I stayed up late the night before to watch the premiere of the film, but after the end I had mixed feelings in my heart. I finally understood why this film stood up in the critics but fell down in the fan community - the only key word is "break and then stand" ", some people are praising the great new life, and some people are lamenting that the place is broken.
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One thing can be guaranteed, Star Wars VIII is a film worth watching. It follows the tradition and also has many innovations , especially in the scene setting and action scenes, it better continues the tonality of "The Force Awakens", like The space battle part has the taste of the old trilogy.
Although the "Star Wars style" is not acceptable to everyone, this large and vast infinite world is worth going to the theater to experience once.
If nothing else, the first appearance of the "Crait" planetary offensive and defensive battle is enough to make "The Last Jedi" famous in history, and this magnificent battle alone is worth the ticket price...
The "First Order" sent a number of AT-AT walkers and an army of "Little Death Star"-class destruction cannons to overwhelm the territory.
This is a fortress, but also a dead place. In order not to sit still while waiting for rescue, the rebels can only fight against it with crumbling old gliders.
This planet is somewhat similar to the icy Hoth star in "The Empire Strikes Back". The surface is covered with a layer of crystalline salt that looks like snow, and its land is actually red...
Imagine that the blue sky, the lonely mountain, the salt land, and the red mist, in such an environment, staged a defense battle with disparity in strength, coupled with the twists and turns of the war situation, it is definitely an epic shocking picture.
In addition, there is also a native organism adjustment environment such as "Crystal Fox" on the planet... The comprehensive look and feel experience was unimaginable before.
In fact, "The Last Jedi" has many scenes and plots that pay tribute to "The Empire Strikes Back". Forced to flee, to seek help in an unknown and unfamiliar place, the new apprentice goes to the reclusive Jedi Knight to learn from the apprenticeship, and then bravely enters the enemy alone. Camp and so on.
Of course, the film did not simply inherit the structure of the old film, but developed and reconstructed on the original basis , allowing the audience familiar with Star Wars to get some freshness while familiar with it.
Since Disney took over the Star Wars project, "change" has become the core keyword, and in "The Last Jedi", it can be said to be "revolution".
There are more (obvious) laughs in the always serious main tone, and the combination of Chobacca and "Porg" with big eyes and cute things makes it even more clear that "I want to be cute and ask for a hug" (design Yiyi back then. The Walkers weren't meant to be cute either--).
Another obvious change this time is that the "component composition" of human beings in the film has achieved unprecedented unity and integration . Africans, Latinos, and Asians all live together, and the proportion of female leaders has also reached a new high... …
"Equality" is of course a good thing, and I don't want to say clichés like "political correctness", but there is a time and a certain amount of time between forging ahead and overcorrecting, and any change cannot be accomplished overnight . It caused some discomfort to some viewers.
However, whether the above changes are suitable or not is secondary. If you do it well, it will be the icing on the cake. If you don't do it well, it will not hurt your bones. For a series of movies with a simple core like Star Wars, you don't even need to pursue the subtlety of the plot. ...but if the character design is destroyed, then everything will collapse.
Take Rey, Finn, and Poe Dameron for example, it's clear that the new series is going to make them the representatives of the younger generation of rebel leaders, but none of their performances in the film can be said to be "very good."
Rey, as a newcomer who accidentally broke into "The Galactic Enemy", was lonely but extremely talented since she was a child. In "The Force Awakens", she became addicted to the protagonist, and at the end she embarked on the right path of apprenticeship and art—— Rey's starting point is actually very low , Luke was at least taught by Obi-Wan before being trained by Master Yoda.
But Rey's progress on the isolated island is obviously too great , and she still skips levels to access advanced tutorials. This cannot be explained by a simple "innate talent"... Of course, who can say for the force, so Lei Yi's play can't be said to be broken, it's pretty decent.
In contrast, Finn feels a lot more disobedient . Obviously, at the end of the last episode, he got rid of the shadow of deserters and became a little hero. After waking up in this episode, he actually wanted to run away, or wanted to find Rey. It is possible to run away + find Rey.
After being stopped, Finn suddenly turned into the most determined and brave resistance fighters, making troubles in casinos, scolding old bosses, charging into battle, and self-sacrifice. Although it can be understood as "rapid growth", but forcibly . The traces of "Wei Guangzheng" are heavier .
As for Dameron, he collapsed completely... In "The Force Awakens", the air force captain with both wisdom and bravery was completely reduced to a ruthless, ruthless, reckless, short-sighted, brainless man in this film.
Everyone understands that all the violations, impulses, and military remonstrances are for Leia's tolerance and cultivation, and for Dameron to finally understand the way to advance and retreat, but to make Dameron's character completely different, Just for this stylized "maturity", it's really worth the loss .
