First of all, I’m not a fan of Star Wars (I used to fan Harrison Ford in the second phase). I brushed 6 prequels of the main pass more than a decade ago, but I didn’t feel much about it, so I looked back and wanted to make up. When I added three new movies, I almost couldn't remember what the six long movies said, so I had to add it again. Maybe it was a different age, but this time I saw some feelings and thoughts.
My own two brushes are based on the chronological order of the story, first the prequel and then the front pass, but I still have to start with EP4, because this is the basis and tone of the whole series. What is the basis? It's the Force, it's the lightsaber, it's the battleship and the aircraft, it's the Stormtrooper and the Jedi, it's the 3PO and R2D2, and it's not Star Wars without these. What is the tone? It is a bizarre alien race, an imaginary alien scenery, a confrontation between light and darkness, and an opera-style story of justice over evil. This tone has achieved Star Wars in a sense, but also limits it. Star Wars.
Many people will say that from the current perspective, EP4 is actually an old story, slow-paced, and half-cents of special effects. It is only a special era that has created a new type of sci-fi commercial blockbuster, so it is of great value. But if you really watch the film carefully, do you know that this statement is arbitrary or even divorced from reality, and the special effects are half a century? Maybe it doesn’t look cool now, but all the special effects are not in play (the EP6 jungle warfare is a little bit), and the atmosphere is in place. The key is the first-class aesthetics and imagination. Even now, the fighters of both sides The designs of, battleships, and Millennium Falcon are still beautiful, not at all earthy (even if the battleship looks so plastic, the texture of the later period is still a plus), R2D2 and 3PO are eternal cute gods, and aliens are strangely shaped. Lots, but it’s fun. I really like Jabba, especially the scene where Han Solo steps on his tail. According to me, this is simply a model case of how to make high-quality special effects with a limited budget and extremely low technical force. What is the difference?
Is it slow? Except for the early stage, the period between the two robots when Quettain starts to when luke meets Obiwan is a little slower (mostly because the two robots are kidnapped and the ears are full of alien language), where is the slower? Whether it’s the amount of information, the scenes, the action scenes, and the little humor, how good the scene of the three in the trash dump is, how great is the part where the plane rushes into the death star behind, really want to talk about the rhythm, the rhythm of EP6 is not good , EP1 is really slow, the other 4 are fine, and EP5 is especially good. It's definitely not an old film just because it's slow, and the stereotype is not bad.
Then the story is old-fashioned. The unknown person is actually a man who has grown up and became a hero. I am not opposed to this formulation. I always think that commercial movies should be routine stories. It is a commercial movie to tell a routine story to look good. What’s more, Luke’s hang is not too much. Seeing Darth Vader, he can only run. The Force can only be guided by a missile. Lorraine is so crushing).
So in summary, EP4, which pioneered the concept of "sci-fi blockbuster" in one fell swoop, is the key to this is a movie with a strong quality, which strips away any feelings, historical value, such and other things, first of all It is also a good-looking movie. The story is up to the standard, the acting skills of all the staff are excellent, the director has excellent control of the scene and the rhythm, and the conceptual design level is so high that it breaks through the sky. Whether it is Star Wars or not, it is a good movie. The current evaluation of the new three films is not good, and this point is essentially ignored. No matter how much feelings there are, a movie is first of all a movie. A good Star Wars movie must first be a good movie.
Let’s conclude by saying that on the one hand, EP4 is really good, and on the other hand, it also leaves hidden dangers for the follow-up. It mainly lies in the theme of justice over evil. The theme of Star Wars is actually quite interesting. In the derivative works, the world view is extremely large, political, economic and military. It is involved. The establishment of the empire is by no means without reason, but in the movie, the villain boss is like the villain in the 8 o’clock cartoon. The empire is a symbol of evil and is to resist. As for why there is an empire and why The republic became an empire when the King Pao raised his arms. Why did the New Zealand have the first order after 30 years? This is not important, or it cannot be said in the movie. This is a very fairy tale approach (I strongly suspect that Disney is fancy this point), in the context of the Cold War at the time (people are used to having an evil boss), and the EP4 section does not show the overall story, such a simple justice There is nothing wrong with the evil opposition, but when the story continues to unfold, such a simple way of operation seems to be unable to round the story (let's talk about it when we talk about the prequel later). In itself, it is not that the story cannot be pushed down in the subsequent movies, but the early fairy tales set the tone of the audience and the story. Going to complicate (not dark) has great commercial risks. After all, how many Does anyone want to analyze the flaws of the republic in the Star Wars movie?
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