Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Autor: Ana Carol | Publicado: 2012-06-04T18:56:00-07:00








Plot





The
galaxy&nbsp;is in a state of&nbsp;civil war. Spies for the&nbsp;Rebel
Alliance&nbsp;have stolen
plans to the&nbsp;Galactic Empire's&nbsp;Death
Star, a weaponized&nbsp;space
station&nbsp;capable of
annihilating an entire planet. Rebel leaderPrincess
Leia&nbsp;(Carrie
Fisher) is in possession of
the plans, but her ship is captured by Imperial forces under the command of the
evil lord&nbsp;Darth Vader&nbsp;(David
Prowse, voiced by&nbsp;James
Earl Jones). Before she is
captured, Leia hides the plans in the memory of a&nbsp;droid&nbsp;called&nbsp;R2-D2&nbsp;(Kenny
Baker), along with a&nbsp;holographic&nbsp;recording. The small droid escapes to
the surface of the desert planet&nbsp;Tatooine&nbsp;with fellow droidC-3PO&nbsp;(Anthony
Daniels).

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The droids are quickly captured by&nbsp;Jawa&nbsp;traders, who sell the pair to
moisture farmers&nbsp;Owen and Beru Lars&nbsp;(Phil Brown&nbsp;and&nbsp;Shelagh Fraser)
and their nephew,&nbsp;Luke Skywalker&nbsp;(Mark Hamill).
While Luke is cleaning R2-D2, he accidentally triggers part of Leia's message,
in which she requests help from&nbsp;Obi-Wan Kenobi.
The only "Kenobi" Luke knows of is an old hermit named Ben Kenobi (Alec Guiness)
who lives in the nearby hills. The next morning, upon finding R2-D2 after he
escapes to seek Obi-Wan, Luke meets Ben Kenobi, revealing himself to be
Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan tells Luke of his days as a&nbsp;Jedi Knight, one of a
faction of former galactic peacekeepers who were wiped out by the Empire.
Contrary to his uncle's claims, Luke learns that his father Anakin Skywalker
fought alongside Obi-Wan as a Jedi Knight before he was betrayed and killed by
Vader, Obi-Wan's former pupil who turned to the "dark side of the Force".



Obi-Wan views Leia's complete message in which she begs
Obi-Wan to take the Death Star plans to her home planet of&nbsp;Alderaan&nbsp;for&nbsp;her father&nbsp;to retrieve and analyze.
He then asks Luke to accompany him and learn the ways of the Force. Luke
initially refuses, but changes his mind after discovering that Imperial&nbsp;stormtroopers&nbsp;have destroyed his home
and killed his aunt and uncle in search of C-3PO and R2-D2. Obi-Wan and Luke
hire smuggler&nbsp;Han Solo&nbsp;(Harrison Ford)
and his&nbsp;Wookiee&nbsp;co-pilot&nbsp;Chewbacca&nbsp;(Peter Mayhew)
to transport them on their ship, the&nbsp;Millennium
Falcon.



Upon the&nbsp;Falcon's arrival at Alderaan, they find
that it has been destroyed under the orders of the Death Star's commanding
officer&nbsp;Grand Moff Tarkin&nbsp;(Peter Cushing)
to demonstrate the Death Star's power. The&nbsp;Falcon&nbsp;is caught by
the nearby Death Star's&nbsp;tractor beam&nbsp;and brought into its hangar
bay. While Obi-Wan goes off to disable the tractor beam, Luke discovers that
Leia is imprisoned on board and, with the help of Han and Chewbacca, rescues
her. After several harrowing escapes, they make their way back to the&nbsp;Falcon,
though Obi-Wan is killed in a&nbsp;lightsaber&nbsp;duel
with Vader. The&nbsp;Falcon&nbsp;escapes the Death Star but the Empire
has placed a tracking device on the ship to follow them to the rebels' hidden
base on&nbsp;Yavin IV.



The rebels analyze the Death Star plans, disclosing a
vulnerable exhaust port leading to the station's main reactor. Luke joins the
assault team, but Han collects his reward for the rescue and plans to leave
despite Luke asking him to stay. The rebels suffer heavy losses after several
failed attack runs, leaving Luke one of the few surviving pilots. Vader and a
group of&nbsp;TIE fighters&nbsp;are about to destroy Luke's ship, but Han
Solo returns at the last moment and destroys the TIE Fighters and the blast
sends Darth Vader spiralling away. Then Luke successfully destroys the Death
Star seconds before it can fire on the rebel base. Luke and Han are
subsequently awarded medals by Leia for their heroism.





Cast





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<!--[endif]-->&nbsp;&nbsp;Mark Hamill&nbsp;as&nbsp;Luke Skywalker:
Luke is a young man who was raised by his aunt and uncle on the remote, desert
world&nbsp;Tatooine.
He dreams of something greater than his current position in life and eventually
finds it.



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<!--[endif]-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Harrison Ford&nbsp;as&nbsp;Han Solo:
Han is a cynical smuggler whom Luke and Obi-Wan meet at the&nbsp;Mos Eisley Cantina. They hire him to take them
to Alderaan in his ship, the&nbsp;Millennium
Falcon, which is co-piloted by Chewbacca.



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<!--[endif]-->Carrie Fisher&nbsp;as&nbsp;Princess Leia Organa: Leia is a member of the
Imperial Senate and a leader of the&nbsp;Rebel Alliance.
She plans to use the stolen&nbsp;Death Starplans
to find the station's weakness.



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<!--[endif]-->&nbsp;&nbsp;Peter Cushing&nbsp;as&nbsp;Grand Moff
Tarkin: Tarkin is the commander of the Death Star and a Regional
Governor of the Galaxy. He leads the search for the Rebel Base, hoping to
destroy it.



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<!--[endif]-->&nbsp;&nbsp;Alec Guinness&nbsp;as&nbsp;Obi-Wan
"Ben" Kenobi: Obi-Wan is an aging man who served as a Jedi
Knight and then Jedi Master during the&nbsp;Clone Wars. Early in the film, Kenobi
introduces Luke to the Force.



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<!--[endif]-->&nbsp;&nbsp;Anthony Daniels&nbsp;as&nbsp;C-3PO: 3PO is a protocol
and interpreter droid who also falls into Luke's hands. He is rarely without
his counterpart droid, R2-D2.



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<!--[endif]-->&nbsp;&nbsp;Kenny Baker&nbsp;as&nbsp;R2-D2: R2 is an astromech
droid who is carrying the Death Star plans and a secret message for Obi-Wan
from Princess Leia.



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<!--[endif]-->&nbsp;&nbsp;Peter Mayhew&nbsp;as&nbsp;Chewbacca:
Chewie is Han Solo's sidekick, a 200 year old&nbsp;Wookiee&nbsp;and
co-pilot of the&nbsp;Millennium Falcon.