¡Saludos gente de Hive!
Greetings people of Hive! !
Today I bring you a topic that I have always wanted to talk about in a free space like Hive, being one of the sagas that marked my childhood Star Wars. This time I will talk about the first film that made me enter into this wide universe of content Episode I The Phantom Menace, the first film with which the trilogy of the prequels was released in 1999 and ending its plot in the sixth film Episode VI Return of the Jedi. Besides talking briefly about the movie telling the points that I consider important, I will tell you my experience as a fan watching the movie again after years and if you have not seen anything of Star Wars, my goal is to encourage you hahaha. Without more to add, let's start!

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Hace mucho tiempo en una galaxia muy muy...lejana
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, far away
And so we receive the tape with the mythical phrase which indicates where the story takes place, in a distant galaxy where everything seems to have passed normally, this Galaxy is governed by "The Republic" a government entity that is responsible for legislating the political laws of its member planets and neutral, with a democratic system of government at first glance. However, this peace is interrupted on one of the neutral planets by an economic blockade in the independent system of Naboo, the blockade is managed by a system of traders called "The Trade Federation".

[Fuente](https://www.filmaffinity.com/ve/filmimages.php?movie_id=267008)
As the Republic needs evidence to intervene, it sends two ambassadors to negotiate, who turn out to be two Jedi knights, an order of neural warriors that has principle peace, being currently in the service of the Republic to maintain order in the galaxy. But everything would turn out the opposite when our protagonists Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) set a trap for them and they are forced to flee to the planet, the following act the blockade begins to send an army of Droids towards the planet Naboo to force the queen Amidala (Natalie Portman) to sign a treaty that benefits economically the federation, beginning this way a planetary invasion.

[Fuente](https://www.filmaffinity.com/ve/filmimages.php?movie_id=267008)
Estancia en Tatooine
Stay on Tatooine
Our protagonists manage to reach the planet and rescue the queen in time before the Droids, starting a journey in space to reach the headquarters of the Republic in the core of the galaxy, but are again frustrated as their ship suffered damage while trying to flee the system and are forced to land on a rural planet called Tatooine, far from the jurisdiction of the Republic and where mafias and criminal syndicates rule the planet. In their quest to get spare parts for their ship, they meet a young man named Anakin Skyawolker (Jake Lloyd) who helps them and gives them lodging on the sandy planet. Anakin immediately realizes that our protagonists are Jedi by looking at his waist where he kept his lightsaber, the honorable weapon of every Jedi knight, and lets Qui-Gon know, sharing his dream of being a Jedi who brings freedom and peace, this makes Qui-Gon interested in the boy because he also detects something unusual about him. This leads Qui-Gon to do some quick blood tests on Anakin and he realizes that his nature and connection to the Force, the power that gives the Jedi their abilities and shapes all living things, Anakin seems to have a great sensitivity above and beyond the average of any jedi, coinciding with an ancient prophecy, of the chosen one who will bring balance to the force.

[Fuente](https://www.filmaffinity.com/ve/filmimages.php?movie_id=267008)
At the end of getting a place where they sold the spare parts of the ship, being very expensive they do not have enough money to pay for them, they resort to the other way to get something on the planet that is "betting". So Qui-Gon bets with the owner of the spare parts who is also Anakin's slaver, the bet is that if Anakin wins the race they will get the spare parts and the boy's freedom, since he was convinced of his intuitions that the boy is the chosen one of the Force. The only detail is that the races on Tatooine are dangerous with the risk of dying and Anakin is only a 9 year old boy, adding to this that everything was being planned without the consent of Queen Amidala who waited confidently in her ship receiving messages transmitting how her people die and suffer from the invasion, without knowing that their fate depended on a 9 year old boy they barely know. Against all odds and luck Anakin is the winner and gets the spare parts and his freedom. However to honor the title of the film an attacker as a ghost appears in the desert and attacks Qui-Gon and Anakin as they approached to board his ship, in a quick duel with lightsabers Qui-Gon managed to escape his assailant barely, putting rumba to Coruscant planet capital of the Republic, but now Qui-Gon carries a major concern, the mysterious enemy has all the characteristics of the ancient enemies of the Jedi, the Sith.

