“First comes the day
Then comes the night.
After the darkness
Shines through the light.
The difference, they say,
Is only made right
By the resolving of gray
Through refined Jedi sight.”
―Journal of the Whills
or the dropped quote from Star Wars perhaps
"… And in the time of greatest
despair there shall come a savior,
and he shall be known as:
THE SON OF THE SUNS."
-Journal of the Whills
Straight away this builds something… I would advocate the use of this passage it’s quite beautiful.
That temple on top of the rock on Jedha is the “Temple of the Whills” If this group or institution went about chronicling the history of the Jedi then it would be cool to learn what is relevant about it.
As far as stylistic format departure goes we now are heading for “Like any other movie would do it” bog standard so if you want / need labels on stuff. To me it’s not been thought through well enough to convey the information well enough to avoid the labels. It’s a small but very significant loss in how one should tell a Star Wars Story.
Whats next? “Memento Star Wars” tell it in reverse chronological order?
When they said Rogue one won’t have an opening crawl they should have also added it will have captions for the planets do away with the wipes and the the format will be nothing like how Star Wars is normally. Get rid of A long time ago in a galaxy far far away while you are at it. Do we really need the end credits also?
I am Joshing but I’ll site the identity crisis now and It’s due to it being complicated but I hope they can handle it better somehow at the last moment as the film does look really good.
