wouldnt have even registered. just the norm. is there one person on the planet who doesnt know who darth vader is? or luke skywalker? or what a lightsaber is? or about the force

Theboinkmaster

What's your point?

chin_grin

32_4_1 wrote: »

now im not a massive star wars fan by any means. but it's just ridiculous how ingrained in popular culture its become, so much so, it doesnt even register with people anymore. an unappreciated phenomenon. so unappreciated infact, this phenomenom isnt even discussed as its such a natural and regular occurance......its just there.....just as the sky is blue. only today i came accross star wars references 3 times. in a crossword, the 70's show and stepbrothers. had i not been watching out, it wouldnt have even registered. just the norm. is there one person on the planet who doesnt know who darth vader is? or luke skywalker? or what a lightsaber is? or about the force

Theboinkmaster wrote: »

What's your point?

Found it.

I think it's a milestone in cinematic enjoyability. Was then, still is now. And of course you're going to get references to it in the likes of TV\other movies! Get used to it.

Turtyturd

32_4_1 wrote: »

is there one person on the planet who doesnt know who darth vader is? or luke skywalker? or what a lightsaber is? or about the force

I think there is an argument for George Lucas not knowing them these days...I think in his mind they are just dollar signs. I am sure a lot of the pop culture references go over his head too.

chin_grin

Turtyturd wrote: »

I think there is an argument for George Lucas not knowing them these days...I think in his mind they are just dollar signs. I am sure a lot of the pop culture references go over his head too.

When they're not pulled in by the gravitational force of his neck.

faceman

I was at Tedfest at the weekend and one of my mates was dressed as Darth Vadar. You'd think that he was way off the mark, but Vadar is referenced in a Ted episode on Dougal's list of things that arent real!

jaykhunter

Yeah, even parodies of Star Wars are popular (see Family Guy, Robot Chicken) but Star Wars references are found in practically every genre of TV show and film. Star Wars is awesome. I hope they make more.

Penn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6lzEhoXads

chin_grin

OP is this the infographic you're looking for?

http://dailyinfographic.com/how-star-wars-changed-the-world-infographic

bonerm

You think SW is everywhere nowadays but back in it's heyday of the 70s and 80s it was practically part of the common vernacular.

I always use this photo to help demonstrate how big Star Wars once was , before the the dark times, before .... the prequels.

The kid is David Vetter, the so-called bubble boy. David was a child who was born with no immune system and who spent practically his entire life living in a plastic dome effectively cut off from the outside world. However even this did not stop him becoming a huge Star Wars fan much like most kids of the day.

Star Wars really was big, facebook big.

bonerm

Turtyturd wrote: »

I think there is an argument for George Lucas not knowing them these days...I think in his mind they are just dollar signs. I am sure a lot of the pop culture references go over his head too.

All joking aside I've seen documentary footage of Lucas referring to Lightsabres as "laser swords" so yes he genuinely doesn't know what they're called anymore.

bnt

When Lucas created the Star Wars story, he was explicitly trying to create a coherent mythology that would appeal to a mass audience - and he did a good job, apparently. For that, the credit should go to Joseph Campbell and his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. You can see a breakdown of the ideas here, where you can see that Star Wars is not the only popular movie to follow the "Hero's Journey" pattern... :cool:

Sad Professor

bonerm wrote: »

All joking aside I've seen documentary footage of Lucas referring to Lightsabres as "laser swords" so yes he genuinely doesn't know what they're called anymore.

Laser swords was his name for them in the (many) early drafts of Star Wars. It's how he still thinks of them, I guess.

bnt wrote: »

When Lucas created the Star Wars story, he was explicitly trying to create a coherent mythology that would appeal to a mass audience - and he did a good job, apparently. For that, the credit should go to Joseph Campbell and his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. You can see a breakdown of the ideas here, where you can see that Star Wars is not the only popular movie to follow the "Hero's Journey" pattern... :cool:

The hero's journey is in almost everything though, not just populist films. Storytellers find themselves following it whether they realise it not. There's evidence of it in everything from Taxi Driver to The Godfather.

Mickeroo

I know a few people who've never seen star wars, I think everyone should watch it whether they like the look of it or not, it would be crippling to my enjoyment of modern tv and movies there's so much references around. Star wars references and gags from TV, movies and not to mention my mouth fly right over the head of one of my flatmates. It totally hinders enjoyment of so many shows if you don't know anything about star wars imho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R55e-uHQna0

Turtyturd

Mickeroo wrote: »

I know a few people who've never seen star wars, I think everyone should watch it whether they like the look of it or not, it would be crippling to my enjoyment of modern tv and movies there's so much references around. Star wars references and gags from TV, movies and not to mention my mouth fly right over the head of one of my flatmates. It totally hinders enjoyment of so many shows if you don't know anything about star wars imho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R55e-uHQna0

It's only after half 10 and that ad has made my day.:)