"May the Fourth" be with you on Star Wars Day

"The sets are amazing. The props are amazing", so says Gerry Canavan, an English professor at Marquette University who sounds like a Star Wars fan himself. Canavan says: "If you think of the first 20 most iconic sounds in science fiction, how many are you going to name from Star Wars? From the light saber, to the blaster, to R2D2 beeping, It creates this world that you can kind of just live in. And the world of Star Wars comes back to theaters in a new movie this month.

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