[Fuente](https://www.filmaffinity.com/ve/filmimages.php?movie_id=267008)
Llegada a Coruscant
Arrival at Coruscant
The Jedi head to the Jedi high council, the highest body that leads the entire Jedi order composed of the wisest and most powerful Jedi masters of the time, Qui-Gon heads to give his report of what happened on his journey. Meanwhile Queen Amidala heads to the Galactic Senate, the body that leads the Republic made up of millions of systems loyal to the Republic and is presided over by the supreme Chancellor, unfortunately both did not have the expected results. The Jedi Council did not believe that the enemy that attacked Qui-Gon was a Sith since they considered them extinct for a thousand years and with respect to Anakin they do not want to train him because they consider him old for his age and also perceive an uncertain future in him, a decision that Qui-Gon rejects defying the council. On the side of the queen, she is given the floor in the senate to denounce the blockade and invasion of the federation of commerce to her planet and ask for a military intervention, but due to the bureaucracy that abounds in the senators and the inefficiency of the Chancellor, the queen decides to return to her planet to free it herself. The council orders Qui-Gon and his Padawan Obi-Wan to protect the queen at all costs and find out more about this supposed Lor Sith.

[Fuente](https://www.filmaffinity.com/ve/filmimages.php?movie_id=267008)
De regreso a Naboo
Return to Naboo
Once on the planet again, the queen allies with the primitive natives of the planet to fight a battle on land, while their pilots infiltrate the palace to find their ships and lead a battle in space and destroy the blockade. And so it was, with the detail that Anakin accidentally gets trapped in one of those ships while seeking to hide, but thanks to his experience as a pilot and latent skills in the force manages to survive and also destroy the main ship of the blockade. Meanwhile the queen and her Jedi protectors manage to infiltrate the palace to capture the leader of the invasion, but they meet again with mystery attacker Darth Maul (Ray Park) who without thinking activates his red double-bladed lightsaber followed by Qui-Gon and Obi Wan starting an intense battle with lightsabers with the background music composed by the master Jon William "Duels of the fate".

[Fuente](https://www.filmaffinity.com/ve/filmimages.php?movie_id=267008)

[Fuente](https://www.filmaffinity.com/ve/filmimages.php?movie_id=267008)
At the end of the battle the Jedi manage to win and the queen manages to defeat the invasion of their planet, but with a very high price, Qui-Gon was killed by the Sith and Obi-Wan in an attack of I will go and desestra manages to kill the Sith Lord barely, also in the last moments of Qui-Gon this makes him promise his apprentice to train Anakin leaving his last words "Obi-Wan, train the muchacho....él is ... the chosen one .... With him there will be balance".

[Fuente](https://www.filmaffinity.com/ve/filmimages.php?movie_id=267008)
Comentarios y experiencia
Comments and experience
Truly, as a Star Wars fan since 2009, it was a great experience for me to return to this gem of a movie. I am one of the fans who grew up and started in this saga with the trilogy of the prequels that just starts with this movie, being for me to live again that moment of suspense, joy, action and sadness for the end hahaha. Also this time I had the opportunity to see the movie in the company of my partner who to my surprise ended up liking it and now needs to know what happens in the next two movies that are missing hahahaha for me it was totally new since I have always seen Star Wars alone, but it was funny to witness their reactions and comments to the scenes and obviously we both wanted to cry at the end hahahaha.
There is definitely no denying that the plot immerses you little by little in a symbolic representation towards the conflicts we see in the day, injustices, corruption, deceit, political conflicts and mistrust all that is and remains in our history. That is why I will always say that Star Wars is educational and thought provoking.
Well, this is the end of today's post, I hope you liked reading it and that I have awakened in you a little bit of curiosity about this huge saga. Be glad to read your comments and know your opinions. Until next time my young Padawans!
***Que la Fuerza los acompañe***
***May the Force be with you all***
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