30th December 2015, 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by keirarts I think the motives behind the latest star wars are this. Its not so much Sci-Fi as a fantasy picture with Sci-Fi trappings, certainly not hard science. The original star wars was a film that essentially took the common themes and tropes of all story telling from Joseph Campbell's the power of myth and fused it with the aesthetic of 40's serials. Essentially the same story is told over and over with different settings ect but essentially the same stories. What fans were upset by with the prequels is while this was still there to some degree it was bogged down with political discourse as if penned by a 15 year old that was stodgy and felt out of place in Star wars. Episode VII repeats the themes of Episode IV then diverges from them at several points. Firstly this is to reassure the fans that they are back in safe hands but also to set the stage for a story that may (hopefully) distance itself from the original series while staying thematically similar. Make no mistake this is being prepped as a franchise and I suspect that the revaltions are yet to come. Therefore I posit that this is a flawed film in some regards, however many of its flaws are also present in the Lucas originals (IV, V, VI) including characters that are more broad archetypes than rounded characters, slim A-B plotting to lead onto action set pieces, and a refusal to really explain anything in great depth. Therefore it lacks the great depth of works like solaris, in trade off for actually being watch-able, and perhaps lacks the Gravitas of Christopher Nolans Interstellar but at the same time isn't trying to fool the audience into thinking its hard science when it isn't. | That probably explains why I've never really been able to get into Star Wars! When I was younger, the films just didn't hold my interest enough for me to sit down and watch them on TV and, when I was older and getting into films more seriously, I found them juvenile when compared to more darker sci-fi movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Soylent Green, Silent Running, Alien, and Solaris and thought the characters and cutting techniques 'borrowed' from Kurosawa's films (particularly The Hidden Fortress).
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