Each era has its own legends, and each generation has its own emotional memory. An art treasure, because it is unique and impossible to reproduce, makes it a classic.
However, for the series of films, can the classics be continued and passed on, maybe, but this kind of adventure has to pay a price, lose the balance, and it may not be successful. In 1973, George Lucas took the "Star Wars" script and went around looking for film companies to shoot. In the end, only Twentieth Century Fox barely paid the bill. During the filming, there were constant disputes between the two sides. Fox regretted that he had voted for this film more than once. After the film came out, no filmmaker was optimistic about this work, except for Spielberg.
But under such circumstances, "New Hope" changed the pattern of the entire Hollywood commercial film with a gamble, and the Star Wars series was out of control since then, just like the Big Bang.
Under the attention of the world (of course I know that Asian Star Wars is not popular), the Star Wars series, which has the longest, most profitable and most far-reaching influence, has once again reached the final chapter "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" .
On the first day of the show, I did it three times. Even so, it’s difficult to balance the confusion that the film gave me. Today we will use confusion as the key word to talk about the last episode of the Star Wars Skywalker Legend "The Rise of Skywalker" .
Plot
Before analyzing "Star Wars 9", in order for everyone to clear the plot, I have to quickly re-organize the story of "Star Wars 9". Of course, you can also go out and turn left to see what I do. A 1-hour review and analysis of the entire series of Star Wars.
The following all involve spoilers, 3, 2, 1
At the beginning of "Star Wars 9", the long-hidden ultimate villain appeared. He was also the biggest boss emperor Palpatine in the entire Star Wars series. Kyloren found him and agreed to his condition, that is, as long as Kai Loren promised that by killing Rey, he would have command of thousands of star destroyers. This fleet was called the "Last Legion". It turned out that the former 7 and 8 First Order warships were only Palpatine's The appetizer, and the snooker, is just a puppet made by Palpatine.
On the other hand, Rey was being trained as a Jedi warrior by Leah. When the rebels learned that Palpatine was still alive, Rey and Finn embarked on an adventure in order to obtain a coordinate instrument that indicated the last legion to be stationed. . They went to the desert planet to get the dagger to get the code, but Chubacca was caught, and then they ran to the snowy planet to unlock the code with 3PO, and then went to the Star Destroyer to rescue Chubacca.
During the period, Rey finally knew her life experience. It turned out that Rey was Palpatine's granddaughter, so she had the super dark force with Palpatine to release lightning, Surprise... Then they went on and went to one The planet of the daily tsunami, where there are the remains of the Death Star, the coordinate machine is inside, where Rey and Kyloren have a lightsaber duel.
In the end, Rey managed to escape and Kailoren’s father, Han Solo,’s memory appeared. Under the background of the beating waves of one by one, under the inspiration of Han Solo, Kailuoren staged the real prodigal son. He became a good person, and his mother, Princess Leia, died at this time. Rey returned to Luke’s small island star and wanted to learn Luke’s retreat from now on, but at this time Luke’s heroes appeared at the right time. Luke successfully persuaded Rey to fight to the end and all the Jedi Knights would be with you.
So Rey set off to go to Palpatine's lair. By the way, he also sent the route to the rebels. The rebels told the world to let everyone fight Palpatine and the last legion.
The final moment of the battle was divided into Rey and Kyloren playing against Palpatine, and the rebels fought against the Star Destroyer fleet. Palpatine originally wanted Rey to kill himself, become one with his granddaughter and become the strongest Sith, but he didn’t expect that the real strongest combination would be Kyloren and Rey, one yin and one yang. The force balances, Palpatine absorbs the balance force of the two and makes himself radiant, but unfortunately it only returns to the light, Rey's small universe bursts out, says I AM ALL JEDI, and kills Palpatine. The rebels also won victory, destroying the newly shipped Star Destroyer fleet. Rey and Kyloren also gave their first kiss on the screen of Star Wars, after which Kyloren also turned into the Force.
Finally, Rey brought Luke and Leah's two lightsabers back to Tatooine. Under the reflection of the two suns, Rey Skywalker Jedi was rising.
