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Post #1072056

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Disco_Lobot
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Ranking the Star Wars films
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Date created
1-May-2017, 6:17 PM

yotsuya said:

TV’s Frink said:

I just ran across this (in fact I haven’t watched it) so I’m not making any judgements about what it says.

http://www.avclub.com/article/time-has-come-pit-rogue-one-and-force-awakens-agai-254577

Star Wars movies are so mythic and overexposed it’s hard to find a nice, quiet, sober critical analysis of them—away from the hubbub of their release spectacles or the weight of the vast lore bearing down on them. Lessons From The Screenplay attempts to do just that in a new video, applying classic screenwriting principles to Rogue One and The Force Awakens in order to determine what works and what doesn’t in the franchise’s latest installments. The answer is: a little bit of both.

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsIQa7sH5_Y

Good analysis of the female leads, but quite misses the mark by not exploring the other main characters. Some of the failings of one character are made up for by the well done aspects of others. And he falls for the lie that telling is always bad. Telling is sometimes more expedient for story telling when you want to cram a lot into a short space. He also puts all his eggs into the characters and fails to address the plot of the two movies. A very good assessment of Jyn and Rey, but not a very good overall assessment of the two films.

He also ignores the fact that Jyn later becomes active and Rey passive.