The production went over schedule, over budget, and hardly anybody particularly believed in it, from the increasingly testy cast and crew to some of the producers at Fox. Star Wars’ torturous path to the silver screen is well documented. What’s all the more remarkable about Star Wars’ first shot is that it was among the last to be completed. It’s arguable that the sequence helps set the tone for the entire film from both a visual and aural standpoint, bracing us for a galactic fairytale that is dramatic and faintly surreal. Legend has it that audiences whooped and cheered when they first clapped eyes on those soaring vessels back in the 1970s.
It’s the perfect visual representation of the tiny rebellion pitched against the fascist might of the Empire.įurther Reading: Everything We Know About Star Wars Episode IX The Star Destroyer, on the other hand, is gigantic and streamlined, like a huge sword honed to a fine point. The first ship, a Blockade Runner, is small and somehow ramshackle looking, its battery of huge engines strapped awkwardly to its narrow hull.
A viewer could completely ignore the scene-setting scroll up of text and still get an idea of what Star Wars was about from that single image. Like all great cinema, it told acres of story without a word being spoken. Yet that opening shot was far more than merely a fancy special effect.
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