"Star Wars 9" Puzzle 1: Split
As a sane Star Wars fan, I never choose sides, let alone join in some scolding battles of extreme Star Wars fans. I will treat all Star Wars works from a very tolerant perspective and recognize the stars. The feelings of war, of course, also accept the various innovations and surprises of Star Wars.
But this time "Star Wars 9" really made me split. This split was actually buried in "Star Wars 7". When "Star Wars 8" began to sprout and grow, "Star Wars 9" Become the existence that confuses me.
So I can only split the conversation. Let me talk about the advantages first . No matter how the Star Wars 9 is scolded and scored low, but frankly speaking, in the eyes of Star Wars fans, do you really pay attention to scores? Why don't you go to the cinema with a low score? Maybe we are asking ourselves more in our hearts whether this is the finale of the Star Wars world in my mind. "Star Wars 9" did a better job of rendering the atmosphere this time than the previous two, which also added a lot of humorous embellishments, the plot reversal also increased, the mysteries were revealed one after another, and the feeling cards were one after another.
The lightsaber duel between Rey and Kailoren on the sea is even more exciting. The surrounding tsunami is brewing the emotions and moods of the characters, and the sea water is smashed into waves and waving the lightsaber, making people feel the energy of the duel. In the decisive battle against Palpatine, Pa's lightning ultimatum is indeed amazing and there is such a show operation.
In the film, when I watch the familiar old characters appear and leave, I will feel melancholy and teary eyes, and everything will come to an end.
At the end, Rey went to Tatooine alone and saw Luke’s former home buried for half of the time by the dust. It was also a trance that time flew by. It reminded me once again that Luke decided to venture into the vast universe. We During the adventures with him, I can even think of Anakin meeting her mentor Kui Gangjin in Tatooine. Kui Gangjin gave Anakin the responsibility and fate of life, and you will bring balance to the Force.
When Rey also faced the two suns and reflected her back in the waving of the dust, all the troubles and predicaments were calm.
The soundtrack of the movie is of course the most iconic. The composer John Williams's existence like a god does not need to be introduced. The familiar Star Wars melodies in "Star Wars 9" are changed one after another, which makes the light more dazzling and also Make the darkness deeper, and at the same time push the feelings and memories to the extreme.
When you really integrate "Star Wars 9" and previous Star Wars works, you can feel the sincerity of this work, especially when I am already familiar with the rhythm and plot of the second brush and third brush, in some memories and In the parting scene, I was touched. But, everything is there. But right, the flaws of "Star Wars 9" also make me unavoidable.
In one sentence, "Star Wars 9" is too full, but everything is set too hastily.
Although the duration of "Star Wars 9" is 142 minutes, the main and branch plots are packed, and various events are overwhelmed. It is a good thing that the plot is full, but overflowing and the rhythm is not in place, it becomes emotional empathy. not good.
"Star Wars 9" originally had a lot of places that should have touched me very much. It was completely broken by the overfilled narrative. Before the mood was brewing, it rushed you to the next event. And every reversal and the trend of the plot are almost completely within my preset range.
Rey’s life experience, Leah had to leave, Han Solo and Luke appeared, the rebels would not lose, Palpatine would die, everything happened very quickly, and disappeared very quickly, too late to sort out the mood, just Go to the next process.
Let me say that with such a heavy Star Wars epic and content volume, as the last of the nine Star Wars "Legends of Skywalker", "Star Wars 9" is divided into two works, which is not a problem at all.
It’s not that I’m going to help Disney make money and say that it will be split into two, so many new and old characters, so many people and things have to be put to an end, and there are wonderful action scenes. A movie is long and difficult to complete. set objectives. The Marvel Universe has brewed nearly 20 final villains Thanos. The final battle will be divided into "Avengers 3" and "Avengers 4". Compared with Palpatine in "Star Wars 9", it is simply paper. Yes, it looks mighty, but it completely loses the wit and courage of the first six parts.
Perhaps if starting from 7, remove the mystery of pretending to be ghosts and let Palpatine return directly, maybe the audience's accumulation of emotions towards this villain can be deeper.