There is another person I have to mention, that is Kylo Ren, who provoked the whole first order, but he has changed a lot, but it is not good or bad.
For example, Kylo Ren struggled and finally smashed his helmet - he didn't need to hide his ugliness and weakness with a helmet like his grandfather, but he did that before - and now he made up his mind and walked out of Darth Vader loomed over him, and the change deserved a high five.
However, the young "Dark Warrior" couldn't stop when his mind became alive . He said he was dark, and he didn't want to kill his mother to show that his conscience was not dead. He said he was bright, and he killed Snooker as the boss...
This kind of person who does not believe in the Jedi Knights and the dark side and finally chooses to believe in himself is the only one in the galaxy.
On the whole, the transformation of the younger generation in "The Last Jedi" can be described as mixed (somewhat), and it will not cause a violent backlash...
What really makes fans uncomfortable is the film's subversive transformation of older characters , especially Luke Skywalker.
When Rey found Luke at the end of The Force Awakens and handed him his lightsaber, we all thought there was going to be a new mentoring tale...
As a result, as soon as he came up this time, Luke threw the lightsaber... threw it... And after a while, he found out that this was not Luke's test of Rey, but that he was really disheartened and unwilling to accept apprentices .
Luke's despair is not for no reason. He wanted to rebuild the glory of the Jedi Knights, but he discovered the "infinite potential" of the dark side of Ben Solo. The misunderstanding caused by a single thought eventually led to an irreversible big mistake .
Full of regret, shame, annoyance, and discouragement, Luke chose to cut off his connection with the Force, and went to die alone on the "hardest-to-find" planet in the galaxy.
And after Rey's performance was not very "ideal", Luke was even more determined to burn the Jedi knight books and completely "end" the inheritance of the Jedi knights. When he did, he hesitated again, and Master Yoda was required to appear. Light a fire for him and help him truly understand the truth of "no breaking, no standing".
To put it bluntly, Luke Skywalker stepped down from the altar of "the legendary figure famous in the galaxy", and regressed from the original "demi-god" to a "human" with emotions, desires, pain and weaknesses. God went out of his body to complete his responsibilities, and finally became a god.
Although such a design looks fine and more in line with contemporary aesthetics, it looks weird in the "Star Wars" series, and even deviates from its usual theme.
Who is Luke? He is the son of Anakin Skywalker. He grew up slowly from a farm boy to the last Jedi Knight in the entire galaxy. He has been taught by Jedi masters such as Obi-Wan and Yoda. He is frank, sensitive, warm-blooded and sincere. , kindness, generosity, and finally become brave, determined, tenacious, and selfless, which is the core and "brightness" of the entire Star Wars trilogy.
It is difficult for such Luke to be associated with a frustrated person who is devastated when he encounters a setback. Destroying him and recasting him in such a sloppy way in the film has a kind of contempt in itself.
In fact, last year, actor Mark Hamill angered director Rian Johnson: "I almost completely disagree with every choice you make about this character."
Although Mark has apologized a while ago, this matter seems to have a mild ending... But what is the truth, we have our own limits.
The same is true of Leia. We can understand that she has lost her son, husband and other relatives one after another, and she is exhausted in the face of an unoptimistic situation. We also understand that she always has to fade out slowly and hand over opportunities and future to the next generation. ...
But the resolute, brave, beautiful, and fiery Princess Leia, apart from her current wisdom, would not "easily" lose to young people like this.
In the movie, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker have passed away. Outside the movie, Carrie Fisher, who played Leia, also appeared in the commemorative subtitles at the end of the film. No matter inside or outside the movie, an era will eventually past .
Having said so much, "feelings" are still at play... "Star Wars" is essentially a fairly classical and traditional story, and it may indeed not be suitable for the entertainment spirit of this era, and the heroes of the past will eventually leave one by one. But even so, they deserve a better curtain call.
In fact, this movie has done a good job of "creating". It has broken the theory of bloodline and fatalism, and has given every young person a stage to perform. Before the end, those children were talking about the legend of the Jedi Knight while looking up at the vast starry sky. , there was a gleam of hope in his eyes. But it's really unsatisfactory in terms of "inheritance"...
There is a saying, to the effect that to see whether a society (country) has hope, it depends on how it treats children, and whether it has conscience depends on how it treats the elderly.
This principle also applies to "The Last Jedi". It does show a new future and hope . For those who are not familiar with "Star Wars", this may be the best opportunity to enter the pit, and it does Showing the resolute arrogance and coolness , for the audience and fans who have loved Star Wars for many years, this is not a satisfactory ending in any case.
After all, the movie where Luke, Leia, and Lao Han first appeared is called "New Hope"... The way to light up the next ray of hope is not to blow out the previous candlelight first, but to use the salary The way fire is passed on, the new candles are lit, together illuminating the darkness around them before the old ones burn out.
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