Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope
Movie • 1977 • Adventure
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Yesitdoes1
Sort of the premise for the whole trilogy really.
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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jdpamv
Vader abuses Leia but he doesn’t seem to know they’re related yet and never takes a parental role.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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passerby
a sideways lie about a family member is told, but this is not gaslighting as the person being lied to is only hearing a lie and not being made to believe they are insane, silly, or stupid for believing otherwise. gaslighting is a combination of lying and victim blaming NOT just lying.
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JaxMoth
I think Luke is 16-17 and goes through some stuff, but it's not necessarily abuse and it's not revealed to be parental
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Addiction
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Anonymous
There are several plastered aliens at a cantina, some of whom are also smoking a hookah.
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Is there addiction?
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Corellon
We see no evidence that any characters are abusing substances or struggling with addiction.
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Animal
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Does a horse die?
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SiRenfield
You do realize your trolling on here is more lame, right? And also a ticket to a possible IP ban
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Southern_Star
Alderaan. There were probably a lot of animals on Alderaan.
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Does a dragon die?
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ByrdMcByrd
There is the Krayt Dragon skeleton on the dune 3PO passes.
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Are there spiders?
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Anonymous
The Dynogha (an octopus-like alien) has several snakelike tentacles, and attempts to eat Luke.
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone drugged?
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Southern_Star
Yes. Although it is never mentioned in the film, the droid with the syringe injected Leia with a sort of truth serum that causes severe headaches, meant to get information out of people. But this detail was added years later in a comic or something.
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Is someone held under water?
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miloomezai
kind of? luke is briefly held underwater but there are no shots underwater and he is quickly released
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Is someone restrained?
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Southern_Star
Chewbacca was consentually cuffed so they could pretend he was a prisoner.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Corellon
There are no implements with sharp metal blades.
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Are any hands damaged?
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Yesitdoes1
Not in this one but it does sort of become a thing.
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Southern_Star
Technically, in early drafts of the script, Darth Vader cuts Obi-Wan in half VERTICALLY, rather than horizontally, meaning his blade would have mutilated his neck as it sliced down. However, this version didn't make it into the final film, so the answer is an easy "No."
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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AteIsa
A character is notorious for breathing audibly.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Hupablom
At one point several main characters are under the threat of being crushed to death, but they are ultimately saved and no one dies
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Is someone burned alive?
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Anonymous
Owen and Beru are burned to death off-screen, leaving a pair of charred skeletons.
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Is there amputation?
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OscarEvans
A character's arm is cut off by Obi-Wan Kenobi in the cantina. The actual amputation occurs mostly off-screen, but a shot of the severed forearm is shown. There is some blood on the arm but overall, not very graphic.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Karakamacus
A tertiary character is asphixiated by an evil character in one of the first scenes of the movie (choked by the "Force")
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Does someone become unconscious?
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GlennRose
Leia is knocked unconscious by a stun from a blaster toward the film's start.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Anonymous
C-3P0 falls down a cliff and loses an arm module.
A beliggerent alien gets his hand cut off.
A beliggerent alien gets his hand cut off.
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Is someone tortured?
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JohnCena
Leia is implied to be tortured, but this is never shown.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Corellon
Some stormtroopers might have fallen from high places after being shot.
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Is someone stabbed?
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Yesitdoes1
No, but they are chopped in half.
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Is there excessive gore?
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passerby
almost all wounds shown are cauterized by the weapons that caused them. it’s graphic (missing limbs) but not bloody or gory
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Children
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Obi-Wan sacrifices himself so Luke and the gang could escape from The Death Star
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Disability
Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
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Southern_Star
If you consider Darth Vader disabled, then yes.
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Does a family member die?
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SiRenfield
[SPOILERS] Luke’s aunt and uncle are killed by Storm Troopers. We don’t see their deaths but we see their charred skeletons
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Does a parent die?
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Anonymous
Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru are killed offscreen, leaving a pair of charred skeletons.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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ByrdMcByrd
Not shown on screen, but when the Lars homestead is burned, Luke’s childhood skyhopper toy, which he does play with in the movie, is also destroyed
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Ferris
one character is held hostage.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Autumn
He is a good ghost
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Are there jump scares?
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Anonymous
There is a scene where Luke is looking through binoculars and a Tusken Raider pops into view suddenly with a loud noise.
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Gross
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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AlbertTried
i think its the opposite actually
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Is there incarceration?
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SiRenfield
Leia is held prisoner by the Empire for the first two thirds or so and is sometimes seen in a holding cell
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Anonymous
Leia is threatened by an interrigation robot with a syringe of truth serum, although the scene uses a Discretion Shot before she is injected.
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Mental Health
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Luke, Han, Chewbacca, and Leia end up in a trash compactor, which begins a compression cycle. They escape unharmed.
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Anonymous
Obi-Wan Kenobi allows Darth Vader to kill him without resisting
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Paci
You might say Darth Vader and Obi Wan suffer from It from what we learn on the precuels
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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Karakamacus
A character gets dragged underwater but the shots remain above-ground, and the character does not perish
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Is there screaming?
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GlennRose
Not in terror or fear, more of a battlecry.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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I think the worst of it is about an hour and 14 mins in
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Corellon
The Stormtrooper, TK-421, (who wasn't at his post) dies offscreen in a massive explosion. In a canon short story collection, he is revealed to be in a relationship with a male officer.
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Is there hate speech?
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Anonymous
An Imperial officer mocks Vader's religeon.
Han derides Jediism as nonsense.
Han derides Jediism as nonsense.
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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AlbertTried
in my head there is
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
Jediism
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Sex
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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passerby
leia is pretty exclusively treated as a damsel. she’s got an attitude but her arc in this movie is almost exclusively setting her up for a romantic relationship in a sequel
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MamaMegz318
The kiss is not in this movie
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Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
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passerby
the Jedi rely very strongly on denying their emotions and all the Jedi in this story are men. nobody is ridiculed for crying but the main character is pushed by all his mentors to move past his petty feelings to become stronger
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Sickness
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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passerby
darts vader is a disabled character who uses many mobility, breathing, and communication aides to function.
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Social
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Is someone homeless?
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mostlyghostly42
Leia effectively loses her home.
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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SiRenfield
Pretty triumphant
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Vehicular
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Does a plane crash?
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Anonymous
Several starfighters are shot down during the Death Star battle.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Anonymous
There is a near-miss with a motorcycle in the special edition, however.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Corellon
There is a very tense scene where a character is dragged underwater by an alien tentacle creature. His friends struggle to save him. He breathes uncomfortably raggedly and goes under several times. When the creature lets him go, he coughs profusely.
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Is there blood/gore?
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Anonymous
When Obi-Wan cuts off an alien's arm in the cantina, it cuts to a shot of the arm lying on the floor with mild blood.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Anonymous
while there isn't technically a nuclear explosion, a planet does get destroyed on-screen
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Is there gun violence?
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Autumn
Laser guns are used a lot, no realistic guns
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