"Star Wars 9" Confusion 2: Is it worth denying the past?
I watched 3 games of "Star Wars 9", and when the film was shown to Kailoren and said that Rey was Palpatine's granddaughter, the audience was very quiet.
Why, because everyone has already guessed (or is ready), starting from the digging of Rey’s life experience in Part 7, everyone has guessed Rey’s life experience, Obi-Wan, Luke, Han Solo , Kui Gangjin, Dooku, of course guess how Palpatine is missing from the list. Some people even contacted the recently popular "Mandalorian", saying that Rey has a relationship with the Mandalorian. So when the mystery of Rey's life was revealed, I didn't have too many disturbances, and "I am your father" is the most inverted stalk in history. One stalk is used twice. For me, the effect is really average.
A classic life experience reversed and used again, how many people pay the bill? This may not be as simple as playing a love card. The revealing of Rey’s identity has almost concluded the trilogy of the posterior, but still dare not venture to explore a new character and world, unwilling to glorify the glory before the curtain call It is to continue to sing elegies along the royal blood. The emergence of Palpatine further reflects that the creators are unwilling to spend a lot of time on the setting of the villain. "Star Wars 9" holds the once glorious history of Star Wars and dare not take risks. It is precisely the adventure of Star Wars. The most interesting irony of the theme series.
Do you know that when I learned about Rey’s life and that the villain that Rey will eventually fight against is Palpatine, I shed tears. This is not a surprise, nor is it moving, but I’m not for Darth Vader and Luke? value! Anakin lived in the impoverished Tatooine and developed C3PO in order to share a little farm work for his mother. A child with a naive and superb intelligence might one day be able to get out of Tatooine by virtue of his own abilities. Go on your own life.
But this time Kui Gangjin came and told Anakin's mission to defeat the Sith and bring balance to the Force, so Anakin believed and followed. After that, he stupidly fell in love with the love of his life, Padmé, but when he knew that Padmé was about to die unexpectedly, he chose to protect his lover and gave up the world. Anakin plunged into the darkness that he thought could revive his love. Power, but it turned out to be Darth Vader. But in the end, Darth Vader was still infected by his son Luke, redeeming himself and annihilating Palpatine. Although there were several twists and turns, it also brought balance to the Force.
This is a living tragedy, but this tragedy can reveal light from the cracks and illuminate the entire galaxy. And the current post-Star Wars trilogy almost completely negates the credit of Darth Vader and Luke. It turns out that there is no balance. Palpatine is still alive after being cut off. Then he will be able to retreat for 30 years and make a comeback. , The real mission and task, the person who brings light and balance to the Force, is not Darth Vader, but Rey. The more deadly blow is that Rey has nothing to do with Darth Vader, she Palpatine's blood was flowing on him.
The gameplay of "Star Wars 9" is tantamount to not waiting to see the characters accumulated from the previous six Star Wars works, and even treating these characters as fools.
You said, I see here, can I be confused.
"Star Wars 9" Confusion 3: Unreasonable
Well, let’s not go so far, forget the previous 6 old Star Wars works, and just discuss the relationship between the three works 7, 8, and 9. There are also many unreasonable logical problems.
When "Star Wars 7" came out, Star Wars fans were already whispering. Isn't this the remake of "Star Wars 4: A New Hope" more than 30 years ago, but under the catalysis of our feelings, we recognized and agreed In this carnival, "Star Wars 7" won an amazing reputation and box office results, and people's doubts about "Star Wars 7" disappeared invisible.
At the same time, "Star Wars 7" also opened a door for new fans. The combination of new and old characters allows us to see more possibilities and expectations for the follow-up of Star Wars. So we eagerly look forward to "Star Wars 8", which is still very popular, but the split has begun to form. People who like it love it very much. I am one of them. The most controversial interpretation of the Force and Luke's personality.
