Yes it’s that day again. May Forty Fourth.
Time to celebrate the Creator of the greatest Space Opera ever written.
George Lucas. Born May 14th 1944
May the Forty Fourth be with you.
George Lucas was born on May 14, 1944. He is an American movie director, producer, screenwriter, and businessman. Lucas is best known for his brainchild, the “Star Wars” and for establishing his own company, Lucasfilm. He is one of the wealthiest directors in the world, all thanks to his star-studded movies and merchandise deals. We celebrate his birthday and marvel at his accomplishments today.
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The Space Opera
Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes science fictional space warfare, with use of melodramatic, risk-taking space adventures and chivalric romance. Set mainly or entirely in outer space, it features technological and social advancements (or lack thereof) in faster-than-light travel, futuristic weapons, and sophisticated technology, on a backdrop of galactic empires and interstellar wars with fictional aliens, often in fictional galaxies. The term has no relation to opera music, but is instead a play on the terms "soap opera", a melodramatic television series, and "horse opera", which was coined during the 1930s to indicate a clichéd and formulaic Western film. Space operas emerged in the 1930s and continue to be produced in literature, film, comics, television, and video games.
An early film which was based on space-opera comic strips was Flash Gordon (1936), created by Alex Raymond. Perry Rhodan (1961–) is the most successful space opera book series ever written. Star Wars films (1977–) by George Lucas, and the Star Trek TV series (1966–) by Gene Roddenberry, brought a great deal of attention to the sub-genre. After the convention-breaking "new wave", followed by the enormous success of the franchises, space opera became once again a critically acceptable sub-genre.
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Space Operas don’t just server as entertainment, when looked deeply into it, there’s actually a lot to be learnt from them. Being a fan of Star Wars I was intrigued by this Article.
Hopefully we get to see more and more great works from others.
May the Fourthy Forth be with you.