Visually, what "Star Wars" attracts us is the construction of huge galaxies, dazzling high-tech, rich and diverse planetary creatures. But these are not the core, what is the main core of "Star Wars"? It's people, individual people (the protagonist's growth and fate), and a bunch of people-politics. "Star Trek" (TV version), which has many similar sci-fi elements, is fundamentally different from "Star Wars".
"Star Trek" focuses on interstellar adventure. It tells different truths of life through different adventure stories, and sometimes rises to philosophical thinking. For example, there is an episode where the heroine on the planet lives in a fantasy world. In the world, she is a young beauty with blond hair and blue eyes. She can live happily and talk about love or something. However, when she returns to reality, she finds painfully that she is just an ugly creature whose whole body is highly burnt due to a spacecraft accident. . For her, is it to live soberly and happily, or to live happily dreamily?
And "Star Wars" focuses on the growth, encounter, mission, choice, and destiny of individuals; it is the political system of a group of people, the influence and role of individuals in the system, and the pros and cons of this system. The huge galaxy of "Star Wars" is just a stage, the protagonist is still human beings, it is human nature and social relations.
From the perspective of human development, Anakin is the absolute male number one in Star Wars 6 episodes. By the way, in terms of appearance, Anakin’s actor Hayden Christensen was born in 1981. He grew up with the character Anakin in prequels 2 and 3. In prequel 2, he 21 years old, playing the fledgling, sharp-edged, young and unruly young Anakin, very sticky; by the prequel 3, he is 24 years old, playing proud, powerful, ambitious, at a turning point in life, the young Anakin with the lion haircut. Jin is very sticky.
As the director said, Hayden has the innocent smile of the boy next door, and when he frowns, he exudes a dark atmosphere. This is Hayden's pitfall against Leonardo DiCaprio and many other powerful competitors. The reason for Anakin. In the prequel 2, Anakin met Queen Amidala (Senator) again after ten years. He had no scruples and Chi Guoguo looked directly at him aggressively, causing the queen to immediately throw away his helmet and armor. The words "you look at me, I am very uncomfortable" came to a dingy escape, but it was actually taken down in a second. (Well, in fact, the idiot audience has also been taken down...)
Another star of Star Wars, Luke, his growth history is a repetition of Anakin in a sense, and is far less legendary than a young genius. Nakin (think about the robot C3PO and the drag racing. Are Anakin kids doing it themselves? The kids were pitted by their opponents during the racing process, and they were repairing the car while racing at high speed. This is a magical level), The richness is far less than him. From the 6 episodes that have been filmed so far, Luke’s life is still too short. He has not experienced love and career in the breadth, nor has he experienced the ups and downs, repetitions, and impermanence of life in the length, nor has he experienced the entanglements and entanglements that are difficult to choose in depth. Pain deep into the bone marrow.
I feel that if you use the "Dragon Ball" analogy, Anakin is very similar to Vegeta. Although full of evil spirits, although he has done bad things, although it is a negative image, he can't hate him at all. And in terms of the fullness of the role, Vegeta is also more attractive than her son Trunks (Luke).
In the 6 episodes of Star Wars, Prequel 3 is considered the darkest and most cruel episode, but if I have to choose the favorite episode, I should choose Prequel 3. In this episode, Anakin’s image is complete. , The bombs laid on him by prequel 1 and 2 both detonated at the same time, and all the foreshadowings were gathered together. Moreover, although the process is dark, prequel 3 has a super bright tail. Anakin's sons and daughters were sent to different families to raise them. Their lives are about to begin, and a new chapter in the frontal battlefield is about to open.
Speaking of human nature, in fact, one of the main protagonists throughout the 6 episodes, the maintenance robot R2-D2, also has such a deep charm (cute power) because of its human "spirituality", flexibility, loyalty and tenacity. In the prequel 3, the scene where R2-D2 faces two combat robots alone is very funny. At first, it threw the noisy walkie-talkie into the drawer of the body, and slowly moved into a pile of machines to hide in order to avoid the battle. The eyes and ears of the robot were later captured by combat robots, and they playfully released acid and flames to implement defense. How do these strategies and this series of actions look like a robot in the traditional sense?
The ceremonial robot C3PO is more like a living ordinary person, with various human problems, chattering, cowardly, selfish, and self-righteous. Its existence and R2-D2 form a good complement. R2-D2 is positive. The protagonist of the robot with a halo, C3PO is a real and vivid assistant and harlequin.
A bunch of human relations-politics, is also the core issue of "Star Wars", which is particularly prominent in the prequel series. The prequel 1 is based on the political background of the Democratic Republic. However, this system quickly exposed various shortcomings after Naboo was invaded by the trade alliance and Queen Amidala fled to the "capital" Coruscant. Inefficiency, such as being eroded by corruption and losing justice.
However, the defense of the Republic and the implementation of key tasks are actually only borne by the Jedi Knights, the largest number of peacekeeping teams, which at the time was less than 10,000 people. Even if the clone troops did not implement the cruel No. 66 secret order, they carried out sneak attacks and massacres on their comrades and Jedi knights one by one. The Jedi knights who are used to fighting single-handedly are not the opponents of the ebony clone force, right?
It is precisely these obvious drawbacks that this loose democratic regime was quickly stolen by Speaker Palpatine. This process is so familiar that it has been staged many times in the textbook of world history.
I always feel that most sci-fi movies have such a problem, that science and technology have advanced rapidly, but politics seems to be a primitive routine, either a primary democracy lacking efficiency and execution, or an absolute autocratic monarchy. Is it true that humans are in society? In terms of relationship, is there no way to achieve a dramatic change? Many science fiction films have too little pen and ink in this regard, or too little wisdom.
The core of politics is the relationship between people. However, people have weaknesses and shortcomings. For example, some are greedy for money (the Republican senators), some are love (President Palpatine, Anakin), and some are selfish. , Some are timid and fearful, some delay and hesitate, and some are stubborn and self-serving. What kind of system can eliminate the influence and interference of these human weaknesses and realize effective and fair social management? This is what "Star Wars" tries to inspire us to think.
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