In 1977 teenagers all over America walked into movie theatres to watch a movie that was virtually unknown. The director was unknown, the characters were unknown, the soundtrack was unknown, the robots were unknown. The name of the movie was Star Wars. It was not expected to be the biggest grossing movie of all times.
It’s hard to believe that was 28 years ago. But even then some of us could read the handwriting on the wall. It was more grand than anything else we’d had ever see. For the next two months in that year of ’77, the word spread and we couldn’t get enough.
From the very beginning of the movie it had a mysterious lure to it. Some of you may remember that as the story begins these huge words scroll up the screen. The first piece of information you are confronted with is that the STAR…