REGIS CEBU Leadership Movie Synopsis, Analysis of JCampbell monomyth and My Life Story
By Leader Pedro Leonard G. Castañeda
_____________________________________________Few movies have had the capacity to capture the imagination in such a spellbinding and compelling way than the Star Wars series. The richness of the worlds and characters that George Lucas has spawned has captured generations of fans: the fans of the first trilogy are the fathers of the fans of the second trilogy. Books and games have added more detail to the past, present, and future events surrounding Star Wars. None of the characters have stood out more than Anakin Skywalker, the son of an obscure slave girl in the distant backwater planet of Tatooine. "Anni," as his friend have called him, who would eventually become Darth Vader, one of fiction's most enduring anti-heroes of all time. With the first series (episodes IV-VI), we come across him as a sinister villain out to thwart all that is good, but when the prequels (episodes I-III) finally came out, we find him recasted as a tragic hero who has descended into evil.
Applying Campbell's Hero's Journey for the entire series would be long and complex, although the entire story of Anakin's life does follow the stages identified by Campbell. In fact, if one closely observes the story pattern, you would see repetitive, sequential and overlapping cycles: the whole story follows the cycle, but so do the episodes. < most movie makers are observed to be following JCampbell patterns)
SYNOPSIS:
The story begins in the midst of a crisis: the planet of Naboo has been blockaded by the Trade Federation, and the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic dispatches Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi, to negotiate with the Federation. Unknown to them, the Trade Federation has been secretly advised by Darth Sidious, a Sith Lord, and the Jedi's greatest opponent, to kill the Jedi and invade Naboo. The Jedi flee to the planet even as the invasion commences, and saves a Gungan outcast, Jar-jar Binks. In their debt, Binks leads the pair to the underwater Gungan city, where Qui-Gon unsuccessfully tries to convince the Gungans to aid the humans. They journey to Theed, the capital, and rescue Queen Padme Amidala.
