Editorial: How the Original 'Star Wars' Redefined the Blockbuster

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As Star Wars – the original film, A New Hope – turns 38 this year (it opened May 25th, 1977), it’s hard to imagine a time when Star Wars wasn’t an ingrained part of our pop culture. For a second, just imagine a world where lightsabers aren’t a thing and the Millennium Falcon is just a figment of George Lucas’s imagination. There’s no denying Star Wars has infiltrated almost every aspect of our culture and as we prepare to embrace a whole new chapter of the Star Wars legacy with this December’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, let’s take a look and see how Star Wars has changed movies – and pop culture – permanently. ›››