https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK0MLkYOz3g
Despite
this crucial victory, the Rebel Alliance has been forced to flee their former
base by the Galactic Empire. The Rebel
Alliance now has a new hidden base on the icy planet Hoth and Luke gets ambushed
by a Yeti or Abominable Snowman-like creature called a wampa. He manages to escape, but gets caught in a
snow storm and he sees the Force ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi telling him to go to
the planet Dagobah and train under Jedi Master Yoda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITV0oLu5mqA
After
Luke is rescued, the Imperial fleet discovers the Rebel base and launches an
attack with AT-AT Walkers under the command of Darth Vader. The Rebels fight back, but the base is
ultimately captured. Han and Leia escape
on the Millennium Falcon with C-3PO and Chewbacca, but their hyperspace drive
malfunctions forcing them to hide in an asteroid field until they can fix
it. During their time in hiding, Han and
Leia grow closer and share their first kiss.
Meanwhile,
Luke escapes with R2-D2 in his X-wing fighter and crash lands on Dagobah. There he meets Yoda, who initially refuses
to train Luke to become a Jedi because
he is too old, impatient, has anger in him, and craves adventure and excitement
making him reckless. Luke and Obi-Wan
manage to convince Yoda though and Luke and Yoda train learning the ways of the
Force. Before Luke can complete his
training he is plagued by visions of Han and Leia in danger. Yoda and Obi-Wan urge Luke to stay and finish
his training, but Luke promises to return.
Han
and Leia go to Cloud City and meet up with Han's old friend, Lando Calrissian played
by Billy Dee Williams who runs the city.
Shortly after though, Lando betrays them and turns them over to Darth
Vader who arrived there before they did to avoid having his city taken
over. Darth Vader uses Han and Leia as
bait so that he can carbon freeze Luke.
Han is used as the test subject for this and Leia confesses her love for
Han before he is carbon freezed and sent to Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine. Lando and Leia manage to escape in the Millennium
Falcon.
When
Luke arrives at Cloud City he faces off in a lightsaber duel with Darth Vader
and Darth Vader cuts off Luke's right hand, disarming him. Darth Vader asks Luke to rule the galaxy with
him and reveals much to Luke's horror that he didn't kill Luke's father, but is
in fact Luke's father. Luke refuses the
claim and throws himself down the air shaft.
Lando and Leia rescue Luke and after Luke and Leia are safe at a Rebel
port, with Luke receiving a prosthetic hand, Lando and Chewbacca fly off in the
Millennium Falcon to rescue Han.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbjru5CQIW4
In
the article, "Fiction-based religion: Conceptualizing a new category
against history-based religion and fandom" from the academic journal, Culture
and Religion: An Interdisciplinary Journal, the author, Markus Altena Davidsen,
writes about how fictional-based religions like the Star Wars-based Jediism and
the Tolkien-inspired Eleven community via The Lord of the Rings are practiced
by people in real life and not just characters in fictional worlds.
According
to the article, "Fiction-based religion differs from conventional
('history-based') religion because it bases itself on fictional narratives...,
while conventional religion is based on narratives that claim to tell of the
actions of supernatural agents in the actual world" (390). I find this article interesting because I had
never thought about Jediism as a religious movement and that people could be
practicing it as such outside of the characters in the movies. I didn't know that the mysterious Force
itself contributes to Jediism identifying itself as a fiction-based
religion.
What
do you think about Jediism being practiced as a religion in the real world? Leave your comment below.
The idea that a group of people would live for the purpose of promoting a higher cause - a noble sense of purpose - is attractive to us as humans. Many of us look for a purpose in our lives, so some may find that purpose through the practice of Jediism.
ReplyDeleteAs a reader, I am interested in what you think about Jediism being practiced as a religion.
I think it would be really cool to practice Jediism as a religion. I find it interesting that most of the people who practice Jediism are Aussies.
Delete