The word-of-mouth and box office of "Star Wars 8" has also begun to shrink to a certain extent. Therefore, the KPI task of "Star Wars 9" is here: the first is to guard the feelings of the previous 40 years of Star Wars, and the second is to open and expand the 7 and 8 new Star Wars universe channels, as well as fill the holes 7 and The mystery left by 8 will finally come to a successful conclusion to the trilogy series, with various comprehensive indexes that must be met. In the end, "Star Wars 9" became what it is now, and the film became a doomed one. Works that will increase the division.
This split existed as early as between 7 and 8. The character’s OOC originally had a logical flaw. It would be even more difficult to leave it to the 9th part to solve it. There are so many things to be finished in the 9th part, why? Also care about the OOC of the role.
So "Star Wars 9" couldn't take care of that much, and it didn't make sense.
For example, the character of Finn, the seventh part is Finn and Rey, the eighth part is Finn and the new character Rose, and the ninth part is with a new black actress. I know that there is no oath of love between Finn and them. This thing, but the use of CP ambiguous combination is not an exaggeration. Each Finn has a different combination and mashup, which will greatly reduce the empathy of the audience to the role.
This also makes the relationship between Rey and Finn messy. There are waves that are even more exaggerated. In the 7th part, his role is pitiful, and the 8th part has been completed from a radical stupor to a leader in the overall situation of Gu Quan, but at the beginning of the 9th part, it seems to be back. The dispensable role puts the key to the reversal of the rebel defeat on Landau.
There are no characters and no emotional accumulation and continuity, which makes it easy for people to play and lose empathy. There are so many characters and characters in the post-trilogy, it is already dizzying to ignore one and the other. When the original trilogy was passed, Luke, Leah and Solo were always impressed by the trio team. The three of them have gone through the precipitation of the three works of "Star Wars 4, 5, 6", which is impressive. Find the fixed label of their Audio-Technica combination.
In the main event, it showed us how the Rebels disintegrated the imperial army step by step.
The focus of the characters in "Star Wars 1, 2, 3" is on Anakin's growth experience from light to darkness, and the major events are on the historical torrent of how the Republic has moved toward a dictatorship.
In the political metaphor of the event, the main story and the prequel are also one of the most talked-about topics in the Star Wars series. As mentioned above, the relationship between the characters in "Star Wars 7, 8, 9" has a sense of grafting, and has been unable to find the inherent coordinate relationship of the characters.
In the big event, the meaning behind it is so simple that it is astounding, especially in "Star Wars 9", to stand up a bad villain, and then toppling everyone happy at the end.
In "Star Wars 9", the Resistance finally won effortlessly. Although the battle seems to be fierce, everyone has also seen that the series of Star Destroyer appeared at the beginning, and then they were crushed in one fell swoop after more than 2 hours. It's as short as fireworks.
It is not how strong the decent is, but the villain is too weak, and there is no strong enough villain, how can you make the decent look hard and worthwhile?
"Star Wars 9" Confusion 4: The Force's Disputes
The Force’s views and explanations are the most quarrelsome among Star Wars fans. I am actually very tolerant of the Force. Even when I come to this "Star Wars 9", I think I can accept some of the new settings, but at the same time I can understand that these new settings, The philosophy and profound meaning of the Force are being decomposed step by step.
Why is the Force of the Star Wars series so fascinating at first? The power and imagination of the Force are one of them, but not the most important, the most important is the affinity of the Force. This affinity comes from the reality of the Force. It seems to be explained by a series of physical phenomena and logic. Perhaps people who grow up in a distant galaxy under a special environment can indeed have the operation to control the Force, and want to be good. With the force, you must become an ascetic monk and devote your life to training to become a Jedi knight.
The heart is like standing water, self-improvement, and not happy with things or sad for oneself. These philosophies from Eastern theology, fairness and justice in the West, and the fatalism of ancient Greek tragedies have all been integrated into the philosophical core of the Force.
It is precisely because of this that the Force and the Jedi Knights are even jokingly called the world's fifth largest religion. In the hearts of many Star Wars fans, they still have inherent system value to the Force.
