How does the story of Star Wars continue?
Editor's note: "Star Wars 8" has not received good reviews in the Chinese film market. Although "this is not an excellent commercial film for most viewers", the new sequence is remarkable in terms of conceiving a new political balance, reflecting on individual heroism and even female leaders.
Around "Star Wars 8", there have been several strange trends-universal praise from film critics; controversy in the fan circle, the fanaticism of ordinary fans in North America for national movies; and the disorder in the Chinese market (by a romantic comedy It's been flattened, so far it has just passed 200 million). For this film, the old Star Wars narrative method is continued, but the story structure of the three-act drama is changed. There is no clear drama climax, but a complete narrative that is crossed by several groups of conflicting events and three narrative lines. . However, the text space of commercial films is relatively limited, which makes the content of the work a little more complicated. This is also the reason why films are boring for non-fan audiences.
Let me start by saying that for most viewers, this is not an excellent commercial film. But for those interested in the Star Wars system, this film still has a lot to talk about. Compared with "The Force Awakens", it almost copied the model of "New Hope". Compared with the conservative predecessors, this film has a lot of things. Big things are broken.
Star Wars and Medieval Knight Novels
One of the first breakthroughs in this film is the reflection on the faith and organization of the Jedi. For Jedi's one-dimensional two-body philosophy, the balance of the force in the absolute sense is always in a dynamic state, and even often not reachable. This view is also very common in metaphysics or ontological discourses in the Axis Age.
This leads to a motion model similar to a spring -when you start obsessing over the dark side, the negative side of the dark side begins to show up, and some kindness in your heart will cause your dark obsessions to be shaken, such as Kyloren By killing his patriarchal Han Solo, he sacrificed himself as a whole to the dark side of the Force, and proved that he could be close to the "Black Lord" he imagined, proving that he could be as powerful as Darth Vader. But killing his father Han Solo did not completely bathe himself in the dark scabs. On the contrary, this event flickered in the heart like a ghost, making himself anxious and shaken; "The Force Awakens" brought the samurai group to snooker Loyalty and cold-blooded, several times of connection with Rey’s Force and Snooker’s suspicion, this softened their hearts a little, and even gained ignorant trust with each other, which also led to the final killing of Snooker, Rey He even pinned his hopes to Kailoren's letting go for a short time, and Kailoren actually hoped that Rey would join him in the cause of the First Legion. So there was a very dramatic conflict and reconciliation. Two different people representing the bright side and the dark side ended up silently moving from their own abstract prescriptiveness to their own concrete negation. The extreme dual value produced an inexplicable reconciliation. Until the two sides reached the balance of the Force, they hurriedly parted ways.
Obviously, Rey has also gone through such a process. When you are obsessed with the bright side, the dark side will warmly crawl from behind the force and touch your cheek. After "The Force Awakens", he came to find Luke with the hope of the rebels, hoping to get his own teaching. When Luke asked her why she had come, she used a bright reason—to prevent the hegemony of the First Army for the cause of the Resistance. This grand narrative finally came to its own negation . In the blank space between the individual and the resistance army, a seemingly unimportant idea emerged, so the grand narrative moved to its own negation—seeking one’s own parental status and one’s own life experience. . During the brief few days that Rey was in Luke, she believed in the bright side, and when she felt the force under Luke's guidance, she slipped directly to the edge of the dark cave of the force, causing Luke to panic. And she later entered the cave and touched the sign of the dark side with her own hands, also in order to find herself and her parents' life experience. In the process of the Force FaceTime (referring to a video call) with Kailuoren several times, from the first dagger to the strange empathy for Kailuoren, so that when Luke peeped at the touch of the two, Furious hysterically.
