I couldn't go to the cinema during the epidemic last year, so I watched Star Wars 1-9. The first 6 movies were fascinated, and the last 3 movies were extremely embarrassing. I fearlessly paid tribute to the classics to play old stalks. read it. Wrote an article "The Star Wars series that fell off the cliff".
Every time I watch a new film in the series, I start with the first film in the series, and of course it's limited to ten films or less. Like more than 20 movies in the Marvel Avengers series, it is impossible to review them. Like the Star Wars series, 3 prequels, 3 main stories, 3 postquels, 2 side stories, a total of 11 films can still be watched all over again, and each of them is not very long. I think it was possible to finish the Lord of the Rings trilogy in one day, and the Hobbit trilogy in one day. These six movies are very long and long epic movies. The Star Wars series is not like the magical historical drama of The Lord of the Rings, nor the hardcore sci-fi of Interstellar, which, as its creator Lucas calls it, is a space opera.
The three original films produced in the 1970s and 1980s, although the picture quality is poor and the martial arts movements are incoherent, they have the qualities of excellent movies and great movies. The brain hole is big enough to put disputes and wars in space, spaceships with different shapes, Millennium Falcons, X-fighters, Tie-fighters, various high-performance robots, R2D2, C3PO, dazzling weapons of war, laser swords, Laser cannons, Death Stars, Stormtroopers, various high-tech technologies, holographic projection, light-speed flight, human freezing, and the mysterious force of the original force, these series of factors have brought together an unprecedented picture to the world. In this film background, a qualified story is enough, but the story is not bad, revolving around a theme of oppression and resistance, and successfully shaped the image of the Iron Triangle (Luke, Lia, Solo).
The original trilogy produced in the early part of this century is a very successful prequel film, which can be well connected to the main story, and also cleverly tells the story in the prequel, for example, the historical reversal in the main story. : "I am your father", which has been arranged in detail. The success of the prequel is largely due to the setting of the story, which tells that the Chosen Son Anakin Skywalker will become the suffocating Darth Vader, and it is easy to succeed in telling the story of the fall. Another advantage of the prequel is that it builds a more comprehensive world view, a prosperous and declining republic, a democratic parliament with ancient Roman colors, a Jedi Presbyterian system, a smoother lightsaber duel, and CG technology is applied to more wars The scene has shaped a larger Star Wars world. In the same way, in the strong movie background, the role of the mission is also brilliant, Anakin, Padmé, Obi-Wan, Yoda, in a few years you will not remember what Star Wars said, but you will not forget Lightsaber, Jedi, Force.
The sequel trilogy produced in recent years is just finished, and many plots have been forgotten. It is also a brand acquired by Disney, the Avengers is very good, and the restart of Star Wars can be said to be a failure. From the storyline, there is no need to restart the filming, because it has been made clear in the original trilogy, whether it is the son of the gods, Anakin Skywalker or Sisdar Svader, they will finally bring the force with them. Come to balance, the story of Skywalker can come to an end. In this sense, the six prequels are a complete Skywalker saga. After the trilogy, the world collapsed again, the first order, the evil army, the star killer planet, the resurrection of Palpatine, etc., under the banner of Skywalker, the denial of the two generations of Skywalker. Judging from the movie experience, there are ubiquitous tributes to the original trilogy, and even repeating the father-son meme. The trio of the story (Rey, Bo, Finn) do not have any image memory, especially Bo and Finn, the characters have no heart, contradictions and growth, and Rey is the promoter of the story, what people remember is only Ben Solo, both good and evil. Although the post-pass has a bigger picture and a more dazzling shape, the large-scale plagiarism of the original makes the movie even more fragmented.
The failure of the sequel does not deny the brilliance of the Star Wars series. The original trilogy is enough to make the Star Wars series become glorious. The prequel trilogy, which is both independent and in line with the original, makes the Star Wars world more complete and plump. The continuation of the dog's tail can be seen as a realization of feelings.
Recently, I was reading Disney Chairman and CEO Robert Iger's autobiography "The Journey of a Lifetime", and turned to the most interesting part, acquiring Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm.
The acquisition of Pixar has revitalized Disney Animation, and the acquisition of Marvel has brought huge market revenue to Disney. After the acquisition, Pixar and Marvel are still good films. At the time of the acquisition, there were high-quality projects that were being planned and promoted, and the follow-up continued to enrich. Iger's creativity has greatly increased the width of Disney's films, especially Iger's proud launch of two non-mainstream hero films "Black Panther" and "Captain Marvel", which were very successful.
But the acquisition of Lucasfilm only acquired the IP of Star Wars. At the time of acquisition, only the outline of the story that Lucas hurriedly wrote was finally abandoned. The Star Wars trilogy, led by JJ Abrams, has almost no new elements other than paying tribute to the classics.
The IP of a movie, like a system, is a process of continuous entropy increase. Without the injection of new elements and information, it will eventually lead to chaos and death. The original Star Wars is undoubtedly great. The prequel trilogy has injected more ideas such as democracy, centralization, emotion, and resistance, and it is also qualified and excellent. By the end of the sequel trilogy, there is no negative entropy inflow, as the film says, the Galactic Republic eventually goes to chaos.
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