DrDre said:
These are the rules of the Star Wars universe.There are no rules - more like guidelines!
Each movie is its own individual thing. Each movie needs to tell its own fairy tale in isolation. The director and the writer need that freedom of expression.
We’ve had the Star Wars ‘man on a mission’ movie, and in days to come we may well have the Star Wars ‘western’, the Star Wars ‘gangster movie’, etc
The fans that don’t enjoy The Last Jedi seem to have a problem with grasping this. They don’t like the creative freedom, which is an essential part of movie making. They want ‘rules’, they don’t want guidelines. But that would be a stagnant environment for creativity, a walled garden where the same elements are recycled over and over.
Let’s look again with an open mind at the original three movies, and realise that despite the Special Edition’s attempt to ‘homogenise’ them and unify the logo design, the poster art, and the fx… that they are not the same. Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, and Return Of The Jedi are three VERY different films, in every measurable way.
The Kubrickian Star Wars, the lush humanist romance of Empire Strikes Back, and the Roger Moore era Bond big set pieces and broad gags of Jedi.
So I would say to Star Wars fans… allow difference. Embrace it. Loosen up about rules. Do not fear change. Allow each new director their creative vision. And you might just find yourself enjoying the ride!
I’m fine with difference, but I dislike inconcistency especially if it undermines the main themes underlying the previous films. If one movie says Superman can fly, and then the next film says Superman can fly except on Tuesdays, even though we saw him flying on Tuesdays in the last one, that’s an inconsistency, and not the sort of creativity I’m looking for. Star Wars is big universe, that has existed for four decades, and for most of that time most of the material released have been guided by a set of rules created by it’s creator George Lucas. Sure, you can expand on it, or bent the rules a bit, but to just ignore them, and do your own thing? That’s not Star Wars to me. The themes that you need to work hard to achieve a state of enlightenment, to be able to master these powers, to resist the temptation of the dark side, are essential parts of Star Wars for me. Without those it becomes an empty spectacle, where the only things that define Star Wars are Empire versus rebels, a bunch of cool ships, and some super powered individuals wielding lightsabers. I’ll pass on that.