TavorX said:
What I DO have an issue with is that Rey has very little conflict character wise. Her fast Jedi leveling-up would be fine if she had stronger inner conflict.Agreed.
One of my main issues with TLJ is Rey’s character. She doesn’t actually go through any training, nor does the movie focus on her personal journey / inner struggles. Most of her time she spends just trying to get through to Luke and Kylo. Thus we are left at the end with a pretty bland protagonist heading in to the THIRD MOVIE, which is a shame because it feels like such a wasted opportunity for what could have been a really cool character.Abrams didn’t do much better with her in TFA, but the first 10 minutes or so where she is introduced on Jakku - I thought that was a great introduction for the character. In fact, for me that’s really the only section in any of the Disney SW movies that feels like “Star Wars.” It features really solid, visual storytelling and we learn a lot about Rey in just a few short minutes. (John Williams’ theme here adds a lot as well).
There’s a screenwriting guru who says this is the generic bad female script example. Female protagonist spends 120 pages trying to solve everyone else’s problems. Generic bad male script example is the spy or action type where everyone is double crossing or triple crossing each other and trying to kill each other. There’s that in TLJ too.
Just a terrible script. I wonder who mostly wrote or signed off on it?
I still can’t believe that Lawrence Kasdan was involved in helping write TFA. He did such a great job with Indiana Jones and Empire and Jedi of the OT. I was really excited that he was involved in TFA. But what we got was crap. I’m hoping he did a real good job on the Solo movie. I also hope in the extras on the Solo Blu-Ray that they show and discuss what was the problem with the original directors. I believe I read that Kasdan didn’t like what he was seeing with I’m guessing the dailies or something.