Star Wars
Movie • 1977 • Sci-Fi
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Retitled Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope in 1981.
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.
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Are there abusive parents?
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Darth Vader kidnaps and tortures his daughter, however at this point he does not know that they are related
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Darth Vader is a former slave. He is very much now the abuser.
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Addiction
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Characters drink at a bar. No one is shown to have addition issues.
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Are there snakes?
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there is a snake-like alien creature however
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There's dog-fighting as in fighter jets shooting each other, but no actual dogs being forced to fight :)
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Technically the krayt dragon bones
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Leia's pet droid, Lola, is known in canon to die in the destruction of Alderaan. This is not shown on-screen.
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A skeleton of a Krayt Dragon is depicted but it's not discernible or identified as a dragon.
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Does a horse die?
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Luke is held underwater by an alien creature
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Is someone choked?
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Twice by Darth Vader, the first time is physical choking that results in a fatality, the other is with the Force but stopped before the victim is killed.
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Characters are choked from a distance and some die from this.
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Is there amputation?
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a character has his arm removed and it is shown severed and bloody on the ground
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Is someone tortured?
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Princess Leia is tortured for the location of the rebel base by darth vader, but it is not explicit and there is no blood
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Does someone fall to their death?
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A stormtrooper falls into a bottomless pit with a yelp after being shot.
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Are any hands damaged?
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Someone's arm is sliced off with a lightsaber. (You don't see the act, However, you do see the aftermath of said arm. Blood is shown)
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Not in the film itself, but the original poster drew Luke and Leia with revealing outfits and exaggerated proportions when they’re 15 in this film.
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Does a kid die?
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A populated planet is destroyed, but none of the inhabitants are shown
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Death
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Does a family member die?
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Leia Organa's entire adoptive family dies in the destruction of Alderaan.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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The destruction of Alderaan also destroyed Leia's toy droid, Lola, though this is not shown in the film.
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Does a parent die?
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Owen and Beru, Luke's parent figures, are killed off-screen and we are shown their smoking corpses. Bail and Breha, Leia's parents, are killed when Alderaan is blown up
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Are there ghosts?
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Helpful spirit.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Alderaan is an Earth-like planet with oceans.
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Is there audio gore?
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The neck of the Rebel trooper that Darth Vader strangles can be heard snapping.
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Syringe device is shown, with involuntary injection not shown but implied.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Several characters are nearly crushed in a closing room.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Is there screaming?
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Even a Wilhelm Scream at one point
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
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No antisemitism but the Imperial uniforms are based on N*zis.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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They’re not as frequently criticized as Jar Jar, Watto, or the Neimodians but the Tusken Raiders and Jawas appear first here. The Tuskens are an “always chaotic evil” race (in this film, anyways) and embody either Indigenous or Arab stereotypes depending on who you ask. Jawas are Romani stereotypes who steal and lie to their customers. Both races are aliens but their portrayal is still outdated.
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Are there fat jokes?
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Fat person is named “Porkins”
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Does an LGBT person die?
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TK-421 is gay according to external material. The film itself doesn’t imply that he is, though, so this probably doesn’t count as “bury your gays.”
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Race
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Is religion discussed?
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If you find Jediism triggering, then the religious themes in the film will certainly disturb you.
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There is no incest in the Star Wars series. Two characters that jokingly flirt with one another are later revealed to be siblings, but they do not have any form of sexual contact.
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Obi wan forgets about owning R4-P17. Not dementia though.
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A variety of starships crash and are destroyed. None closely resemble a passenger airplane.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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I fictional weapon of mass destruction destroys an inhabited planet.
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Is there blood/gore?
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An arm is severed and shown bloody on the ground. Several burnt skeletal corpses are shown.
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Fictional sci-fi guns.
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