It's difficult to overstate the immense impact "Star Wars" made in Hollywood. Before it exploded into a massive, decades-sprawling, multi-billion dollar franchise, George Lucas' original entry, re-named as "Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope," was a strange and ambitious attempt at bringing the campy space operas the director grew up watching to a modern audience. In a landmark moment, the film introduced a new style of a modern blockbuster and encouraged productions to shift to bigger...

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