In this unified dualistic philosophy, the common mythological setting methods and metaphysical discourses actually run through the prequel trilogy . The prequel trilogy still focuses on Anakin’s personal anxiety, self-doubt, and the division of the subject to find a breakthrough point in the drama contradiction, but this Star Wars puts this thing in the position of the motif, which is convenient for Luke’s shaping. It is such a logic. In the Old Canon History of Star Wars (EU), after "Return of the Jedi" , Luke became the most complete Force sensitive ever, a great Jedi knight, almost a spiritual leader for the founding history of the New Republic, with The most complete form of Force training moves toward the master, and the power even tears away terrible things like star destroyers or black holes. The history of Star Wars should have ended here. This is also the end that many fans love to see. However, after the new official history was thrown out by Disney, Luke’s image made many fans find it unacceptable. Luke would also doubt himself, and his heart would also be fragile. The understanding of the Force and Jedi beliefs even required the status of heroic spirits. Master Da came to remind. But as "The Last Jedi", this absolute protagonist who seems to have few scenes, his own inner development is actually a microcosm of the most conflicting subject of the Star Wars. From this point of view, at the beginning of the New Republic, Luke actively joined the WTO to participate in the innovative Jedi Order, and inherited the philosophy and his own practice of Master Yoda from "The Empire Strikes Back", and began to teach the new Jedi. kid. But believing in the bright side of the Force made him terrified. He believed that the dark side of the Force that had been eliminated would continue to grow, so when he saw that as a sensitive person of the Force, Kyloren (also called Ben Solo at the time) might be Kissed by the dark side, he appeared from the negative of the bright side at that moment, and wanted to defend the bright side by killing people. Although Luke’s master cultivation level prevented him, his obsession with the bright side actually breeds. The dark side of itself is even violent. The final outcome was counterproductive. Kailoren, who was still on the bright side and looking dark, was pushed directly into the darkness by this move, and fell into the invisible abyss of Luke.
This move caused Luke to doubt the faith of the Jedi , because in the balance of the force of his faith, the darkness in the light and the shadow appeared, so that he suspended the Jedi classics representing the inheritance with fear of the negative side. , Live in seclusion and want to interrupt the inheritance of the Jedi. This is the most important meaning of the title "The Last Jedi", mainly referring to the end of this inheritance system .
A similar phenomenon is also reflected in the Anakin of the prequel trilogy. Anakin saw the death of his wife Padmé in the negative prophecy of The Force, and because her mother also died after this prophecy. Anakin had doubts about his own belief in the Force, and when he was consulting Master Yoda, Master Yoda gave a set of general expositions in Zhuangzi's "Human World", and believed that life and death are only during the operation of the Force. An inevitable natural event should not be endowed with sorrow and joy, and as a Jedi Knight should ensure his own peace and familiarity with the balance of the Force. This view is very clever and detached, but it did not solve Anakin's problem. On the contrary, it created a gap in the balance of the Force. In addition, due to the inherited patriarchal clan system, the Jedi Council could not fully recognize the young Anakin. , Especially the name of the master that made him very entangled. After several petitions to prove that he was rejected. In fact, Anakin was silently pushed to Palpatine's side in terms of faith and politics, although he was still resisting on the bright side. Of course, in the end, Anakin went to the dark side for love, and when he entered the darkness and fell into a struggle, the real fuse that finally led to the death of his wife (Padme lost his life after giving birth due to Anakin’s own actions). The idea of going down) was his own depravity instead, so in order to defend the Jedi who fell in love, his wife’s fall due to his depravity in the end was a manifestation of an undesirable knight novel.
As one of the two major space opera systems, Star Wars is actually similar to medieval knight novels such as "Roland's Song" in many scenarios -the glory of faith and the cause of justice. The tension between human love and reality is The main dramatic contradiction unfolds. The Jedi set as the armed forces of the order is more like telling the age of European lords in the Middle Ages on the scale of the galaxy. As discussed above, Anakin's fall is not a pure self-fall. The rigidity and the natural defects of the armed groups organized by the sacred narrative are also important drivers of Anakin's fall. This matter was not too obvious in the prequel trilogy. In "The Last Jedi", it unfolded through the mirroring event of Kyloren and proposed a set of reflections.
