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"Star Wars 8: The Last Jedi" (referred to as "Star Wars 8") triggered an unprecedented differentiation in the reputation of Star Wars movies, with the same critics Praise, Star Wars fans fully condemned. The key to most controversies falls on the four words "departure from the classics".
The old heroes farewell to the stage.
In the classic Star Wars "True Trilogy", Luke Skywalker defeated the Sith (note 1) and saved Darth Vader (note 2) back to the bright side of the Force. A new generation of legends who have revived the reputation of the Jedi. Princess Leia led the rebels to overthrow the tyranny of the empire, and married the gang hero Han Solo, who had an increasingly correct attitude, and the galaxy seemed to have finally opened a new page in peace.
However, 32 years after the release of the main finale "Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi", the first Star Wars movie "Star Wars 7: The Force Awakens" in the post-Galactic Civil War (Note 3) era is about the above hopes. overthrow. Han Solo and Leia are separated, and they take their old friend Chubacca back to the smuggling circle in the middle and lower layers of the galaxy. Master Skywalker is missing, and the Force and Jedi have become myths such as Raid in the Heavenly Palace and Exodus.
In the latest "Star Wars 8", Luke finally appeared, but fell into a reclusive decadent old man waiting to die. Leia was in a hurry and led a group of resistance organization members to escape the pursuit of the new force, the First Legion. Her biological son Ben Solo was renamed Kylo Ren and was the ultimate executor of this hunt. As for Han Solo? Anyone who has watched "Star Wars 7" knows that he was cut by his son a long time ago.
It can be seen that "Star Wars 8" negates the legendary and heroic deeds of the true story. The Star Wars fans who witnessed Luke's growth from a poor farmer to a Jedi master, witnessed Leia's transformation from a noble princess to an uprising pioneer, and witnessed Han Solo's transformation from a gangster to a lover, are inevitably difficult to accept such an ending.
Someone defended such a radical setting in this way: the times are advancing, and the story of Star Wars can no longer be confined to the frame of the old hero. Although the "Big Three" of Luke, Leia, and Han Solo have left (Note 4), new heroes such as Rey, Finn, and Po Dameron have awakened. These new generations of characters do not have the prominent background of the old heroes, and each walked from obscurity to the big stage of the galaxy, representing a new era spirit of "princes and generals, would rather have a kind". This means that Star Wars movies have jumped out of the fun of heroic epics, and have truly begun to compose and praise the power of the masses.
Luke's collapse lacked the groundwork
for "Star Wars 8" to applaud people, who like to use the term-not broken, not standing. Without breaking the myth of the old hero, the monument of the new hero cannot be established. However, "breaking" also has techniques for breaking. In the author's opinion, Star Wars fans are not simply saddened by the obliteration of the legend of the Big Three, but are deeply dissatisfied with the rudeness of the obliteration process.
Throughout the past and present of the Star Wars story, breakthrough and subversion are its consistent pursuit. The most classic subversion is the shocking truth of Darth Vader in "Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back": "I am your father." Since then, Star Wars has been sublimated from an old-fashioned story of confrontation between good and evil. The field uses love, trust and sincerity to save the fallen will experience.
In addition to movies, there are various surrounding novels, comics, video games, and setting books that tell the story of Star Wars, making the distant galaxy more vivid and vivid. These literary and artistic works, called "derivative universes", have broken through the old pattern even more violently, but they are still talked about by Star Wars loyalists.
The novel "Thrones Trilogy" series portrays the imperial military wizard Marshal Thrawn, and rewrites the problems with the facial makeup of the characters in the two major camps of the movie. The protagonist of the comic "Warrior of the Old Republic" turned out to be a rookie apprentice who is not very proficient in the Force, and Star Wars is no longer a story of "super people". The protagonist of the manga "Inheritance" is a descendant of the Skywalker family. His self-defeating and self-rejection are more than that of Luke in "Star Wars 8". He also witnessed the destruction of the Jedi Temple, and he chose to walk into the gray. Zone, mingled with the three religions and nine streams, and refused to accept the teachings of the Jedi.
As long as the perspective of the breakthrough is correct, Star Wars fans will also like the new setting and new story. But "Star Wars 8" broke incorrectly.