The reason why the Force is so attractive is that it is so real that we don’t want to break this veil of mystery, so we want to believe at any time. The Force is all around, but we mortals can’t feel it, but the Force Be with you, always be there. However, Disney's "Star Wars 7, 8, 9" gradually broke the mystery of The Force, deliberately or unintentionally, and boldly set the Force's new operations and functions. To put it vulgarly, it is to treat the Force as a hot one. Equipment, every piece of this equipment must be upgraded. In the 8th part, the Star Wars fans had split the Force. By the 9th part, it doesn't matter.
The Universe FaceTime is nothing more than express delivery in the air, and the heroic spirits. Palpatine's last big lightning looks very shocking, but if the Force can be controlled by one person like this, what will the army do? , What do we need to do with politics (it is true that the post-Star Wars trilogy has lost its political power). Palpatine was able to make the entire rebel army hit by lightning in an instant, and even Thanos did not dare to say that he had such a strong ability, and Thanos had to wear Infinite Gloves.
That's right, by the time of "Star Wars 9", the Force seems to have become an infinite glove in disguise. Whoever can get the virgin yin and yang innocence can have supreme superpowers.
The Force was no longer real and mysterious, but began to be separated from me by a layer of screen. I looked at the Force on the screen so powerful, but it had nothing to do with me. After Rey was sucked out of energy, Rey broke out again in the small universe, which made Palpatine, who possessed the supreme force, ultimately couldn't do the more infinitely powerful force contained in Rey's body.
What this means means that Disney not only uses the Force as an upgrade tool, but also creates superheroes. Rey is a superhero with unlimited abilities to explore.
Having said so much, I still said that, I did not reject such a Force setting, but the setting of Force and Rey in "Star Wars 9" really puzzled me, and this is exactly what Star Wars fans are tearing apart. Incentives and status quo.
"Star Wars 9" Confusion 5: The Future
You might say that from Star Wars 7 to 9, the box office has been selling well. Although word of mouth has gone from bad to worse, many people still feel that this is a successful trilogy afterwards.
In fact, I have talked so much today, I did not deny "Star Wars 9" and the post-queen trilogy, and I also recognize that the post-queen trilogy is a huge commercial success, because there is no other series that can resemble a star. The War series is as long-lived, and every new work can turn the tide, you really can't find a second IP similar to Star Wars in the history of movies.
So my sub-chapter title is not to point out the problems of "Star Wars 9," but the confusion that "Star Wars 9" gave me. Perhaps this kind of confusion Disney is also looking for a solution. Starting from "Star Wars 7", what Disney has seen and valued most is that the original Star Wars brand and influence are still there, so the feelings cannot be lost! There can be no less, especially in the final chapter of "Star Wars 9".
It is true that in terms of feelings, "Star Wars 9" has infected most Star Wars fans, including me, but feelings are still a residual value after all, which can be clearly felt in "Star Wars 9". The feelings of Star Wars can be seen in this movie. To describe it as squeezing dry, no matter from the narrative structure or the relationship between the characters, the whole "Star Wars 9" is like the Star Wars series of Big End, all the characters that can appear, the tear-gas settings and memories that can be used are all done. Again. "Star Wars 9" brought Star Wars fans together again, crying and laughing together, and then watching the two suns once again expressing the passage of time and the time wasted.
It took Disney four years to re-weave a magnificent feast of visual feelings, which makes people have to sigh the charm of movie dreams.
This Star Wars dream will continue. According to the original plan, Star Wars will launch "Star Wars 10" in 2022. Of course, this plan may be adjusted by various data in "Star Wars 9", and I will still continue Be a sane Star Wars fan, to welcome the new Star Wars world. After all, feelings are like a pot of good wine. People will get drunk if they drink it, but the wine will have a day when it is finished, and the audience will also have the process of updating and iterating.
Perhaps many years later, everyone accepted the stronger and more exciting force setting, and then laughed at the original interpretation of the force, and the audience who stood by the force and sympathized with Darth Vader have disappeared. In the crowd...
Or maybe, many years later, people don’t care what the force is, and don’t care about the stories that happened in that distant galaxy...
I’m Da Cong, maybe you love this "Star Wars 9" very much, or you are as confused about "Star Wars 9" like me, and even you think "Star Wars 9" is not satisfactory, but I will tell you, May the force be with you, Always!
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