And this reflective change is also very fun. The separation between the original trilogy, the prequel trilogy and the new official history trilogy itself is only caused by Lucasfilm’s shooting and investment plans, and the different teams. Naturally separated, the interlacing of the three works is not entirely subjective, but accidental. But when this work proposes this kind of reflection, the separation and discontinuity of the three series has turned into a continuous narrative. For example, the personal philosophy of Master Yoda was not happy or sad in the prequel, and the saint of all things and virtues-after the fall of Anakin, the main story provided a lot of concern for Luke’s personal growth and the secular world that balances the force of the force. Interpretation-when I mention Luke’s broad and forward-looking attitude in this work, the classics will be destroyed, and the inheritance will end, but the Jedi faith will always be in the present, and there will inevitably be new ones. Start.
The Dilemma of the New Republic: After the Revolution
Secondly, let's talk about the second aspect, which is also the second meaning of "The Last Jedi"-the disappearance of the Jedi as a spiritual leader and the birth of a new Jedi business. On the whole, the supporting novels of "The Force Awakens" have limited introduction to the current situation of the New Republic. But it also basically introduced the dilemma of the new republic after the collapse of the old empire. The New Republic is still back to the logic of the parliamentary republic , but it faces many problems. After the destruction of the old empire’s hegemony, there are a large number of planets that cannot be actually controlled in the territory of the new empire, and there are a large number of local armed forces that originally belonged to the united front of the resistance. The body of the new parliament also includes the old aristocracy largely Republic, who is also a member of parliament in the Sith Empire, the New Republic and they still did not fall. This is the same as the gentry after the establishment of the Jiupin Official Person Law in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. The regime may change, but those in power must share the world with the noble families, such as the Hongnong Yang family, the Longxi Li family, and the Qinghe Cui family. The Northern gentry or Wupu, Hebei, the regime changed a lot, but this group of people must participate in governance. The situation is similar in the New Republic, and these nobles are actually repulsive towards the participation of leaders of various insurgents in politics. This is why Princess Leia did not go to the mother star to be the chairperson, and the size of the troops led by them was smaller than that of the main story. A lot. And the New Republic is still the dominant mode of inherited the old empire, in order to Republican ideas did not use strong standing army and high-handed policy, Empire brightest memory in a large number of armed (in this Part of this work most Houlai Ya princess for help plot can be seen) in Each entrenched area has formed its own base and local autonomous system.
And these gaps in the ruling blank form what Kazanstein calls a porous political space , which is also the reason why the remnants of the Empire, the First Legion, can turn over. Even when Kyloren tried to invite Rey to join, the reason provided was to "establish a ruling order." I am afraid that although the organization of the First Army acts as a simple villain due to the need of the plot, if the text is a little fictional, it may be that many areas especially admire the order established by the remnants of the empire-at least the drunken fans in the film. The capitalist planet must particularly like it. The military of the Old Republic relied heavily on the Jedi Order. In the war between the prequel and the trade alliance, the Jedi Order not only had partial diplomatic autonomy, but it only obeyed the Parliament in name (but not listened to the announcement) and military command. And coordination resources are also very powerful. In the early days of the trade alliance war, the Old Republic did not even have a very decent standing army, and the Jedi Knights played a very large military effect. It was even more obvious during the Clone Wars, when the Jedi Knights infiltrated almost all military levels as commanders. Of course, the parliament was out of the imperial ambitions of Palpatine, the Sith monarch, and the parliament-Jedi Knights’ dual system came to an end. The parliament with a standing army on hand, under the instigation of careerists, and most of the Republic’s nobles Under the evil of our banality (not all the nobles of the Republic, a small number of them are still loyal to the Republic and participated in the organization of the rebels), the old Republic was defeated in this way.
Of course, according to the supporting novels such as "Aftermath" and "The Force Awakens", the reign of the New Republic before the Jaku War itself was led by the leader of the rebel army (Mon Mothma) as the leader of the republic's parliament during the war. The regional divisions of galaxies include core galaxies, inner ring galaxies and outer ring galaxies. After the Jaku War, the remnants of the empire were forced to cease fire, the new republic established a rotating republic, and the republican assembly rejected Leia and others who had regional armed forces, but the remnants of the empire in the outer ring galaxy were breeding, which is mentioned above. The "white space" of the first legion rises. The only people that the New Republic can conscript are Leia and other warlords who have the legitimacy given by the parliament.
