If it worked for Empire Strikes Back and Revenge of the Sith with their comparatively darker moods, I see no reason it wouldn’t work for The Last Jedi. I’ll go so far as to say having to change the music to fit a darker mood is a lazy way out in creating that mood.
Nope, in cinema you establish the mood through music.
Music is of course a part of it, but using it to beat me over the head with what I’m supposed to be feeling is lazy. Especially eight movies in, changing it just to set a different mood would be lazy, because it’s so easy to do. It wouldn’t take anything on the filmmaker’s part to set that mood, all they’d do is subvert audience expectations. Just look at the crawl of Empire (https://youtu.be/lGsAxG0r9wQ), it opens with the familiar score but then quite naturally transitions into something more sinister as the Star Destroyer sends its probes, all coming together to set the tone. They could have started with the music cues that go along with the Star Destroyer, but they were just as effectively able to transition into it.
The tone and music should go hand-in-hand. It’s not a lazy technique and has existed since sound was used on films. Having a music that is in opposition with the mood of the picture will feel out of place.
Dare I say setting the crawl to more sinister, “darker” music would conflict with the mood and be out of place?
It will become more like an opera and less like cerebral cinema, which I think ‘Star Wars’ also has the capacity to be.
Star Wars will never be some art-house, experimental film, so I’m not sure what this is saying. You seem to be insinuating opera cannot be cerebral, which is silly to me, all you have to do is watch Amadeus. And if you’re also saying that in order to be cerebral cinema, music must fit what’s happening on-screen, I point you to A Clockwork Orange.
Again I say, do not mean to disrespect anyone here. Just sharing my opinion as a cinema lover.
As am I, but nothing can be posted on this forum uncontested. All in fun.