Luke's decadence is the most controversial. After watching "Star Wars 7", fans have their own guesses about the disappearance of Skywalker: Did Luke defeat the Supreme Leader Snook? Was it Luke who watched Ben Solo walk into the dark side of no return and couldn't save it? The answer revealed in "Star Wars 8" was surprising: it turned out that Luke "feeled" that his nephew was "about to" degenerate. As a result, he was obsessed with him and wanted to kill him while he was asleep. It happens that Ben Solo wakes up in time, thinking that the master is really going to kill him, and finally really triggers the dark side, and since then he becomes Kylo Ren.
The plot is difficult to convince fans. Darth Vader, who had killed countless people back then, was saved by Luke. Now that Ben Solo hasn’t hurt a single life in a minute, is Luke so scared? In addition, in "Star Wars 7", Rey saw a phantom in which a group of Ren warriors slaughtered the apprentices of the Jedi Academy, which seemed to imply that Ben Solo first fell, and then led the Ren warriors to destroy the Jedi Academy. Now "Star Wars 8" tells you that the illusions are not counted, and the destruction of the Jedi Academy is purely due to Luke's death in the first place.
When movie fans reasoned about the whole story based on the existing information, "Star Wars 8" actually invalidated the clues left before for this unexpected "break". No clue means no preparation, no preparation means insufficient reason, and insufficient reason means that movie fans do not approve of such story processing.
"Batman vs. Superman", which had been caught in a word-of-mouth turmoil before, encountered a similar embarrassment. The theater release version has compressed the length of the film, and many ins and outs are not explained, so that the confrontation between Batman and Superman is unclear. The director’s cut version added more detailed fragments and perfected the reason for the war, which allowed the film’s reputation to rise. So I'm not afraid of how your "Star Wars 8" will be subverted. I'm afraid that you don't clearly explain the incentives and context behind the subversion, so that fans can only be dumbfounded: the dignified Jedi master Luke Skywalker is so embarrassing?
Mark Hamill, the actor of Luke, pointed out this problem in an interview. He expressed dissatisfaction with the portrayal of Luke in "Star Wars 8", so he could only make up a story for Luke during the performance to rationalize the image of the elderly Luke. We know that in the process of acting, actors often take the initiative to compose a story of their own imagination for the role, in order to figure out the character's personality and mentality, and better integrate into the role. But for the audience, they don't know what story Hamill has made up. Hamill may have persuaded himself, but the fans only found that Luke in "Star Wars 8" hardly inherited the image of Luke portrayed by "Star Wars 6". Where is the reason for this image gap, and no one has given them a credible reason. This is why some fans think, "This is not the Luke I imagined".
Face-slapped audiences are actually not too addicted to
"Star Wars 8", which destroyed the foreshadowing of "Star Wars 7", not only in Luke's Seclusion and Ben Solo's Fall. At least two big suspense were forcibly terminated. What is the background of Rey, who has the potential of powerful force? Sorry, Rey doesn't have any extraordinary life experience, just a poor girl who was sold to slave owners by poor parents for drinking. How sacred is Snook, the supreme leader? Sorry, he is not sacred at all, Kylo Ren made a sneak attack, and he immediately lost his life.
The background of "Star Wars 7" is set 30 years after "Star Wars 6". "Star Wars 7" director J.J. Abrams set the tone for the new Star Wars trilogy, called "Deja Vu". There are still two factions in the galaxy facing each other, and the image of this force is almost directly inherited from the empire and the rebels in the main story. After a batch of new old people appeared on the stage, several major suspense surfaced. As usual, these questions will be slowly answered in the sequel and other surrounding literary works.
But the idea of "Star Wars 8" seems to be that instead of solving the suspense, it is better to destroy the suspense. For Star Wars fans, uncovering the suspense is not only an answer, but also requires that the answer conforms to the inherent legend and unrestrained imagination of Star Wars. But the reason for Luke's frustration is not fully explained, and Rey's life experience is not legendary at all. Snook is laid out as a "final BOSS" character, but it seems that he is just a trivial character.
"Star Wars 8"'s biggest face fight against "Star Wars 7" came from the seemingly promising ending. Several slave children told the story of Luke fighting the First Army alone, implying that after Luke sacrificed himself, he truly retained the "single fire" of the resistance organization and the Jedi. However, judging from the plot of Han Solo's emphasis on the Jedi in "Star Wars 7" that the Jedi is a real existence, the deeds of Luke in the original trilogy have already gone through 30 years later in "Star Wars 6." He destroyed the Death Star, defeated the Sith, and helped build a new republic. Which achievement is not more shocking than single-handedly against the First Army? Abrams thought that such a wonderful deed would become a legend, but Johnson felt that Luke could extol the Milky Way by frightening the First Legion.