It is a pity that the new republic with unstable foundations is even a low-profile version of the old republic . In the old canonical history (EU), Luke is almost a figure like the protector of the country and a spiritual leader. The ruling order of the new republic is largely dependent on Lu. Ke trains a new Jedi Knight regiment. And the failure of this matter made the foundation of the New Republic weak. Even if the home star was not bombarded by the First Legion with the Death Star plug-in, it would not be able to sustain it in all likelihood. This makes the princes of the original rebel sequence the only force that the New Republic can mobilize. And this one, it really reflects the dilemma that production for the rebel troops raised face, can not stand wasting war, war can mobilize scarce resources, the existence of the base had a few, in "The Force Awakens" basically relies on the dedication of individual heroes.
After showing this dilemma, this movie actually made another breakthrough in heavy star wars- anti-individual heroism . Whether it is Podameron’s blind action military strategy or Finn’s hot offensive mind, this film has experienced a complete failure. Even the tragic victory at the beginning directly led to the military dilemma behind the Resistance. This personal hero model, all the tactics that he thought of during the period when he was pursued by the First Army Fleet, and all the tactics that caused the soldiers to betray, all proved that its main negative effect. The protagonist’s rebel routines began to retreat , and Star Wars began to shape the leader’s tolerance, decision-making ability, and magnanimous tolerance. This turned the rebel army from a flat symbol into a literary reality. The specific organization and strict organizational discipline and operational structure are still very thin, but this is a major improvement. From the perspective of feminist criticism, the setting of Star Wars criticized to a certain extent the "masculinity" of neoliberal feminist criticism in the 1980s, including the righteous stunners and patriarchs who were encouraged in literature. Image. In addition, he has made a certain exploration of the temperament and literary image of female leaders. On the whole, even the literary films are extremely patriarchal in the portrayal of strong women. They believe that strong women must have a disorderly emotional heart, so there is a point of contradiction. It becomes a contradiction between social image and self-control; thinks that strong women have a certain neurotic habit (the most intuitive is most of the strong women I portray in urban romantic dramas); or it exaggerates the ritualized resistance of women to patriarchy There is no kernel. Hollywood began with the fourth wave (contemporary wave) due to feminist criticism, and formed the self-censorship of film creation, but many times there are still flaws. Because of the historical support, "Women's Participants" does not appear to appear. thin. Many of the films in which the model worker participated have indeed made a great contribution to the transformation of female roles, but due to the remnants of male power in the screenwriting industry or the limited narrative space of commercial films, no further exploration of the role content was given.
Although "Star Wars 8" is still weak, it provides some ideas. The female leaders here have content, and Princess Leia won't talk about it. Among them, when Leia was ill, General Jordo, acting as the chief official, possessed the authority and personality of a leader (when faced with Podameron’s questioning), as well as excellent military rationality and battlefield decision-making ability (its If the arranged escape strategy has not been leaked by Finn’s blind move pig teammates, it should be a very cost-effective strategy) and possess strong self-control and leadership skills (this is especially true when subordinates begin to question their decision-making persistence, and For the confidential arrangement of military decision-making), there is the tolerance of the leader (the military apostasy of Podameron, General Jordo has tolerated it to a large extent, and he did not even entrust Leia with the important task after the fall) and a sense of responsibility. Even in the end, he had to take the initiative to stay behind the cruiser, and the image of a tough leader emerged spontaneously . In the end, he sacrificed himself and died with the Star Destroyer of the First Corps, and achieved the glory of a military chief. Let’s not talk about whether the dedication of the military chief is in line with your and my political and philosophical stance. Here), but in terms of literary effects alone, this image as a whole is a breakthrough and establishes a political logic for female leaders after gender equality.
Therefore, as a commercial film, Star Wars can only be said to be an excellent industrial product, and it will not take into account many other things at the same time as commercial insurance, and it will also make ordinary audiences feel boring. But as far as the world view of Star Wars is concerned, you can take a look at the interesting details of the changes.
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