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Post #1259876

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Master Lawdog
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Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker - Discussion * SPOILER THREAD *
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14-Dec-2018, 12:11 PM

pleasehello said:

Anakin Starkiller said:

nevertheless I don’t think it’ll be an issue as Rian didn’t stray too far from TFA’s style to begin with.

Actually, I was very confused as to why people acted like the arguably out-of-place humor of TLJ was new. To me, it was just a continuation of the sometimes borderline parody tone of TFA. Totally seamless.

Yeah both film have comedy, but not all comedy is the same. The comedy in TLJ was noticeably different to me.

The Abrams and Kasdan team understood how to write dialogue and especially comedy that is more consistent with the OT, which borrows heavily from old Hollywood and especially the screwball comedies of that era. By comparison, many of The Last Jedi’s dialogue and comedic moments are less quick-fire screwball banter and more rooted in more recent popular culture (crank calls, your mama jokes, literally brushing-it-off; some of the jokes felt like modern memes) and stuck out to me immediately.

All film is subjective.