This shows that "Star Wars 8" not only overthrew the heroic image of the original characters, but also eliminated the important clues laid out by "Star Wars 7", and even negated the era positioning of "Star Wars 7". It seems that "Star Wars 8" and even the following Star Wars movies are reluctant to be bound by the traditional opening of "Star Wars 7", so we should quickly clear up the more important questions left by "Star Wars 7". This caused "Star Wars 8" and "Star Wars 7" to look like a continuation from the story, but the creative spirit is contrary to each other. The story elements of "Star Wars 7" are like the resistance organization in "Star Wars 8," being driven to extinction, leaving a core element that can reorganize the story is called "new hope."
Perhaps from the perspective of being unbreakable, the subsequent Star Wars movies have a broader creative space. But the most fascinating part of the "Star Wars" series is precisely the space epic chapter after another. Coherence plays a central role here. So Abrams' "Star Wars 7" may be criticized for not letting go, but it is always regarded as a new beginning of the legend. Now it is defined as a black history of failure due to "Star Wars 8", and has since been in an awkward position in the Star Wars movie system. This is why some fans believe that "Star Wars 8 is a good story in terms of story, but it is not a good Star Wars story."
Why did the two directors fight with gods?
From the collapse of the hero's character to the cutting off of the story clues, what finally exposed is the fatal problem in the creation of the new Star Wars movie: there is no overall planning.
"Star Wars" itself is a personal adult fairy tale of George Lucas. From the original trilogy in the 70s and 80s to the prequel trilogy at the beginning of this century, the story was planned by Lucas himself. In 2012, Disney acquired Lucasfilm, and the new movie after that is "Mickey Mouse" who has the right to speak.
Abrams believes that "Star Wars 7" taking the retro route is a good start, which undoubtedly won Disney's approval. And if Johnson wants to "play breakthrough", Disney must give the green light. In fact, "retro" and "breakthrough" are not all-or-nothing contradictions, but someone needs to ensure that the two stories do not "fight with gods" from the height of overall planning. There is a department called "Story Group" within Lucasfilm, whose responsibility is to ensure that the content of various Star Wars works does not conflict with each other. But their right to speak is probably only enough to control the main creations of novels, comics, and animations, and cannot surpass film directors.
Disney did not find another person to assume the coordinating responsibility. It is not known whether it personally went to the battle. Anyway, the end result is "the strong man with broken arm": the "breakthrough" of "Star Wars 8" was done, but "Star Wars 7" was sacrificed. Now-"Star Wars 7" once brought new imaginative directions for Star Wars fans, almost completely meaningless. Among the major sci-fi IPs, Star Wars is unmatched in the implementation of continuity, but now it has burst out of an out-of-control creative spirit tear. This is why fans criticized, "Dass Mitch will ruin Star Wars".
Note
1 Sith, an organization opposed to the Jedi, can be simply understood as a group of bad guys who know the Force.
2 Darth Vader, the folk nickname "Black Warrior", is not one of the most famous villains in the history of Star Wars.
3 Galactic Civil War, that is, the war between the Rebels and the empire in the main story trilogy.
4 In "Star Wars 8", Princess Leia did not sacrifice. But considering that the actor Kelly Fisher has passed away, the official said that he will not use CG to restore the character, so it is certain that Princess Leia in "Star Wars 9" will have almost no role.
The following paragraph is the reason why the box office of "Star Wars 8" is poor that the editor asked me to add. I really didn’t think I would criticize Star Wars for "poor imagination"...
The threshold is high. Star Wars movies are not very "friendly" to ordinary audiences. The new Star Wars movie completely inherits the stories and settings of the past six movies, and some important concepts unique to Star Wars will not take time to introduce. However, audiences who are unfamiliar with the old movies will not be able to understand the background and basis of the new movie's unfolding story. The first Star Wars movie was released in 1977. In order to understand the new movie, there were not many audiences who took the initiative to "tutorial" the movie 40 years ago.
Poor imagination. Star Wars is a monument in the history of movie special effects, but with the advancement of technology, today's heavyweight productions with magnificent visual scenes abound. The Rising Star Wars movie failed to show the imagination ahead of the times as it did in the past, and the special effects scene did not break through. Chinese audiences who have opened their eyes in the intensive bombing of Hollywood blockbusters and even breakthroughs in domestic film technology do not have the need to specifically favor Star Wars.
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